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20-May-13: Submission is closed

Submission is closed. Good luck!

FOMC 2013 and WTTM 2013 website are available

WTTM 2013 – The 5th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory

  • About:  WTTM is a one-day workshop that focuses on the theoretical challenges and recent achievements in the context of speculative concurrent computing with emphasis on transactional memory. The program consists of contributed and invited talks that are targeted to the general DISC audience.

FOMC 2013 – The 9th ACM Int. Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing

  • About:  FOMC is a one-day workshop (split to two half-days this year) that focuses on the foundations of mobile computing. The program consists of contributed and invited talks that are targeted to the general DISC audience.

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Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award 2013 – Call for Nominations

The Principles of Distributed Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award was created in 2012
to acknowledge and promote outstanding research by doctoral (Ph.D.) students on the
principles of Distributed Computing.

Eligibility

– A nominated dissertation must have been successfully defended in the period January
1st, 2011 through December 31st, 2012.
– If the advisor of the dissertation is in the core committee (see below), it cannot be
nominated, but will be eligible for an additional year.
– The dissertation must be in English: either originally written in English, or translated.
– The main topic of the dissertation must be on the principles of Distributed Computing.
(For a possible indication of what it is meant by this term, see for example the Call
for Papers of DISC and PODC.)

Nomination and Submission

A one-page nomination letter must be submitted by the thesis advisor. The nomination
should highlight the dissertation’s contributions and justify why the dissertation is
worthy of the award.

Submission Checklist

A nomination must include:

– Contact details (affiliation and email addresses) of the advisor and the doctoral student.
– A formal document from the student’s department/institution/organization verifying the
date that the dissertation was successfully defended (a scanned version is acceptable for
the submission, but the original document might be required at a later stage of the
evaluation). If not indicated by the document, also state the period of time the student
was enrolled in the doctoral program.
– A one page justification letter.
– The following four lists of work (co)authored by the candidate:
+ Publications that contain material from the thesis, detailing what material was taken
from which part of the thesis and the parts that are not contained in the thesis.
+ Publications that are cited in the thesis, but do not contain material that also appears
in the thesis.
+ Papers currently under review, including journal submissions of previously published
work, that contain material from the thesis, detailing what material was taken from
which part of thesis and the parts that are not contained in the thesis.
+ Those parts of the thesis which are not included in the other lists.
– A list of awards the student received for the thesis and/or publications related to the
thesis.
– One copy of the dissertation in electronic form (preferably in pdf).
– A separate copy of the abstract in electronic form (either as pdf or plain text).

All of the above must be submitted to Shay Kutten via email by April 30, 2013.

Award Committee and Review Process

The committee will consist of four core members and a number of ad-hoc members,
selected as described below. The core members are:

Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL
Shay Kutten, Technion (Chair)
Alessandro Panconesi, Sapienza

The review process will consist of two stages. The first selection phase, carried out by the
core members, will be based on the nomination letters and publication lists. At the end of
this phase, a short list of dissertations to be considered in the second round will be
compiled.

Based on the short list, the four core members will identify experts on the topics of the
dissertations and invite them to serve as additional (ad hoc) members of the committee.
The committee should include sufficiently many members to allow each dissertation to be
reviewed by three members without requiring any member to review more than two
dissertations.

Evaluation Criteria

The nominated dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the
research contributions in the area of Distributed Computing, potential impact on theory
and practice, and quality of presentation/writing, including thoroughness of description of
related work and understandability of algorithms and proofs.

Award

– This year the award will be presented at PODC.
– The winning dissertation will receive a plaque and a prize of 1000 USD.
– The committee reserves the right to split or decline to give the award.

BDA 2013 Workshop announced

The 1st Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA 2013) – is announced.

BDA 2013 will be co-located with DISC 2013 (Jerusalem, Israel, 14 October 2013). The workshop is chaired by Ziv Bar-Joseph and Yuval Emek.

Submission in now open.

3-Apr-13: Submission is open

Submission link via EasyChair

Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize – Call for Nominations

The 2013 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing

For details see http://www.podc.org/dijkstra/

          Nominations deadline: June 1, 2013.

The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is named for Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002), a pioneer in the area of distributed computing. His foundational work on concurrency, semaphores, mutual exclusion, deadlock, finding shortest paths in graphs, fault-tolerance, self-stabilization, among many other contributions comprises one of the most important supports upon which the field of distributed computing is built. No other individual has had a larger influence on research in principles of distributed computing.

The prize is given for outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing, whose significance and impact on the theory and/or practice of distributed computing has been evident for at least a decade. The Prize includes an award of $2000.

The Prize is sponsored jointly by the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the EATCS Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC). This award is presented annually, with the presentation taking place alternately at ACM PODC and EATCS DISC – this year it will be presented at DISC 2013. The winners of the award will share the cash award, and each winning author will be presented with a plaque. An announcement of each year’s prize recipient(s) will be included in the ACM PODC or EATCS DISC proceedings of that year, describing the paper’s lasting contributions.

 Nominations and Eligibility

Nominations may be made by any member of the scientific community. Each nomination must identify the paper being nominated and include a short paragraph (approximately 200 words) justifying the nomination. Papers appearing in any conference proceedings or journal are eligible, as long as they have had a significant impact on research areas of interest within the theory of distributed computing community, and as long as the year of the original publication is at least ten years prior to the year in which the award is given. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the Prize Committee will not be eligible for consideration.

Please send your nomination to the Chair of the Prize Committee, Gadi Taubenfeld (tgadi[AT]idc.ac.il). Please mind that the nominations deadline is June 1, 2013.

Selection Process

Although the Award Committee is encouraged to consult with the distributed computing community at large, the Award Committee is solely responsible for the selection of the winner of the award. The prize may be shared by more than one paper.  All matters relating to the selection process that are not specified here are left to the discretion of the Prize Committee.

Prize Committee 2013

Yehuda Afek                    Tel-Aviv Univ.

Faith Ellen                         Univ. of Toronto

Boaz Patt-Shamir            Tel-Aviv Univ.

Sergio Rajsbaum             UNAM

Alexander Shvartsman   Univ. of Connecticut

Gadi Taubenfeld, Chair  IDC

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