List of distributed computing conferences

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This is a selected list of international academic conferences in the fields of distributed computing, parallel computing, and concurrent computing.

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Selection criteria

The conferences listed here are major conferences of the area; they have been selected using the following criteria:-

  1. the notability of the conference has been confirmed by multiple independent sources; for example, it has been mentioned in textbooks [1] [2] [3] or other sources, [4] [5] or it has received a high ranking [6]
  2. the conference focuses on distributed and parallel computing (instead of having a much broader scope such as algorithms in general)
  3. 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

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Nancy Ann Lynch: Distributed Algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, ISBN   978-1-55860-348-6. Section 1.4, "Bibliographic notes", mentions the following conferences: PODC, FOCS, STOC, SPAA, WDAG.
  2. 1 2 3 Gerard Tel: Introduction to Distributed Algorithms, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN   978-0-521-79483-1. Sect. 1.3.3, "Research field", mentions the following conferences: PODC, WDAG/DISC, STOC, FOCS.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander A. Shvartsman: Do-All Computing in Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity, Springer, 2007, ISBN   978-0-387-30918-7. Section "Bibliographic notes" in "Preface" mentions the following conferences: PODC, SPAA, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ICDCS, DISC, OPODIS, SIROCCO.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PODC mailing list instructions mention the following conferences (in addition to PODC): DISC, ICDCN, ICDCS, OPODIS, PPoPP, SIROCCO, SPAA, SSS.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roger Wattenhofer: PODC 2007 Statistics Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine . 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.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences Archived 2009-10-02 at the Wayback Machine . In this ranking, the tiers Archived 2008-07-18 at the Wayback Machine 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.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 In this ranking, the tiers Conferences on Top Tier include PPoPP, and the Second Tier include PODC SPAA ICDCS ICPADS CCC.
  8. DBLP provides information on major computer science journals and proceedings. This is their page for CONCUR.

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