The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is an

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in the field of

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organised annually by the

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(special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS).

Scope and related conferences

Work presented at PODC typically studies theoretical aspects of distributed computing, such as the design and analysis of distributed algorithms. The scope of PODC is similar to the scope of

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 ...

(DISC), with the main difference being geographical: DISC is usually organized in European locations,DISC
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. while PODC has been traditionally held in North America.PODC
in

. The ''Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing'' is presented alternately at PODC and at DISC. Other closely related conferences include ACM

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(SPAA), which – as the name suggests – puts more emphasis on parallel algorithms than distributed algorithms. PODC and SPAA have been co-located in 1998, 2005, and 2009.

Reputation and selectivity

PODC is often mentioned to be one of the top conferences in the field of distributed computing. Nancy Ann Lynch: ''Distributed Algorithms'', Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, . Section 1.4, "Bibliographic notes", mentions the following conferences in this order: 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 in this order: 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 in this order: PODC, SPAA, STOC, SODA, FOCS, ICDCS, DISC, OPODIS, SIROCCO. In the 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences, PODC was the only conference in the field that received the highest ranking, "A+". During the recent years 2004–2009, the number of regular papers submitted to PODC has fluctuated between 110 and 224 each year. Of these submissions, 27–40 papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference each year; acceptance rates for regular papers have been between 16% and 31%.

History

PODC was first organised on 18–20 August 1982, in

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, Canada. PODC was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference in 1996, 1999 and 2011. Between 1982 and 2009, PODC was always held in a North American location – usually in the United States or Canada, and once in Mexico. In 2010, PODC was held in Europe for the first time in its history, and in the same year, its European sister conference DISC was organised in the United States for the first time in its history. PODC 2010 took place in

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, Switzerland, and DISC 2010 took place in

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. Since 2000, a review of the PODC conference appears in the year-ending issue of the ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column. The review is usually written by a member of the distributed computing research community.

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PODC proceedings
in ACM Digital Library.
PODC proceedings information
in

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Scope and related conferences

Reputation and selectivity

History

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