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*DISC 2026 Call for Papers*
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40th International Symposium on Distributed Computing
November 9-13, 2026
Rome, Italy
https://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2026/
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*DISC Conference Overview*
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The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an
international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and
application of distributed systems and networks. It is organized in
cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
(EATCS). The symposium was established 41 years ago, in 1985, as a biannual
International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG). DISC
2026 marks the 40th edition of the symposium. To celebrate this special
milestone, the conference will include a series of festivities and special
events honoring four decades of advances in distributed computing research
and the vibrant community that has shaped the field.
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*Important Dates*
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Paper registration: May 27, 2026
Submission deadline: June 1, 2026
Rebuttal phase: July 21-25, 2026
Notification: August 5, 2026
Camera-ready version due date: August 19, 2026
All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE.
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*Scope*
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Submissions are sought in all areas of distributed algorithms and
distributed systems, including theory, design, implementation, modelling,
analysis, and application of distributed systems and networks. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
· Biological and nature-inspired distributed algorithms
· Blockchain protocols
· Distributed and concurrent data structures, replication and
consistency
· Distributed graph algorithms
· Distributed machine learning and data science
· Distributed operating systems, middleware, database systems
· Experimental evaluation of distributed algorithms and systems
· Fault tolerance, reliability, availability
· Formal methods for distributed computing: verification, synthesis
and testing
· Game-theoretic and knowledge-based approaches to distributed
computing
· High-performance, cloud and grid computing
· Internet and Web applications, social networks and recommendation
systems
· Mobile agents, autonomous distributed systems, swarm robotics
· Multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
· Population protocols and chemical reaction networks
· Quantum distributed algorithms
· Security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
· Self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomous systems
· Synchronization, persistence and transactional memory
· Wireless, mobile, sensor and ad-hoc networks
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*Submissions*
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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.
There are two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.
Regular papers must report on original research that has not previously
been published (and may not be concurrently submitted to other journals or
conferences with proceedings). All ideas necessary for an expert to fully
verify the central claims in a paper, including experimental results,
should be included in the submission. A brief announcement may describe
work in progress or work presented elsewhere. A brief announcement may also
present a result that is short and elegant but does not require a longer
paper. It may also be used to announce a software distribution or an
experimental result of interest that can be concisely described. The title
of a brief announcement must start with the phrase "Brief Announcement: ".
A paper that is not accepted as a regular paper may be invited as a brief
announcement.
When requested by the program committee, each author of the submitted
paper(s) is expected to prepare a professional review of a non-conflicted
DISC 2026 submission that falls within their research expertise.
Submission should be done via the following web page:
https://disc26.hotcrp.com
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*Submission format*
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Submissions must be in English in pdf format and they must be prepared
using the LaTeX style template for LIPIcs (
https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author) with
\documentclass[a4paper,anonymous,USenglish]{lipics-v2021}.
Submissions must be anonymous, without any author names, affiliations, or
email addresses. The contact information of the authors will be entered
separately in the submission metadata.
For regular papers, there is no page limit, and authors are encouraged to
use the "full version" of their paper as the submission. The initial 15
pages, excluding the title page and a table of contents, should contain 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.
(Illustrative figures are encouraged.) The submission must contain all
necessary details, including full proofs of all claims in the paper.
Although there is no bound on the length of a submission, material other
than the first 15 pages, excluding the title page and a table of contents,
will be read at the committee's discretion. Papers submitted as brief
announcements should comply with the above rules, replacing 15 pages with 5
pages.
Submissions not conforming to the submission guidelines and papers outside
of the scope of the conference will be rejected without consideration. All
accept/reject decisions made by the program committee are final.
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*Use of Large Language Models (LLMs)*
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The use of LLMs for submission preparation is permitted, although it is
highly recommended that they only be used for cosmetic changes, e.g.
proofreading of the text. The use of LLMs in technical parts should be
treated in the same way as any other software or system, and thus carefully
described and documented in the submission. Ultimately, the authors are
responsible for the content of their submission, and mis-use of LLM may
result in rejection. Any questions about the LLM use policy should be
directed to the PC chair, Keren Censor-Hillel (ckeren@cs.technion.ac.il).
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*Anonymous Submissions*
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We will use a relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review.
Submissions must not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In
particular, authors' names and affiliation should not appear in the
document itself. Authors should ensure that any references to their own
related work are 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.
You are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other online
repositories and give presentations on your work as usual. Moreover,
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.
Brief announcements should also be submitted without author names and
affiliations so that a reviewer can form an initial judgment without bias,
but they can contain a reference to the full version of the work in the
bibliography.
Please feel free to ask the PC chair if you have any questions about the
double-blind policy of DISC 2026.
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*Conflict of Interest*
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The submission form provides an opportunity to specify conflicts of
interest with any of the PC members and other member of research community.
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;
- 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 beyond
listed above, or any other issues related to the fair treatment of your
submission, contact the PC chair, Keren Censor-Hillel (
ckeren@cs.technion.ac.il), or the SafeTOC representative for DISC, listed
at https://safetoc.org/index.php/toc-advisors/.
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*Participation at DISC*
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It is expected that accepted papers and brief announcements be presented
in-person at the conference.
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*Publication*
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The proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. The final version of the paper
has to be formatted following the LIPIcs guidelines. Regular papers will
have 15 pages in the final proceedings (excluding references), and brief
announcements will have 5 pages in the proceedings (including everything).
If more space is needed, the authors are encouraged to post the full
version e.g. on arXiv and refer to it in their paper.
Accepted papers and brief announcements must be presented by one of the
authors, with a full registration and according to the final schedule.
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a
special issue of the journal Distributed Computing.
The best paper at DISC will be considered for publication in the Journal of
the ACM.
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*Awards*
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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.
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*Organization*
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*Program Committee:*
James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
Naama Ben-David, Technion, Israel
Christian Cachin, University of Bern, Switzerland
Armando Castañeda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel (Chair)
Peter Davies-Peck, Durham University, UK
Michal Dory, University of Haifa, Israel
Fabien Dufoulon, Lancaster University, UK
Constantin Enea, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University, USA
Leszek Antoni Gąsieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Ran Gelles, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
George Giakkouipis, Inria, Rennes, France
Seth Gilbert, NUS, Singapore
Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Danny Hendler, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Taisuke Izumi, The University of Osaka, Japan
Siddhartha Jayanti, Dartmouth College, USA
Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Petr Kuznetsov, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Quanquan Liu, Yale University, USA
Thomas Locher, DFINITY, Switzerland
Giuliano Losa, Stellar Development Foundation, USA
Darya Melnyk, TU Berlin, Germany
Alessia Milani, Aix-Marseille University, LIS, France
Shreyas Pai, IIT Madras, India
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ivan Rapaport, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Andrea W. Richa, Arizona State University, USA
Peter Robinson, Augusta University, USA
Joel Rybicki, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany
Lili Su, Northeastern University, USA
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
François Taïani, Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
Andrei Tonkikh, Aptos Labs, USA
Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M University, USA
Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada
Michelle Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Aarhus
University, Denmark
Leqi Zhu, University of Manitoba, Canada
*Conference Committee:*
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (co-Chair)
Yannic Maus, TU Graz, Austria (Treasurer)
William K. Moses Jr., Durham University, UK (Publicity Chair and
Proceedings Chair)
Ami Paz, CNRS and Paris-Saclay University, France (Workshops Chair)
Andrea Vitaletti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (co-Chair)
*Steering Committee:*
Dan Alistarh, IST, Austria (2024 PC Chair)
Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel (Chair)
Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel (2026 PC Chair)
Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Université Paris Cité, France (Vice Chair)
Dariusz Kowalski, Augusta University, USA (2025 PC Chair)
Alessia Milani, Aix-Marseille University, LIS, France (Member-at-large)
Ami Paz, CNRS and Paris-Saclay University, France (Member-at-large)
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Regards,
William K. Moses Jr.
Publicity Chair, DISC 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/wkmjr
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