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Use when deciding whether a distributed-computing result belongs at ACM PODC or should be routed to DISC, SPAA, OPODIS/SIROCCO/SSS, STOC/FOCS/SODA, a systems venue (ICDCS/DSN/OSDI/NSDI), a blockchain-theory venue (AFT/FC), or a journal (JACM / Distributed Computing) — and how to avoid the PODC-vs-PODS naming trap by reasoning about the distributed model and the cost measure.

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# PODC Topic Selection

Decide the venue before drafting. PODC — the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing —
is the SIGACT-SIGOPS home for the **theory** of distributed computing. Reviewers read for a
**provable guarantee in a precisely stated distributed model**: an algorithm with a complexity
bound, an impossibility, or a matching lower bound. A technically strong paper whose real
contribution is a *sequential* algorithm, a *measured system*, or a *database* result is respected
and then rejected as out of scope.

## The naming trap, first

**PODC is not PODS.** PODS is the ACM Symposium on **Principles of Database Systems** (SIGMOD week);
its theory is query languages, dependencies, and database complexity. If your result is about data
management rather than distributed processes, agents, or memory, you want PODS, not PODC. One letter,
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