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PODC 2025: FINAL 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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SUBMISSION WEBSITE
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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.
Alternatively, papers can also be submitted by using the official ACM Master article LaTeX template acmart.cls, version 1.80 or greater, using the following documentclass instruction:
\documentclass[acmsmall,nonacm.anonymous]{acmart}
The template is available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.
The following instructions equally apply in both cases.
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.
It is expected that papers that are published at PODC 2025 are presented by one of the authors in person at the conference. In exceptional circumstances (e.g., because of visa issues), a limited number of exceptions can be approved by the PC chair. A paid conference registration by one of the authors of each accepted paper will be required in any case.
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.
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ORGANIZATION
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Program Committee
Ittai Abraham, Intel Labs, Israel
James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel
John Augustine, IIT Madras, India
Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University, USA
Yi-Jun Chang, National University of Singapore
Gregory Chockler, University of Surrey, UK
Shir Cohen, Cornell University, USA
Michal Dory, University of Haifa, Israel
Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada
Laurent Feuilloley, CNRS & University of Lyon, France
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore
Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Christoph Grunau, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Danny Hendler, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Siddhartha Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA
Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wrocław, Poland
Dariusz Kowalski, Augusta University, USA
Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany (Chair)
Shay Kutten, Technion, Israel
Mohsen Lesani, UC Riverside, USA
Thomas Locher, DFINITY, Switzerland
Yannic Maus, Technical University Graz, Austria
Darya Melnyk, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Alessia Milani, LaBRI, France
Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel
Achour Mostéfaoui, University of Rennes, France
Alex Nolin, CISPA, Saarbrücken, Germany
Dennis Olivetti, GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy
Rotem Oshman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sean Ovens, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shreyas Pai, IIT Madras, India
Ami Paz, CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France
Sriram Pemmaraju, University of Iowa, USA
Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA
Eric Ruppert, York University, Toronto, Canada
Philipp Schneider , CISPA, Saarbrücken, Germany
Gregory Schwartzman, JAIST, Japan
Gal Sela Milman, EPFL, Switzerland
Gilad Stern, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Corentin Travers, LIS, Marseille, France
Jara Uitto, Aalto University, Finland
Przemysław Uznański, Pathway, Poland
Marko Vukolic, Protocol Labs, USA
Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada
Goran Zuzic, Google Research, Switzerland
Conference Committee
General Chair: Alkida Balliu, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Treasurer: Dennis Olivetti, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Publicity co-chair: Vitaly Aksenov, City University of London, UK
Publicity co-chair: Leqi (Jimmy) Zhu, University of Manitoba, Canada
Workshop co-chair: Sebastian Brandt, Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA), Germany
Workshop co-chair: Siddhartha Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA
Travel grants chair: Dimitrios Los, INRIA Rennes, France
Organizing co-chair: Armando Castañeda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Organizing co-chair: Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Program Chair: Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany
Steering Committee
Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH – ICS & University of Crete – CSD, Greece (Chair)
Fabian Kuhn, University of Freiburg, Germany (PC chair 2025)
Petr Kuznetsov, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique Paris, France (PC chair 2024)
Magnús M. Halldórsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland (PC chair 2023)
Alkida Balliu, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy (General chair 2025)
Dennis Olivetti, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy (Treasurer 2025)
George Giakkoupis, INRIA Rennes, France (At-large)
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