The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual

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for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium is organized in association with the

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(EATCS). It and the ACM

Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is an academic conference in the field of distributed computing organised annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS). Scope and ...

(PODC) are the two premier conferences in

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research. The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and at the PODC.

History

DISC dates back to 1985, when it began as a biannual Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG); it became annual in 1989. The name changed to the present one in 1998.DISC
in

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. While the first WDAG was held in

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, Canada in 1985, since then WDAG/DISC has been organised primarily in European locations, one exception being WDAG 1992 in

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, Israel. In September 2010, DISC returned to North America for the first time since 1985: 24th DISC took place in

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, United States. In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.PODC
in

.PODC 2010 Call For Papers

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