Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Design and analysis of distributed algorithms

• Synchronization, concurrent algorithms, shared and transactional memory

• Design and analysis of concurrent and distributed data structures

• Communication networks (protocols, architectures, services, applications)

• High-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing

• Mesh and ad-hoc networks (wireless, mobile, sensor), location and context-aware systems

• Mobile agents, robots, and rendezvous

• Internet applications, social systems, peer-to-peer and overlay networks

• Distributed operating systems, middleware, and distributed database systems

• Programming languages, formal methods, specification and verification applied to distributed systems

• Embedded and energy-efficient distributed systems

• Distributed event processing

• Distributed storage and file systems, large-scale systems, and big data analytics

• Dependable distributed algorithms and systems

• Self-stabilization, self-organization, autonomy

• Security and privacy, cryptographic protocols

• Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing

• Randomization in distributed computing

• Biological distributed algorithms