This is a selected list of international
academic conference
An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals an ...
s in the fields of
distributed computing
A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different computer network, networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by message passing, passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed com ...
,
parallel computing
Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different fo ...
, and
concurrent computing
Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed '' concurrently''—during overlapping time periods—instead of ''sequentially—''with one completing before the next starts.
This is a property of a syst ...
.
Selection criteria
The conferences listed here are major conferences of the area; they have been selected using the following criteria:-
# the notability of the conference has been confirmed by multiple independent sources; for example, it has been mentioned in textbooks
[ Nancy Ann Lynch: ''Distributed Algorithms'', Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, . Section 1.4, "Bibliographic notes", mentions the following conferences: PODC, FOCS, STOC, SPAA, WDAG.][Gerard Tel: ''Introduction to Distributed Algorithms'', 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000, . Sect. 1.3.3, "Research field", mentions the following conferences: PODC, WDAG/DISC, STOC, FOCS.][Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander A. Shvartsman: ''Do-All Computing in Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity'', Springer, 2007, . Section "Bibliographic notes" in "Preface" mentions the following conferences: PODC, SPAA, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ICDCS, DISC, OPODIS, SIROCCO.] or other sources,
[ PODCbr>mailing list instructions]
mention the following conferences (in addition to PODC): DISC, ICDCN, ICDCS, OPODIS, PPoPP, SIROCCO, SPAA, SSS.[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. or it has received a high ranking
[Th]
. In this ranking, th
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.
# the conference focuses on distributed and parallel computing (instead of having a much broader scope such as algorithms in general)
# 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
* CCGrid —
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing
** sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...
Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ARC SIGARCH
** Organized annually since 2001
* DISC —
International Symposium on Distributed Computing
The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium ...
** formerly: WDAG — Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs
** organized in cooperation with the
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) is an international organization with a European focus, founded in 1972. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results among theoretical computer scientists as well as ...
(EATCS)
* ICDCS —
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
** sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...
Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
** organized in 1979, 1981, 1983, and annually since 1984
* ICPADS —
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) is an academic conference sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry around the world to advance the ...
[In this ranking, th]
tiers
Conferences on Top Tier include PPoPP, and the Second Tier include PODC SPAA ICDCS ICPADS CCC.
** sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...
Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
** organized in 1992
* IPDPS —
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
The International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (or IPDPS) is an annual conference for engineers and scientists to present recent findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. In addition to technical se ...
** organized annually since 1987, next edition: 21-25 May. 2018, Vancouver, Canada
** sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...
Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
** proceedings published by
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
* OPODIS —
International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
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** proceedings published by
Springer
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Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag.
** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
in the
LNCS
''Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973.
Overview
The series contains proceedings, post-proceedings, monographs, and Festschrifts. In addition, tutorials, ...
series
** organized annually since 1997
* PODC — ACM
Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
The 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 rela ...
** sponsored by the
ACM special interest groups
SIGACT
ACM SIGACT or SIGACT is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in theoretical computer science. It was founded in 1968 by Patrick C. Fischer.
Publi ...
and
SIGOPS
** organized annually since 1982
* HPDC — ACM
** sponsored by the
ACM for design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing
* PPoPP — ACM SIGPLAN
Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
** sponsored by the
ACM special interest group
SIGPLAN
SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages.
Conferences
* Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
* Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
* International Symposium on M ...
** organised in 1988 and 1990; biennially in 1991–2005; and annually since 2006
* SIROCCO —
International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
** proceedings published by
Springer
Springer or springers may refer to:
Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag.
** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
in the
LNCS
''Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' is a series of computer science books published by Springer Science+Business Media since 1973.
Overview
The series contains proceedings, post-proceedings, monographs, and Festschrifts. In addition, tutorials, ...
series
** organized annually since 1994
* SPAA — ACM
Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
SPAA, the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, is an academic conference in the fields of parallel computing and distributed computing. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery special interest groups SI ...
** formerly: ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
** sponsored by the
ACM special interest groups
SIGACT
ACM SIGACT or SIGACT is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in theoretical computer science. It was founded in 1968 by Patrick C. Fischer.
Publi ...
and
SIGARCH
ACM SIGARCH is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on computer architecture, a community of computer professionals and students from academia and industry involved in research and professional practice related to compu ...
, organized in cooperation with the
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
The European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) is an international organization with a European focus, founded in 1972. Its aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results among theoretical computer scientists as well as ...
(EATCS)
** organized annually since 1989
* CONCUR —
International Conference on Concurrency Theory
The International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) is an academic conference in the field of computer science, with focus on the theory of concurrency and its applications. It is the flagship conference for concurrency theory according ...
DBLP
DBLP is a computer science bibliography website. Starting in 1993 at Universität Trier in Germany, it grew from a small collection of HTML files and became an organization hosting a database and logic programming bibliography site. Since Nove ...
provides information on major computer science journals and proceedings
This
is their page for CONCUR.
** proceedings published in the
LIPIcs–Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
** organised annually since 1988
See also
*
List of computer science conferences
This is a list of academic conferences in computer science. Only conferences with separate articles are included; within each field, the conferences are listed alphabetically by their short names.
General
* FCRC – Federated Computing Research C ...
contains conferences in other areas of
computer science
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.
Notes
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Distributed Computing Conferences Distribution may refer to:
Mathematics
*Distribution (mathematics), generalized functions used to formulate solutions of partial differential equations
* Probability distribution, the probability of a particular value or value range of a vari ...