PODC 2016

PODC 2016
Chicago, Illinois
July 25-29, 2016

News

See the program and the proceedings from the conference. At the conference,

• The 2016 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing went to Noga Alon, László Babai, Alon Itai, and Michael Luby.
• The 2016 Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award went to Dr. Hsin-Hao Su and Dr. Shahar Timnat  (presented at DISC 2016).
• The best paper award went to
  • Andrea Cerone and Alexey Gotsman
    Analysing Snapshot Isolation
• The best student paper award went to
  • Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Keren Censor-Hillel and Gregory Schwartzman
    A Distributed (2+ε)-Approximation for Vertex Cover in O(log(Δ)/ε log log(Δ)) Rounds
  • Arnold Filtser and Shay Solomon
    The Greedy Spanner is Existentially Optimal
• We held the Faith Ellen Celebration to celebrate the work of Faith Ellen.
• We heard great keynote lectures:
  • New Opportunities for PODC?: Massive, Volatile, but Highly Predictable Resources (slides)
    Andrew A. Chien (The University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory)
  • Concurrent Data Structures (slides)
    Faith Ellen (University of Toronto)
  • How Emerging Memory Technologies Will Have You Rethinking Algorithm Design (slides) Phillip B. Gibbons (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Scope

PODC solicits papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The common goal of the conference is to improve understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

• distributed algorithms: design, analysis, and complexity
• communication networks: algorithms, architectures, services, protocols, applications
• multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
• shared and transactional memory, synchronization protocols, concurrent programming
• fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, self-organization, self-stabilization
• codes and reliable communication
• Internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems
• dynamic, adaptive and machine learning based distributed algorithms
• distributed operating systems, middleware platforms, databases
• game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
• distributed mechanisms design
• peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, distributed data management
• high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
• wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents and robots
• context-aware distributed systems
• security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
• distributed cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols
• quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
• nanonetworks
• biological distributed algorithms
• sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
• specification, semantics, verification of concurrent systems