Distributed Computing Conferences

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

• DISC — International Symposium on Distributed Computing [1][2][3][4][5][6]
  • formerly: WDAG — Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs
  • organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
  • organized in 1985, 1987, and annually since 1989
  • main locations (1985–2009, 23 conferences): 21 times in Europe
  • web site — proceedings
• ICDCN — International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking [4]
  • formerly: IWDC — International Workshop on Distributed Computing
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1999
  • main locations (1999–2012, 13 conferences): 12 times in Asia, 1 time in Europe
  • web site — proceedings - former proceedings (2001-2005)
• ICDCS — International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems [3][4][5][6][7]
  • sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
  • organized in 1979, 1981, 1983, and annually since 1984
  • main locations (1979–2009, 29 conferences): 17 times in North America, 7 times in Europe, 5 times in Asia
  • web site (2015) — proceedings
• ICPADS — International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems [6][7]
  • sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
  • organized in 1992
  • main locations (1992–2012, 18 conferences): 15 times in Asia, 2 times in North America, 1 times in Oceania
  • web site (2010) — proceedings
• IDCS — International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems
  • organized annually since 2008, next edition: 2-4 Sept. 2015, Windsor, UK
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • web site (2015) — proceedings
• OPODIS — International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems [3][4][5]
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1997
  • main locations (1997–2009, 13 conferences): 9 times in Europe
  • web site — proceedings
• PODC — ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing [1][2][3][6][7]
  • sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS
  • organized annually since 1982
  • main locations (1982–2009, 28 conferences): 28 times in North America
  • web site — proceedings
• PPoPP — ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming [4][6][7]
  • sponsored by the ACM special interest group SIGPLAN
  • organised in 1988 and 1990; biennially in 1991–2005; and annually since 2006
  • main locations (1988–2013, 18 conferences): 16 times in North America, 2 times in Asia
  • web site — proceedings
• SIROCCO — International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity [3][4][5]
  • proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
  • organized annually since 1994
  • main locations (1994–2009, 16 conferences): 15 times in Europe
  • website (2013) — proceedings
• SPAA — ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures [1][3][4][5][6][7]
  • formerly: ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
  • sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGARCH, organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
  • organized annually since 1989
  • main locations (1989–2013, 25 conferences): 17 times in North America, 8 times in Europe
  • web site — proceedings