alternately at PODC and at DISC.

Other closely related conferences include ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (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