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We are happy to announce that the 26th edition of the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2025) will be held at IIT Hyderabad, India, from 4th – 7th January 2025.

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops affiliated with the conference. Workshops should emphasize current topics of interest within the broader areas of Distributed Computing and Communication Networks. Some of the topics of interest are mentioned below, but not limited to:

  • 5G and Beyond
  • Ad-hoc, Sensor, PAN and Mesh Networks
  • Backscatter and Ultra-low Power Networks
  • Biological Distributed Algorithms
  • Blockchains
  • Cloud Computing and Big Data Processing
  • Cognitive Networking
  • Disaster response
  • Distributed AI/ML
  • Distributed Data-Analytics
  • Distributed game theory
  • Energy and Sustainability
  • Edge, Fog Computing and Mobile Offloading
  • Fault-tolerance, Reliability, and Availability of Distributed Systems
  • Federated Learning
  • Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical systems
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • Next-generation internet
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Peer-to-Peer Networks - Architectures and Algorithms
  • Security, Privacy and Game Theory in Distributed Computing and Networking
  • Smart City Applications
  • Self-* (Self-organization, Self-stabilization, Self-healing etc) and Autonomic Computing
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicular Networks

The workshops may include a mix of regular papers, invited presentations and panels that encourage the participation of attendees in active discussion. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting new ideas in a generally more focused area than the main conference. The objective of these workshops is to enable stimulating discussions on state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Workshops should be organized to promote such lively interaction. Plans to promote interaction and discussion should be clearly addressed in workshop proposals. It is expected that workshop papers will be published along with the main conference papers as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be indexed by the ACM Digital Library, subject to pending ACM approval. Workshop organisers should follow ACM Peer Review Policy while accepting papers.

New Open Access Publishing Model for ACM

Please note that ACM has moved to a new open access publishing model for all conference proceedings to be published via ACM ICPS. The authors have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to ACM (which is beyond the regular conference registration fee) if the corresponding author’s organization is not a member of the ACM Open program. Please check the details through this link: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Several institutes across the globe are already members of the ACM Open program. The authors can use the following link to check if their organization is a member under the ACM Open program: https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants. For any clarifications, please contact icps-info@acm.org.

Format of the Proposal

Each workshop proposal (maximum 5 pages) must include

  • Title of the workshop
  • Description of the technical issues covered, emphasizing the timeliness of the proposed workshop (1-page maximum)
  • Workshop Organizers (names, affiliation and contact information), limiting up to 2 workshop chairs for a half-day workshop and 3 workshop chairs for a full-day workshop
  • A short biography of the organizers (up to 200 words)
  • Names of potential participants, such as program committee members and invited speakers (an indication that speakers accepted to participate is a plus)
  • Planned format of the workshop, including:
    • Duration of the workshop: Half-day, Full-day and tentative schedule
    • Preferred day of the workshop: Before or after the conference
    • Number of refereed papers, hot topic sessions, keynotes, panels
    • Unique, creative and novel workshops formats are strongly encouraged
  • Draft Call for Papers
  • A description of the publicity and promotion plan
  • Workshop potential website address (if available at the time of the proposal - will be required later if the workshop proposal is accepted)
  • If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including the number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees, etc.

In order to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in ICDCN, the ICDCN steering committee set an upper limit of 40% on the acceptance rate for ICDCN Workshop papers. Hence, it is desirable for the organizers of the accepted workshops to adhere to that acceptance rate for their respective workshops. Also workshop organisers are not encouraged to submit papers in their own workshop.

Timelines for the Workshop

The proposals should be submitted (in PDF format) no later than July 10, 2024, to the ICDCN 2024 Workshop chairs with “ICDCN 2025 Workshop Proposal” in the subject.

  • Proposal Deadline: July 10th, 2024
  • Notification of Selection: July 15th, 2024
  • Opening of Workshop Papers for Acceptance: July 23rd, 2024
  • Deadline for Workshop Papers: September 15th, 2024
  • Decision on Acceptance/Rejection of the Workshop Papers: October 6th, 2024 (hard deadline)
  • Camera-Ready Papers Version Due: October 20th, 2024 (hard deadline)

For further queries please write to Amitabh Trehan amitabh.trehan@durham.ac.uk and Punyasha Chatterjee punyasha.chatterjee@jadavpuruniversity.in