Scope

The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and application of distributed systems and networks. We solicit papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The 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 (in alphabetical order).

    biological distributed algorithms and systems
    coding and reliable communication
    combinatorics and topology of distributed computing
    communication networks
    concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
    design and analysis of concurrent and distributed algorithms and data structures
    distributed and cloud storage, replication and consistency
    distributed computing for machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data
    distributed graph algorithms
    distributed ledgers and decentralized finance protocols
    distributed operating systems, middleware, and databases
    distributed resource management and scheduling
    fault-tolerance, reliability, self-organization, and self-stabilization
    game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
    high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
    internet applications
    lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing
    mobile computing, population protocols and autonomous agents
    models and languages for distributed computing
    multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
    peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, and social networks
    quantum and optics based distributed computing
    security and cryptography in distributed computing
    specifications, semantics, verification, and formal methods for distributed systems
    system-on-chip and network-on-chip architectures
    transactional memory
    wireless, sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks