====================================================== DISC 2017 -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **SUBMISSION SERVER IS NOW OPEN** https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disc17 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing October 16-20th 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www.disc-conference.org/2017/ ====================================================== DISC is the International Symposium on Distributed Computing, organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). --------------------- Important Dates --------------------- Abstract Registration May 01, 2017 (11:59pm, Anywhere on Earth) Paper Submission May 08, 2017 (11:59pm, Anywhere on Earth) Notification June 30, 2017 Camera-Ready Submission August 5, 2017 Main conference October 17–19, 2017 -------- Scope -------- Original contributions to theory, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, or application of distributed systems and networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Distributed algorithms and data structures: correctness and complexity • Concurrency, synchronization, and transactional memory • Distributed operating systems, middleware, database systems • Self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomous systems • Wireless, mobile, sensor and ad-hoc networks • Fault tolerance, reliability, availability • Game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing • Specification, verification, and testing: tools, methodologies • Networks: protocols, architectures, services, applications • Multiprocessor and multicore parallel architectures and algorithms • System on chip and network on chip architectures • Security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols • Distributed computing issues in the Internet and the Web • Cloud and peer-to-peer computing • Software-defined networking and network functions virtualization • Mobile agents and autonomous robots • Data science and network science • Biological and nature-inspired distributed algorithms • Distributed applications in machine learning • Block chain, MapReduce, and other recent distributed paradigms --------------- Submission --------------- Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines on the conference web page. Submissions must be in English and in .pdf format, and must indicate on the first page if the paper is eligible for the best student paper award. A submission for a regular presentation must report on original research that has not previously appeared and has not been concurrently submitted to a journal or conference with published proceedings. Any overlap with a published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Submissions for regular papers must be formatted in accordance with the LIPIcs proceedings guidelines and not exceed 15 pages including title-page and references. Authors are expected to include all the ideas necessary for an expert to verify the central claims in the paper. If necessary, the details may appear in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. LIPIcs typesetting instructions can be found at http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics and the lipics.cls LaTeX style http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics-v2016/lipics-v2016-authors.tgz . A brief announcement submission must not exceed 3 pages in the same format. The material in brief announcements can be published in other conferences. If requested by the authors on the first page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation can be considered for the brief announcements track. Such a request will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation. Submissions not conforming to these rules and papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected without consideration. ----------- Publication ----------- The proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the paper’s authors, at the conference site, and according to the final schedule. Any paper accepted into the technical program but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the final proceedings. Final proceedings versions of accepted regular papers must be formatted according to LIPIcs format, using same rules for paper submission but without the appendix. ------ Awards ------ 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. ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research Group, USA Dan Alistarh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, & IST, Austria James Aspnes, Yale U., USA Rida Bazzi, Arizona State U., USA Christian Cachin, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Andrea Clementi, Tor Vergata U., Rome, Italy Oksana Denysyuk, Pure Storage, USA Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel Sándor Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown U., USA Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS & U. Paris-Diderot, France Mohsen Ghaffari, ETH Zurich, Switzerland George Giakkoupis, INRIA Rennes, France Seth Gilbert, NUS, Singapore Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland Fabian Kuhn, U. Freiburg, Germany Dahlia Malkhi, VMware Research Group, USA Rotem Oshman, Tel-Aviv U., Israel Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv U., Israel Maria Potop-Butucaru, Paris-6 U., France Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern U., USA Andréa Richa, (chair) Arizona State U., USA Nicola Santoro, Carleton U., Canada Christian Scheideler, U. Paderborn, Germany Stefan Schmid, U. Aalborg, Denmark David Soloveichik, UT Austin, USA Aravind Srinivasan, U. Maryland, USA Shang-Hua Teng, USC, USA Nitin Vaidya, UIUC, USA Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M, USA Yukiko Yamauchi, Kyushu U., Japan -------------------- Organizing Committee (Chairs) -------------------- Ulrich Schmid (general), TU Wien, Austria Josef Widder (general/workshop), TU Wien, Austria Jukka Suomela (proceedings), Aalto U., Finland Dan Alistarh (publicity), ETH Zurich, Switzerland & IST, Austria Kyrill Winkler (web), TU Wien, Austria ------------------ Steering Committee ------------------ Roberto Baldoni, Sapienza U. di Roma, Italy Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel Shlomi Dolev (chair), Ben Gurion U., Israel Cyril Gavoille, Bordeaux U., France Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel Andréa Richa, Arizona State U., USA Jukka Suomela, Aalto U., Finland ------------------- Contact Information ------------------- If you have any question about the CFP and paper submission, please email [log in to unmask] ------------------- Dan Alistarh DISC 2017 Publicity Chair [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]