List of distributed computing conferences

This is a selected list of international academic conferences in the fields of distributed computing, parallel computing, and concurrent computing.

Selection criteria

The conferences listed here are major conferences of the area; they have been selected using the following criteria:-

1. the notability of the conference has been confirmed by multiple independent sources; for example, it has been mentioned in textbooks ^[1][2][3] or other sources,^[4][5] or it has received a high ranking ^[6]
2. the conference focuses on distributed and parallel computing (instead of having a much broader scope such as algorithms in general)
3. the conference covers a reasonably large part of the fields of distributed and parallel computing (instead of focusing on a narrow sub-topic).

For the first criterion, references are provided; criteria 2–3 are usually clear from the name of the conference.

Conferences

• DISC — International Symposium on Distributed Computing ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}
  • formerly: WDAG — Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs
  • organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
  • organized in 1985, 1987, and annually since 1989
  • main locations (1985–2009, 23 conferences): 21 times in Europe
  • web site — proceedings
• ICDCN — International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ^[4]
  • formerly: IWDC — International Workshop on Distributed Computing
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1999
  • main locations (1999–2012, 13 conferences): 12 times in Asia, 1 time in Europe
  • web site — proceedings - former proceedings (2001-2005)
• ICDCS — International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ^{[3][4][5][6][7]}
  • sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
  • organized in 1979, 1981, 1983, and annually since 1984
  • main locations (1979–2009, 29 conferences): 17 times in North America, 7 times in Europe, 5 times in Asia
  • web site (2015) — proceedings
• ICPADS — International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems ^[6][7]
  • sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
  • organized in 1992
  • main locations (1992–2012, 18 conferences): 15 times in Asia, 2 times in North America, 1 times in Oceania
  • web site (2010) — proceedings
• IDCS — International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems
  • organized annually since 2008, next edition: 2-4 Sept. 2015, Windsor, UK
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • web site (2015) — proceedings
• OPODIS — International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems ^[3][4][5]
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1997
  • main locations (1997–2009, 13 conferences): 9 times in Europe
  • web site — proceedings
• PODC — ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ^{[1][2][3][6][7]}
  • sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS
  • organized annually since 1982
  • main locations (1982–2009, 28 conferences): 28 times in North America
  • web site — proceedings
• PPoPP — ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming ^[4][6][7]
  • sponsored by the ACM special interest group SIGPLAN
  • organised in 1988 and 1990; biennially in 1991–2005; and annually since 2006
  • main locations (1988–2013, 18 conferences): 16 times in North America, 2 times in Asia
  • web site — proceedings
• SIROCCO — International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity ^[3][4][5]
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1994
  • main locations (1994–2009, 16 conferences): 15 times in Europe
  • website (2013) — proceedings
• SPAA — ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures ^{[1][3][4][5][6][7]}
  • formerly: ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
  • sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGARCH, organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
  • organized annually since 1989
  • main locations (1989–2013, 25 conferences): 17 times in North America, 8 times in Europe
  • web site — proceedings

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See also

• List of computer science conferences contains conferences in other areas of computer science.

Notes

1. Nancy Ann Lynch: Distributed Algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, ISBN 978-1-55860-348-6. Section 1.4, "Bibliographic notes", mentions the following conferences: PODC, FOCS, STOC, SPAA, WDAG.
2. Gerard Tel: Introduction to Distributed Algorithms, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-79483-1. Sect. 1.3.3, "Research field", mentions the following conferences: PODC, WDAG/DISC, STOC, FOCS.
3. Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander A. Shvartsman: Do-All Computing in Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-30918-7. Section "Bibliographic notes" in "Preface" mentions the following conferences: PODC, SPAA, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ICDCS, DISC, OPODIS, SIROCCO.
4. PODC mailing list instructions mention the following conferences (in addition to PODC): DISC, ICDCN, ICDCS, OPODIS, PPoPP, SIROCCO, SPAA, SSS.
5. Roger Wattenhofer: PODC 2007 Statistics. The following conferences are listed as other conferences where PODC authors have published most, during the last 5 years: DISC, OPODIS, SPAA, SIROCCO, ICDCS, SRDS, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ESA.
6. The 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences. In this ranking, the tiers are A+ ("... one of the very best in its field or subfield..."), A ("... would add to the author's respect..."), B ("... some confidence that research was done..."), L ("... local conferences..."), and C (the rest). Conferences on the tier A+ include PODC. Conferences on the tier A include the following: CONCUR, DISC, EuroPar, HiPC, HPDC, ICDCS, ICPP, ICS, IPDPS, MassPar, NDSS, PACT, PADS, P2P, PPoPP, PPSN, SPAA, SRDS, SUPER.
7. In this ranking, the tiers Conferences on Top Tier include PPoPP, and the Second Tier include PODC SPAA ICDCS ICPADS CCC.

External links

• Conference schedule for DISC, ICDCS, ICPADS, OPODIS, PODC, PPoPP, SIROCCO, and SPAA at confsearch.org.
• More distributed computing conferences at confsearch.org.