DISC 2021: 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing Freiburg, Germany, October 4-8, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.disc-conference.org/ |
Submission deadline | May 10, 2021 |
https://twitter.com/podc_disc |
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: May 10, 2021 (AoE)
- Rebuttal period: July 5-8, 2021 (AoE)
- Notification (regular papers): July 23, 2021
- Notification (brief announcements): July 30, 2021
- Final versions: August 6, 2021
- Main conference: October 5-7, 2021
- Workshops: October 4 & 8, 2021
Corona Virus Caveat
Note that these details will be updated based on the evaluation of the pandemic situation, including decisions onwhether the conference is hybrid, in-person, or fully virtual.
Scope
Original contributions to theory, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, or application of distributed systems and networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed computing theory, computability, knowledge
- Concurrency and synchronization, transactional memory
- Distributed algorithms and data structures: correctness and complexity
- Distributed graph algorithms, dynamic networks, network science
- Multiprocessor and multicore parallel architectures and algorithms
- Circuits, Systems on chip and networks on chip
- Wireless, mobile, sensor and ad-hoc networks
- Fault tolerance and self-stabilization, reliability, availability
- Security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
- Block chain and other recent distributed paradigms
- Game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- Formal verification, synthesis and testing: methodologies, tools
- Distributed operating systems, middleware, and distributed programming
- Distributed databases, big data, cloud and peer-to-peer computing
- Mobile agents, autonomous distributed systems, swarm robotics
- Biological and nature-inspired distributed algorithms
- Machine learning and distributed computing
Papers
A submitted paper should clearly motivate the importance of theproblem being addressed, discuss prior work and its relationship tothe paper, explicitly and precisely state the paper’s keycontributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods used toachieve the main claims. A submission should strive to be accessibleto a broad audience, as well as having sufficient details for expertsin the area.
There are two types of submissions: regular papers and briefannouncements. Regular papers must report on original research thathas not previously been published (and may not be concurrentlysubmitted to other journals or conferences with proceedings). Allideas necessary for an expert to fully verify the central claims in apaper, including experimental results, should be included in thesubmission.
A brief announcement may describe work in progress or work presentedelsewhere. A brief announcement may also present a result that isshort and elegant, but does not require a longer paper. It may also beused to announce a software distribution or an experimental results ofinterest that can be concisely described.
Anonymous Submissions
We will use a relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review.Submissions must not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. Inparticular, authors’ names and affiliation should not appear in thedocument itself. Authors should ensure that any references to theirown related work are in the third person (e.g., not “We build on ourprevious work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”). The purposeof this process is to help PC members and external reviewers come toan initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make itimpossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try.
You are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other onlinerepositories and give presentations on your work as usual. Moreover,nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens thesubmission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. Inparticular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized.
Brief announcements should also be submitted without author names andaffiliations so that a reviewer can form an initial judgment withoutbias, but they can contain a reference to the full version of the workin the bibliography.
Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing areencouraged to contact the PC chair by email.
Please feel free to ask the PC chair if you have any questions aboutthe double-blind policy of DISC 2020.
Conflict of Interest
The submission form provides an opportunity to specify conflicts ofinterest, limited to: (1) family members and close friends; (2) PhDadvisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoctoral or undergraduatementor/mentee within past 5 years; (3) people with the sameaffiliation; (4) someone involved in an alleged incident of harassment(with no requirement of a formal report), (5) collaborators whojointly authored papers within the last two years.
If you feel that you have a valid reason for a conflict of interestnot listed above, or any other issues related to the fair treatment ofyour submission, contact the PC chair or the SafeTOC representativefor DISC (which can be found on the DISC webpage).
Publication
The proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. The final version of thepaper has to be formatted following the LIPIcs guidelines. Regularpapers will have 15 pages in the final proceedings (excludingreferences), and brief announcements will have 3 pages in theproceedings (including everything). If more space is needed, theauthors are encouraged to post the full version e.g. on arXiv andrefer to it in their paper.
Accepted papers and brief announcements must be presented by one ofthe authors, with a full registration and according to the finalschedule. Any submission accepted into the technical program but notpresented on-site will be withdrawn from the final proceedings.
The submission site will be posted shortly on the DISC website.
Awards
Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be eligible for the best student paper award at least one of the paper authors must be a full-time student at the time of submission, and the student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper.
Committees
Program Committee
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Steering committee
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Hagit Attiya, Technion (Israel) -
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore (Singapore) -
Calvin Newport, Georgetown University (USA) -
Merav Parter, Weizmann Institute (Israel) -
Andréa Richa (Chair), Arizona State University (USA) -
Ulrich Schmid, TU Wien (Austria) -
Jukka Suomela (Vice Chair), Aalto University (Finland)
Organizing committee
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Alkida Balliu University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Philipp Bamberger University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Salwa Faour (Publicity Co-Chair), University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Marc Fuchs (Publicity Co-Chair), University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Seth Gilbert (PC Chair), National University of Singapore (Singapore) -
Fabian Kuhn (General Chair), University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Moti Medina (Workshops and Tutorials Chair), Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev (Israel) -
Dennis Olivetti, University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg (Germany) -
Philipp Schneider, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to disc2021@cs.uni-freiburg.de