1. IEEE ICDCS 2013 Philadelphia, PA

3. Conference Highlights 8 Workshops o 93 workshop papers 1 Tutorial o GENI 18 Technical Sessions o 61 conference papers 2 Keynotes IEEE TCDP o Annual Meeting 1 Panel Discussion o 1 moderator and 4 panelists Reception Banquet o Awards

4. Organizing Committee General Chair Jie Wu Temple University Program Chair John Douceur Microsoft Research Workshops Co-Chairs Hai Jin Houazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech, China Ivan Stojmenovic Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

5. Acknowledgements Awards Co-Chairs Matt Mutka, Michgan State Univ. Mukesh Singhal, UC-Merced Wei Zhao, Univ. of Macau, Macau Publicity Chair Leszek Lilien, Western Michgan Univ. Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Guojun Wang, Central South Univ., China International Liaison Co-Chairs Chita Das, Penn State Univ Michel Raynal, IRISA-IFSIC, France Makoto Takizawa Seikei Univ., Japan Local Arrangements Chair Chiu C. Tan, Temple Univ. Publication Chair Feng Li, IUPUI Registration Chair Carrie Stein, Ohio State Univ. Finance Chair Dong Xuan, Ohio State Univ. TCDP Chair Jiannong Cao, HK Polytechnic Univ., HK Steering Committee Chair Xiaodtong Zhang, Ohio State Univ.

6. Philadelphia, PA Capital of U.S.A, 1790 - 1800

7. Local Attractions

8. Double Tree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City

9. Hotel Layout

10. Conference Volunteers

11. Thanks to all reviewers, authors, presenters, and attendees of ICDCS 2013 We hope you enjoy the conference and Philadelphia!

12. Welcome to ICDCS 2013 Philadelphia John Douceur, “JD”, Program Chair Microsoft Research

13. Vice Chairs Jon Howell Faith Ellen Aleksandar Kuzmanovic Ricardo BianchiniManuel Costa Cristina Nita-Rotaru Krishna Kant Zhi-Li ZhangYu-Chee Tseng Roy Friedman David Du

14. Tracks & Topics Algorithms and Theory Security and Privacy Fault Tolerance and Dependability Wireless, Mobile, Sensors, and Ubiquitous Computing Big Data, Data Management, and Analytics Cloud Computing and Data-Center Systems P2P, Distributed OS, and Middleware Web-based Systems and Applications Energy Management and Green Computing Crowdsourcing, Social Networks, and Reputation Systems Energy Management and Green Computing Crowdsourcing, Social Networks, and Reputation Systems Big Data Cloud Computing More emphasis on Distributed Computing Systems

15. Review Process (1) 234 Program Committee members, 149 external reviewers Received 464 submissions o Authors chose track at submission time o In a few cases, we changed the track of a submission First review round o Each paper assigned to 4 PC members o Vast majority of reviews completed Second review round o Additional reviews for papers with < 4 first-round reviews o Supplementary reviews for papers with highly divergent opinions o VCs assigned more reviews to selected papers

16. Review Process (2) PC members ranked the order of assigned papers o Instead of accept/reject recommendations o Goal: eliminate bias from narrow view of conference’s submissions Online discussion among reviewers Each track selected a set of top papers o 5 to 13 papers per track o Papers partially ordered within each track TPC meeting – February 22 nd in Redmond, WA – 8 hours o 10 vice chairs and program chair o Loose merge-sort of top papers from all tracks o Determined cutoff point for acceptance o 61 papers accepted – acceptance rate below 14%

17. Program Overview 18 technical sessions – in parallel pairs Two keynote speakers o Kai Li (Princeton) Research vs. Innovation o Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research) Rethinking Eventual Consistency Panel session – Is my Toaster Lying? Security, Privacy and Trust Issues in Internet of Things o Krishna Kant (NSF, Moderator) o Roy H. Campbell (UIUC) o Jianqing Zhang (Intel) o Sajal Das (U. Texas – Arlington) o Matt Blaze (U. Penn)