PODC 2016 Proceedings

SESSION: Keynote Lecture 1

New Opportunities for PODC?: Massive, Volatile, but Highly Predictable Resources

  • Andrew A. Chien

SESSION: Session 1

  • Calvin Newport

A Distributed (2+ε)-Approximation for Vertex Cover in O(logδ/ε log log δ) Rounds

  • Reuven Bar-Yehuda
  • Keren Censor-Hillel
  • Gregory Schwartzman

The Greedy Spanner is Existentially Optimal

  • Arnold Filtser
  • Shay Solomon

MST in Log-Star Rounds of Congested Clique

  • Mohsen Ghaffari
  • Merav Parter

Distributed Algorithms for Planar Networks I: Planar Embedding

  • Mohsen Ghaffari
  • Bernhard Haeupler

Brief Announcement: Labeling Schemes for Power-Law Graphs

  • Casper Petersen
  • Noy Rotbart
  • Jakob Grue Simonsen
  • Christian Wulff-Nilsen

Brief Announcement: Sublinear-Space Distance Labeling Using Hubs

  • Pawel Gawrychowski
  • Adrian Kosowski
  • Przemyslaw Uznanski

Brief Announcement: Optimal Leader Election in Multi-Hop Radio Networks

  • Artur Czumaj
  • Peter Davies

Brief Announcement: The Small World of Curious Beings

  • Soroush Alamdari

SESSION: Session 2

  • Oksana Denysyuk

Analysing Snapshot Isolation

  • Andrea Cerone
  • Alexey Gotsman

Recoverable Mutual Exclusion: [Extended Abstract]

  • Wojciech Golab
  • Aditya Ramaraju

A Randomized Concurrent Algorithm for Disjoint Set Union

  • Siddhartha V. Jayanti
  • Robert E. Tarjan

Self-stabilizing Balls & Bins in Batches: The Power of Leaky Bins [Extended Abstract]

  • Petra Berenbrink
  • Tom Friedetzky
  • Peter Kling
  • Frederik Mallmann-Trenn
  • Lars Nagel
  • Christopher Wastell

Brief Announcement: Local Independent Set Approximation

  • Marijke H.L. Bodlaender
  • Magnús M. Halldórsson
  • Christian Konrad
  • Fabian Kuhn

SESSION: Session 3

  • Wojciech Golab

Deterministic Objects: Life Beyond Consensus

  • Yehuda Afek
  • Faith Ellen
  • Eli Gafni

Unbeatable Set Consensus via Topological and Combinatorial Reasoning

  • Armando Castañeda
  • Yannai A. Gonczarowski
  • Yoram Moses

A Polylogarithmic Gossip Algorithm for Plurality Consensus

  • Mohsen Ghaffari
  • Merav Parter

Noisy Rumor Spreading and Plurality Consensus

  • Pierre Fraigniaud
  • Emanuele Natale

Rational Consensus: Extended Abstract

  • Joseph Y. Halpern
  • Xavier Vilaça

Brief Announcement: A Tight Space Bound for Consensus

  • Leqi Zhu

SESSION: Keynote Lecture 2

Concurrent Data Structures

  • Faith Ellen
  • Trevor Brown

SESSION: Session 4

  • Andrea Richa

Contention Resolution on a Fading Channel

  • Jeremy T. Fineman
  • Seth Gilbert
  • Fabian Kuhn
  • Calvin Newport

Reliable Communication over Highly Connected Noisy Networks

  • Noga Alon
  • Mark Braverman
  • Klim Efremenko
  • Ran Gelles
  • Bernhard Haeupler

Contention Resolution on Multiple Channels with Collision Detection

  • Jeremy T. Fineman
  • Calvin Newport
  • Tonghe Wang

How Asynchrony Affects Rumor Spreading Time

  • George Giakkoupis
  • Yasamin Nazari
  • Philipp Woelfel

Brief Announcement: An Exponential Separation Between Randomized and Deterministic Complexity in the LOCAL Model

  • Yi-Jun Chang
  • Tsvi Kopelowitz
  • Seth Pettie

Brief Announcement: Data Dissemination in Unified Dynamic Wireless Networks

  • Magnus M. Halldórsson
  • Tigran Tonoyan
  • Yuexuan Wang
  • Dongxiao Yu

Brief Announcement: Reliable Message Transmission under Partial Knowledge and General Adversaries

  • Aris Pagourtzis
  • Giorgos Panagiotakos
  • Dimitris Sakavalas

Brief Announcement: Self-stabilizing Clock Synchronization with 3-bit Messages

  • Lucas Boczkowski
  • Amos Korman
  • Emanuele Natale

SESSION: Session 5

  • Merav Parter

Distributed Strong Diameter Network Decomposition: Extended Abstract

  • Michael Elkin
  • Ofer Neiman

Optimal Dynamic Distributed MIS

  • Keren Censor-Hillel
  • Elad Haramaty
  • Zohar Karnin

A Local Constant Factor MDS Approximation for Bounded Genus Graphs

  • Saeed Akhoondian Amiri
  • Stefan Schmid
  • Sebastian Siebertz

On Efficient Distributed Construction of Near Optimal Routing Schemes: Extended Abstract

  • Michael Elkin
  • Ofer Neiman

Brief Announcement: Deterministic Graph Connectivity in the Broadcast Congested Clique

  • Pedro Montealegre
  • Ioan Todinca

SESSION: Session 6

  • Gadi Taubenfeld

Space Bounds for Reliable Storage: Fundamental Limits of Coding

  • Alexander Spiegelman
  • Yuval Cassuto
  • Gregory Chockler
  • Idit Keidar

Specification and Complexity of Collaborative Text Editing

  • Hagit Attiya
  • Sebastian Burckhardt
  • Alexey Gotsman
  • Adam Morrison
  • Hongseok Yang
  • Marek Zawirski

Optimal Mobile Byzantine Fault Tolerant Distributed Storage: Extended Abstract

  • Silvia Bonomi
  • Antonella Del Pozzo
  • Maria Potop-Butucaru
  • Sébastien Tixeuil

A Markov Chain Algorithm for Compression in Self-Organizing Particle Systems

  • Sarah Cannon
  • Joshua J. Daymude
  • Dana Randall
  • Andréa W. Richa

A Complexity-Based Hierarchy for Multiprocessor Synchronization: [Extended Abstract]

  • Faith Ellen
  • Rati Gelashvili
  • Nir Shavit
  • Leqi Zhu

Brief Announcement: Asynchronous Coordination with Constraints and Preferences

  • Armando Castañeda
  • Pierre Fraigniaud
  • Eli Gafni
  • Sergio instituto de Matemáticas Rajsbaum
  • Matthieu Roy

SESSION: Keynote Lecture 3

How Emerging Memory Technologies Will Have You Rethinking Algorithm Design

  • Phillip B. Gibbons

SESSION: Session 7

  • Yehuda Afek

Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds on the Storage Cost of Shared Memory Emulation

  • Viveck R. Cadambe
  • Zhiying Wang
  • Nancy Lynch

On the Complexity of Reader-Writer Locks: Extended Abstract

  • Danny Hendler

An Algorithm for Replicated Objects with Efficient Reads

  • Tushar D. Chandra
  • Vassos Hadzilacos
  • Sam Toueg

Are Shared Objects Composable under an Oblivious Adversary?

  • Oksana Denysyuk
  • Philipp Woelfel

Brief Announcement: A Family of Leaderless Generalized-Consensus Algorithms

  • Giuliano Losa
  • Sebastiano Peluso
  • Binoy Ravindran

Brief Announcement: Computing in the Presence of Weak Crash Failures

  • Gadi Taubenfeld

Brief Announcement: Oh-RAM! One and a Half Round Read/Write Atomic Memory

  • Theophanis Hadjistasi
  • Nicolas Nicolaou
  • Alexander A. Schwarzmann

Brief Announcement: Space-Time Tradeoffs for Distributed Verification

  • Mor Baruch
  • Rafail Ostrovsky
  • Will Rosenbaum

SESSION: Session 8

  • Marcos K. Aguilera

A Faster Distributed Radio Broadcast Primitive: Extended Abstract

  • Bernhard Haeupler
  • David Wajc

Broadcast Extensions with Optimal Communication and Round Complexity

  • Chaya Ganesh
  • Arpita Patra

Two-Bit Messages are Sufficient to Implement Atomic Read/Write Registers in Crash-prone Systems

  • Achour Mostefaoui
  • Michel Raynal

How Proofs are Prepared at Camelot: Extended Abstract

  • Andreas Björklund
  • Petteri Kaski

Brief Announcement: Proactive Secret Sharing with a Dishonest Majority

  • Shlomi Dolev
  • Karim ElDefrawy
  • Joshua Lampkins
  • Rafail Ostrovsky
  • Moti Yung

SESSION: Session 9

  • Adrian Kosowski

Search on a Line with Faulty Robots

  • Jurek Czyzowicz
  • Evangelos Kranakis
  • Danny Krizanc
  • Lata Narayanan
  • Jaroslav Opatrny

Uniform Deployment of Mobile Agents in Asynchronous Rings

  • Masahiro Shibata
  • Toshiya Mega
  • Fukuhito Ooshita
  • Hirotsugu Kakugawa
  • Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Optimization: Optimal Iterative Distributed Algorithms

  • Lili Su
  • Nitin H. Vaidya

Brief Announcement: Active Information Spread in Networks

  • Gennaro Cordasco
  • Luisa Gargano
  • Adele A. Rescigno
  • Ugo Vaccaro

Brief Announcement: Certified Universal Gathering in R2 for Oblivious Mobile Robots

  • Pierre Courtieu
  • Lionel Rieg
  • Sébastien Tixeuil
  • Xavier Urbain

Brief Announcement: Probabilistic Asynchronous Arbitrary Pattern Formation

  • Quentin Bramas
  • Sébastien Tixeuil

Brief Announcement: Pattern Formation Problem for Synchronous Mobile Robots in the Three Dimensional Euclidean Space

  • Yukiko Yamauchi
  • Taichi Uehara
  • Masafumi Yamashita

SESSION: Session 10

  • Philipp Woelfel

Low-Congestion Shortcuts without Embedding

  • Bernhard Haeupler
  • Taisuke Izumi
  • Goran Zuzic

The Coalescing-Branching Random Walk on Expanders and the Dual Epidemic Process

  • Colin Cooper
  • Tomasz Radzik
  • Nicolas Rivera

Ant-Inspired Density Estimation via Random Walks: Extended Abstract

  • Cameron Musco
  • Hsin-Hao Su
  • Nancy Lynch

Brief Announcement: Multi-Broadcasting under the SINR Model

  • Sai Praneeth Reddy
  • Shailesh Vaya

Brief Announcement: Using Read-k Inequalities to Analyze a Distributed MIS Algorithm

  • Sriram V. Pemmaraju
  • Talal Riaz

Brief Announcement: A Key-Value Map for Massive Real-Time Analytics

  • Dmitry Basin
  • Edward Bortnikov
  • Anastasia Braginsky
  • Guy Golan Gueta
  • Eshcar Hillel
  • Idit Keidar
  • Moshe Sulamy