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
Virtualisation, containers, unikernels, microservices, and orchestration
AI for systems/Systems for AI
Energy efficiency / sustainability / green computing
Cluster management (e.g., container management systems, GPU cluster management)
High-performance computing
Mobile and sensor networks
Internet of Things
Fault tolerance / reliability / resilience
Distributed stream processing
Big Data processing and analytics
Security, trust and privacy in distributed systems
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
Quantum and neuromorphic computing
Paper submissions due: 8 November 2026
Author notification: 15 December 2026
Camera-ready full papers due: 20 December 2026
Conference dates: 1 - 5 February 2027
All dates refer to 23:59, anywhere on Earth (AoE) on that day.
ACM will publish the symposium proceedings in conjunction with ACSW 2027. 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 2027 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 2027, APCs are subsidised, 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