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The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual
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 journal ...
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 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at DISC and at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (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
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While the first WDAG was held in Ottawa, 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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, USA. In the same year, its North American sister conference PODC was held in Europe (Zurich) for the first time in its history.PODC
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PODC 2010 Call For Papers


Locations

* 2020: to be held online due to
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* 2019:
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, Hungary * 2018:
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, USA * 2017:
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, Austria * 2016:
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, France * 2015:
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, Japan * 2014: Austin,
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, USA * 2013:
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, Israel * 2012: Salvador, Brazil * 2011:
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, Italy * 2010:
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, USA * 2009:
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, France * 2007:
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, Cyprus * 2006: Stockholm, Sweden * 2005:
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, Poland * 2004:
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, Netherlands * 2003:
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, Italy * 2002:
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, France * 2001:
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, Portugal * 2000:
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* 1999: Bratislava, Slovakia * 1998:
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, Greece * 1997: Saarbrücken, Germany * 1996:
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, Italy * 1995: Mont Saint-Michel, France * 1994: Terschelling, Netherlands * 1993:
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, Switzerland * 1992:
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, Israel * 1991: Delphi, Greece * 1990: Bari, Italy * 1989:
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, France * 1987:
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
, Netherlands * 1985: Ottawa, Canada


See also

* The
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 ...
contains other academic conferences in distributed computing. * The
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 ...
contains other academic conferences in computer science.


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