38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
July 29–August 2, 2019, Toronto, Canada
http://www.podc.org/
Twitter: @podc_conference
DATES
Paper submission: February 18, 2019
Acceptance notification: May 5, 2019
Camera ready copy due: May 27, 2019
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made
available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks
prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date
affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
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:
- biological distributed algorithms
- blockchain protocols
- coding and reliable communication
- communication networks: algorithms, protocols, applications
- complexity and impossibility results for distributed computing
- concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
- design and analysis of distributed algorithms
- distributed and cloud storage
- distributed data structures
- distributed graph algorithms
- distributed machine learning algorithms
- distributed operating systems, middleware, databases
- distributed resource management and scheduling
- fault-tolerance, reliability, self-organization, self-stabilization
- game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
- internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems
- languages, verification, formal methods for distributed systems
- multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
- peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks
- population protocols
- quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
- replication and consistency
- security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
- sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
- specifications and semantics
- system-on-chip and network-on-chip architectures
- transactional memory
- wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents
PAPER SUBMISSION
A submitted paper should clearly motivate the importance of the problem
being addressed, discuss prior work and its relationship to the paper,
explicitly and precisely state the paper's key contributions, and
outline the key technical ideas and methods used to achieve the main
claims. A submission should strive to be accessible to a broad audience,
as well as having sufficient details for experts in the area.
A regular paper must report on original research that has not been
previously or concurrently published; concurrent submissions to journals
or conferences are not permitted. The paper must be at most 11 pages
(excluding references). All of the ideas necessary for an expert to
fully verify the central claims in the paper, including experimental
results, should be included, some of which may be placed in a clearly
marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program
committee. If desired, the appendix can be a longer version of the paper.
A brief announcement must be at most 3 pages (including title, abstract
and references). Such submissions may describe work in progress or work
presented elsewhere. The title of a brief announcement must begin with
"Brief Announcement:".
Papers are to be submitted at https://podc19.hotcrp.com as PDF files.
Submissions must be in English, must be formatted in a single column on
US letter-size paper (8.5×11 inches), use at least 11-point font
(including abstract and references), and have 1 inch margins.
Submissions not conforming to these rules as well as papers outside of
the scope of the conference will be rejected without consideration.
Papers may be resubmitted to the submission site multiple times prior to
the deadline, but the last version submitted before the deadline will be
the version reviewed.
Each paper must begin with a title and an abstract. The following
information will be required to be entered separately on the submission
site:
- a copy of the abstract in plain text,
- whether the paper should be considered only as a regular submission,
as a brief announcement if not selected as a regular
- authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses,
- eligibility for the best student paper award, and
- the names of anyone who should not review the paper due to a conflict
of interest.
The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process.
Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In
particular, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses should not
appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should
ensure that any references to their own related work should be in the
third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather
"We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help
PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the
paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the
authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of
anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the
paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be
omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to
disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they
normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on
the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas.
Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged
to contact the PC chair by email.
PUBLICATION
Regular papers of up to 10 pages and brief announcements of up to 3
pages will be included in the conference proceedings. Extended and
revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special
issue of the Distributed Computing journal. Up to two papers will be
selected to be considered for publication in JACM.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
A conflict of interest is limited to one of the following categories:
- family member or close friend,
- advisor or advisee (within the last 10 years),
- person with the same affiliation,
- party involved in an alleged harassment incident with an author (It is
not required that the incident be reported.) and
- frequent or recent collaborator whom you feel cannot objectively
review your work.
If you feel that you have a valid reason for a conflict of interest not
listed above, contact the PC chair directly. If there is doubt about the
validity of a claim of conflict of interest, the PC chair may request
that a Theory of Computing Advocate confidentially verify the reason.
ORGANIZATION
Program committee:
James Aspnes, Yale University, US
Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Iowa State University, US
Trevor Brown, University of Waterloo, Canada
Armando Castañeda, UNAM, Mexico
Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada (chair)
Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece
Cyril Gavoille, LaBRI – University of Bordeaux, France
Juan Garay, Texas A&M University, US
Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Rati Gelashvili, NeuralMagic, US
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, US
Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada
Janne Korhonen, Aalto University, Finland
Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany
Christoph Lenzen, Max Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany
Rotem Oshman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
David Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Thomas Sauerwald, Cambridge University, UK
Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester, US
Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany
Marc Shapiro, Sorbonne Université-Inria, France
Hsin-Hao Su, Boston College, US
Amitabh Trehan, Loughborough University, UK
Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, MIT, US
Conference Committee:
General chair: Peter Robinson, McMaster University, Canada
Program committee chair: Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada
Organizing chair: Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Workshop chair: Avery Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada
Treasurer: Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel
Communication Chair: Christian Konrad, University of Bristol, UK
Publicity: Mark Tuttle, Amazon, USA
Steering Committee
Chair: Jennifer Welch (2018-2021) - Texas A&M, USA
PC chair 2019: Faith Ellen (2018-2021) - University of Toronto, Canada
PC chair 2018: Idit Keidar (2017-2020) - Technion, Israel
PC chair 2017: Alex Schwarzmann (2016-2019) - University of
Connecticut, USA
General chair 2019: Peter Robinson (2017-2019) - McMaster
University, Canada
Treasurer 2019: Yuval Emek (2018-2020) - Technion, Israel
At-large: Lorenzo Alvisi (2017-2019) - Cornell University, USA
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