Deakin University, Melbourne, 9 – 13 February 2026
AusPDC 2026 will be held in conjunction with the 2026 Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) at Deakin University’s City Campus in Melbourne, Victoria, during the week commencing 9 February 2026.
The Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC) is a premier gathering for distributed systems researchers in the Australasian region, covering a diverse array of topics in parallel and distributed computing.
In 2026, we are proud to unveil a revitalized event, featuring an expansive program that includes keynotes from prominent Australian researchers, technical paper presentations, engaging tutorials, Panel Discussions, and industry presentations.
The 24th instalment of this symposium will convene in 2026 at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. It will be held as an integral part of the Australian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2026), the foremost occasion for Computer Science researchers in the Australasian region.
The symposium primarily targets researchers from Australia and New Zealand. However, in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to foster collaboration among distributed virtual organizations, we actively encourage international researchers to submit papers and participate.
Topics of interest for the symposium include (but are not limited to):
Cloud/Fog/Edge computing
Serverless computing and FaaS
Microservice application management and orchestration
Cluster management (e.g., container management systems, GPU cluster management)
High-performance computing
Artificial intelligence applied to distributed and parallel systems
Mobile, sensor networks
Internet of Things
Distributed stream processing
Big Data processing and analytics
Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers
Security, trust and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge
Large-scale data management (e.g., storage, placement, replication)
Network function virtualisation and software-defined networks
Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains
Service computing and workflow management
Performance evaluation and modelling
Datacentre and Interconnection networks
Performance accelerators
Parallel programming models, languages and compilers
Operating systems and runtime systems
e-Science and e-Health Applications
Paper submissions due: 25 November 2025 15 December 2025
Author notification: 12 December 2025 15 January 2026
Camera-ready full papers due: 18 January 2026
Conference dates: 9 - 13 February 2026
All dates refer to 23:59, anywhere on earth (AoE) on that day.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2026. Papers should be formatted in double columns according to the ACM conference paper formatting guidelines, ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions:
All submissions need to be double-blind.
Submissions must be in English.
Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers, 4 pages for short papers, 2 pages for posters, and 1 page for tutorials.
Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted.
Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work.
Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference.
If the submission is for a tutorial, the word “tutorial” must appear in the title, which will be removed after the review process.
Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2026 Easy Chair Submission Site. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select the "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) now follows the ACM Open publishing model. Some accepted papers may require an Article Processing Charge (APC) unless the authors’ institution is part of ACM Open or qualifies for a waiver. For 2026, APCs are subsidised ($250 for ACM/SIG members, $350 for non-members), and financial hardship waivers are available.
To check whether an APC applies to your article, please follow the official ACM author guidance:
👉 https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance
A selection commission chaired by the AusPDC technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference.
Mohammad Goudarzi, Monash University, Australia
Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Azadeh Ghari Neiat, The University of Queensland, Australia
Amani Abusafia, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Maria Read, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jianzhong Qi, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Richard Sinnott, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Md Redowan Mahmud, Curtin University, Australia
Shashikant Ilager, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tianzhang He, Monash University, Australia
Hoa Nguyen, CSIRO, Australia
Zhiyu Wang, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Xu Bai, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
Yogesh Sharma, University of Regina, Canada
Young Lee, Macquarie University, Australia
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden
Wenhong Tian, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Claudio Cicconetti, IIT-CNR, Italy