Seventeenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC '98)

June 28 - July 2 1998, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

PODC is a conference that focuses on research in the theory, design, specification or implementation of distributed systems. PODC is sponsored by SIGACT and SIGOPS in cooperation with EATCS and SMCC.

A picture from the PODC '98 program-committee dinner.

Important dates

January 9, 1998: Submission deadline.
March 2, 1998: Acceptance notification.
March 31, 1998: Camera-ready copy due. Instructions for authors of accepted papers
April 20, 1998: Early registration ends.
Jun 1, 1998: Regular registration ends.

On going to PODC '98 ...

Registration information for PODC '98
Hotel information
Conference program (joint with SPAA)
More information about SPAA/PODC '98
A list of papers that have been accepted for presentation in PODC '98

Major changes from previous PODCs

PODC'98 will run in parallel with SPAA'98, the Tenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, from June 28th to July 2nd with joint receptions, plenary sessions, and food breaks.

Please note that the PODC submission deadline is a little earlier than usual this year!

This year PODC especially encourages papers addressing distributed computing issues in Networking (Protocols, and Architectures), on the Internet, and the World Wide Web.

Best student paper award

This year, the best student paper award went to:
Tight Lower Bounds for Randomized Synchronous Consensus
Ziv Bar-Joseph and Michael Ben-Or

Further information

Instructions for authors of accepted papers
The call for papers
About Puerto Vallarta, pictures from Puerto Vallarta
The PODC '95, PODC '96, and PODC '97 home pages
Other related conferences and calls for papers
About research in distributed algorithms and systems
Ordering proceedings from earlier PODCs
This page is maintained by Gil Neiger (gilATacm.org)