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SIROCCO 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS
31st International Colloquium On Structural Information and Communication Complexity
Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, May 27--29, 2024
http://sirocco2024.di.unisa.it
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SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between structural knowledge, communication, and computing in decentralized systems of multiple communicating entities. Special emphasis is given to innovative approaches leading to a better understanding of the relationship between computing and communication.

SIROCCO has a tradition of interesting and productive scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, attracting leading researchers in a variety of fields in which communication and knowledge play a significant role. Previous SIROCCO proceedings can be found here(https://link.springer.com/conference/sirocco).

Original papers are solicited from all areas of study of local structural knowledge and global communication and computational complexities. Among the typical areas are
- distributed computing
- communication networks
- game theory
- parallel computing
- social networks
- mobile computing (including autonomous robots)
- peer to peer systems
- communication complexity
- decentralized graph algorithms
- blockchain protocols
- alternative models of decentralized computation
Keeping with the tradition of SIROCCO, new areas are always welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline --- abstract and title: December 11th, 2023 (AoE)
Submission deadline --- full paper: December 17th, 2023 (AoE)
Notification: January 28th, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: TBA

VENUE
SIROCCO 2024 will take place in the enchanting setting of Vietri on the Amalfi Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site, offering a unique experience that blends academic excellence with the beauty of the surroundings: breathtaking landscapes, dramatic cliffs, and rich cultural heritage. SIROCCO 2024 is pleased to work towards a special arrangement with the Lloyd's Baia Hotel for participants who wish to extend their stay in the area.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
A submission must report on original research and contain results that have not appeared previously in a regular conference paper and have not been concurrently submitted to a journal or a conference with published proceedings.

All submissions must start with a title page consisting of the paper’s title, author names, and a short abstract. Excluding the title page and the references, submissions should be no longer than 14 pages. Further details can be added in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the reviewers.

The papers must be submitted in PDF format using EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2024). Submissions must be written in English and formatted in a sin­gle column on US letter-size or A4 size paper, use at least 11-point font, and have at least 2.5 cm margins. Submissions deviating from these guidelines as well as papers outside the scope of the conference may be rejected without consideration of their merits.

PROCEEDINGS:
The proceedings of SIROCCO 2024 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

SPECIAL ISSUE:
Selected papers from SIROCCO 2024 will be invited to a special issue of the Theoretical Computer Science journal.

BEST PAPER AWARDS:
All regular papers are eligible for the best paper award. Moreover, all regular papers that have at least one student author, and these student authors have done most of the work, are also eligible for the best student paper award. If a submission is eligible for the best student paper award, please state that in the title page. The program committee may decline to make the awards or may split them among multiple papers.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alexandre Nolin, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Ami Paz, LISN - CNRS & Paris-Saclay University
Amos Korman, CNRS - FILOFOCS and University of Haifa
Darya Melnyk, TU Berlin
Debasish Pattanayak, Carleton University
Fabien Dufoulon, Lancaster University
Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, King's College London
Irina Kostitsyna, KBR at NASA Ames Research Center
Jared Saia, University of New Mexico
Jennifer Welch, Texas A&M
Joel Rybicki, Humboldt University of Berlin
Karine Altisen, Université Grenoble Alpes
Michal Dory, University of Haifa
Mikaël Rabie, Université Paris Cité
Mor Perry, Tel-Aviv Academic College
Orr Fischer, Weizmann Institute of Science
Peter Davies, University of Durham
Peter Robinson, Augusta University
Prudence Wong, University of Liverpool
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore
Shantanu Das, Aix-Marseille University
Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology
Will Rosenbaum, Amherst College
William K. Moses Jr., Durham University
Yannic Maus, TU Graz
Yukiko Yamauchi, Kyushu University
Yuval Emek, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (chair)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:
Gianluca De Marco, University of Salerno

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
TBA

STEERING COMMITTEE:
Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (chair)
Merav Parter, Weizmann Institute of Science
Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa
Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin
Tomasz Jurdziński, University of Wroclaw