PODC 2012 - 31st Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

PODC solicits papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The common goal of the conference is to improve understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

distributed algorithms: design, analysis, and complexity
communication networks: architectures, services, protocols, applications
multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
shared and transactional memory, synchronization protocols, concurrent programming
fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, self organization
Internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems
distributed operating systems, middleware platforms, databases
game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, distributed data management
high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents
context-aware distributed systems
security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
specification, semantics, verification, and testing of distributed systems