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SIROCCO 2027 Call for Papers
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34th International Colloquium On Structural Information and Communication Complexity

Larnaca, Cyprus, June 2–4, 2027, https://cyprusconferences.org/sirocco2027

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Important Dates
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Full paper submission: October 31, 2026 (AoE)
Paper notification: January 30, 2027
Conference dates: June 2–4, 2027

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About SIROCCO
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SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between structural knowledge, communication, and computing in decentralized systems that consist of multiple communicating entities. Special emphasis is given to innovative methodological and solution approaches that lead 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. Websites of past SIROCCO conferences can be found at https://sirocco.hiit.fi.
The proceedings of past SIROCCO conferences can be found at https://link.springer.com/conference/sirocco.

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Scope
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Original papers are solicited from all areas of study of local structural knowledge and global communication and computational complexities.
Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include the following (in alphabetical order).

• Biological and nature-inspired distributed algorithms
• Blockchains and related distributed paradigms
• Distributed algorithms and computability
• Distributed graph algorithms
• Distributed quantum computing
• Epistemic modeling and analysis of distributed systems
• Fault tolerance
• Formal verification of distributed systems
• Game theory in distributed computing
• Mobile agents and autonomous distributed systems
• Network modeling and analysis
• Security in distributed computing
• Self-stabilization
• Shared-memory algorithms
• Structural and communication complexity analysis
• Topology in distributed computing
• Wireless, ad-hoc, and peer-to-peer networks

Keeping with the tradition of SIROCCO, submissions on new areas related to the general scope of the conference are also welcome.

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Submission Instructions
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Submissions must report on original research and contain results that have not appeared previously in a regular conference paper and that have not been concurrently submitted to or previously published in a journal or a conference with published proceedings.

Submission format. Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format using EasyChair. Submissions must be written in English and formatted in a single-column format on US letter-size or A4 paper, use at least 11-point font, and have at least 2.5 cm margins.

Submission length. All submissions must start with a cover page, which will include the paper’s title, a short abstract, and, preferably, keywords.
There is no page limit, and authors are encouraged to submit the full version of their paper. The submission should contain, within the first 12 pages (excluding the cover page and bibliographic references), a concise and clear presentation of the primary content and merits of the work.
Content beyond the cover page, references, and the first 12 pages will be read at the discretion of the reviewers only.
A submission that is not accepted as a full paper may be invited as a brief announcement.

Double-blind reviewing. SIROCCO 2027 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way (e.g., author names, affiliations, email addresses, and funding information should not appear in the submission). However, authors are free to disseminate draft versions of their submissions as they normally would (e.g., by posting drafts on the web). Questions about the double-blind reviewing process may be directed to the PC chair by email.

Submission website. Paper submissions will be handled by EasyChair, so please make sure that you have an active account.
Papers must be submitted electronically at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2027.

Submissions deviating from these guidelines as well as papers outside the general scope of the conference may be rejected without consideration of their merits.

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AI policy
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AI policy for authors. All authors of a submission must be human and are fully responsible for the integrity, originality, and copyright of their submission.
Authors may use AI tools for limited purposes such as language editing (e.g., fixing typos or improving grammar) without the need for disclosure.
Any other use of AI tools (including LLMs) must be clearly disclosed in the submission in an AI-disclosure section, and authors must specify which tool was used and for what purpose.
Any undisclosed use of AI tools, or inaccurate representation of AI-generated or AI-modified content, may lead to rejection of the submission or further action.

AI policy for reviewers. Reviewers may use LLM-based tools to assist with the review process, provided that the confidentiality of the content of the submissions is preserved.
However, the review itself must be written solely by the reviewer and must not be drafted, generated, or rewritten with the assistance of AI tools.
Reviewers must rely on their own judgment and retain full responsibility for the content and conclusions of their reviews.

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Proceedings
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The proceedings of SIROCCO 2027 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Please note that inclusion in the proceedings requires an in-person presentation by one of the authors at the conference and at least one full registration for each paper.

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Best Paper Awards
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All regular papers are eligible for the best paper award. Moreover, all regular papers with at least one student author, where the student author(s) have contributed 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 this on the cover page.
The Program Committee may choose not to make the awards or to split them among multiple papers.

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Special Issue
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Selected papers from SIROCCO 2027 will be invited to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.

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Program Committee
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Emmanuelle Anceaume - CNRS, IRISA, Université de Rennes
James Aspnes - Yale University
Hagit Attiya - Technion
Alkida Balliu - Gran Sasso Science Institute (Chair)
Petra Berenbrink - University of Hamburg
Quentin Bramas - University of Strasbourg
Yi-Jun Chang - National University of Singapore
Artur Czumaj - University of Warwick
Francesco d'Amore - Gran Sasso Science Institute
Peter Davies-Peck - Durham University
Michael Elkin - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Laurent Feuilloley - CNRS, LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Orr Fischer - University of Haifa
Maxime Flin - Aalto University
Pierre Fraigniaud - CNRS, IRIF, Université Paris Cité
Diana Ghinea - Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
George Giakkoupis - Inria, Université de Rennes
Magnús M. Halldórsson - Reykjavik University
François Le Gall - Nagoya University
Nancy Lynch - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephan Merz - Inria, LORIA, Université de Lorraine
Alessia Milani - Aix-Marseille University, LIS
Slobodan Mitrović - UC Davis
Augusto Modanese - CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Lata Narayanan - Concordia University
Alexandre Nolin - Télécom SudParis
Ami Paz - CNRS, LISN, Université Paris-Saclay
Peter Robinson - Augusta University
Jared Saia - University of New Mexico
Yuichi Sudo - Hosei University
Robin Vacus - CNRS, LIP6, Sorbonne Université
Giovanni Viglietta - University of Aizu
Jennifer Welch - Texas A&M University

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Organizing Committee
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Chryssis Georgiou - University of Cyprus (General Chair)
Yiannis Ioannou - EasyConferences (Webmaster)
William K. Moses Jr. - Durham University (Publicity Chair)

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Steering Committee
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Keren Censor-Hillel - Technion (chair)
Yuval Emek - Technion (PC Chair 2024)
Ran Gelles - Bar-Ilan University (Member At Large)
Chryssis Georgiou - University of Cyprus (PC Chair 2026)
Ulrich Schmid - TU Wien (PC Chair 2025)