FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DISC 2017 The 31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing October 16-20th, 2017, Vienna, Austria www.disc-conference.org/2017/ HIGHLIGHTS Invited speakers: Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, Rennes, France) Dana Randall (Georgia Tech, USA) Christian Cachin (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland) Program: http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2017/program/ Workshops: October 16th: FRIDA: Formal Reasoning in Distributed Algorithms Workshop on Blockchain Technology and Theory TPC: Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Data Structures October 20th: ADGA: Workshop on Advances in Distributed Graph Algorithms CoDyn: Workshop on Computing in Dynamic Networks HDT: Workshop on Hardware Design and Theory Dijkstra Prize: The 2017 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing sponsored by ACM PODC and EATCS DISC will be presented at DISC this year. It has been awarded to the paper Elizabeth Borowsky, Eli Gafni: Generalized FLP impossibility result for t-resilient asynchronous computations. The award ceremony will be held at the DISC 2017 banquet. Celebration of Yoram Moses's 60th birthday The talks in honor of Yoram will be held on the afternoon of October 17th by Joe Halpern (Cornell University, USA), Moshe Tenenholtz (Technion, Israel), Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA), Shafi Goldwasser (MIT, USA), and Sergio Rajsbaum (UNAM, Mexico). VENUE AND REGISTRATION DISC’17 will be held at Austria Trend Hotel Park Royal Palace, at Schlossallee 8, 1140 Wien (Vienna), in close proximity to the Vienna Technical Museum, and with views of Schönbrunn Palace. We cordially invite you to register under http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2017/registration/ For information on the venue, hotels, and travelling, please see: http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2017/local-arrangements/