[DMANET] PODC 2025 Call for Papers

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PODC 2025: CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 44th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
June 16-20, 2025, Huatulco, Mexico

https://www.podc.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/podc_disc

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DATES
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All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE.

Abstract submission: February 4, 2025
Full paper submission: February 8, 2025

Notification: April 17, 2025

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SCOPE
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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 and systems
-blockchain and decentralized finance protocols
-coding and reliable communication
-communication networks
-combinatorics and topology of distributed computing
-concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
-design and analysis of distributed algorithms
-distributed and cloud storage
-distributed and concurrent data structures
-distributed computation for large-scale data
-distributed graph algorithms
-distributed machine learning and artificial intelligence
-distributed operating systems, middleware, 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
-languages, verification, and formal methods for distributed systems
-lower bounds and impossibility results in distributed computing
-mobile computing and autonomous agents
-multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
-peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, and social networks
-population protocols
-quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
-replication and consistency
-security and cryptography in distributed computing
-specifications and semantics
-system-on-chip and network-on-chip architectures
-transactional memory
-wireless, sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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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.

Regular Papers: A regular paper must report on original research that has not been previously published. It is not permitted to submit the same material concurrently to journals or conferences with proceedings. Format and length requirements for submissions are stated below. All ideas necessary for an expert to fully verify the central claims in a paper, including full proofs and experimental results, where applicable, should be included in the submission.

Brief Announcements: A brief announcement may describe work in progress or work presented elsewhere. A brief announcement may also report on original research results that can be fully presented in the limited space available. The title of a brief announcement must begin with "Brief Announcement: ".

Submission format: All submission should be typeset using 11-point or larger fonts, in a single-column, single-space (between lines) format with ample spacing throughout and 1-inch margins all around, on letter-size (8 1/2 x 11 inch) paper.

Regular submissions should start with a title page consisting of the title of the paper, no author information (see paragraph on double-blind reviewing below), and an abstract of a few paragraphs summarizing the paper's contributions. There is no page limit and authors are encouraged to use the "full version" of their paper as the submission. Each submission should contain within the initial ten pages following the title page a clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. Each submission must contain full proofs of all claims in the paper. Although there is no bound on the length of a submission, material other than the abstract, table of contents, and the first ten pages will be read at the committee's discretion. Authors are encouraged to put the references at the very end of the submission.

Brief announcement submissions must have a length of at most 5 pages including title, abstract, and the references.

Submissions not conforming to the rules stated in this call, as well as papers outside the scope of the conference, may be rejected without consideration.

Best practices for citations: Alphabetical orderings of authors can lead to biases. Therefore, authors are encouraged to avoid "et al." in citations, and instead mention all author names.

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DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING
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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 anywhere in the submission. 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.

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST
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Indications of conflicts of interest will be required in the submission form. A conflict of interest is limited to the following:

- A family member or close friend.
- A Ph.D. advisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoctoral or undergraduate mentor or mentee within the past five years.
- A person with the same affiliation.
- A person involved in an alleged incident of harassment. (It is not required that the incident be reported.)
- Frequent collaborators, or collaborators who have jointly published papers within the last two years.

If you feel that you have a valid reason for a conflict of interest not listed above, contact the PC chair or one of the Theory of Computing Advocates affiliated with this conference (Faith Ellen and Idit Keidar). The PC chair may request that a ToC advocate confidentially verify the
reason for a conflict of interest.

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PUBLICATION
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Accepted regular papers of up to 10 pages and brief announcements of up to 3 pages in two-column ACM proceedings format will be included in the conference proceedings. They must be formatted with the ACM Master templates using

\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}.

If more space than available in the proceedings for an accepted paper is needed, a full version must be available publicly, e.g. on arXiv, by the due date for the proceedings version, and the proceedings version must refer to this.

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.

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the journal Distributed Computing. Up to two selected papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of the ACM.


Best,
Vitaly Aksenov and Leqi Zhu (Jimmy)
PODC 2025 Publicity Co-chairs
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