6th International Workshop on Performance and Energy Efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems
Nowadays, concurrent and distributed systems play a role in a variety of computing applications. This is supported by the widespread use of computing architectures based on multi-core processors or distributed computing units, which have become a de facto standard at any system scale.
However, the increasing level of hardware parallelism and heterogeneity has made concurrent and distributed systems even more challenging to design, analyse and optimize. In particular, this concerns factors like performance and energy efficiency, which are known to be highly interrelated. Nevertheless, they play key roles, especially given the recent rise in energy demand from many IT applications. Examples include AI model training and inference, Big Data Analytics, high-performance computing and simulation, cryptography, high-resolution video encoding, and many more besides.
In concurrent and distributed systems, energy efficiency and performance are affected in complex ways by multiple factors, such as the concurrent use of computing resources, the distributed communication, the presence of (distributed) data dependencies and the need to synchronize the execution of concurrent threads/processes. However, these and other factors also offer opportunities to be explored in the design of techniques and tools for improving both energy efficiency and performance.
PECS aims to establish a venue for both academia and industry to discuss challenges and perspectives, and to explore methods, techniques and tools, for energy efficiency and performance analysis and optimization in concurrent and distributed systems.
PECS calls for high-quality research papers on all aspects of energy efficiency, performance and their interrelations in concurrent and/or distributed computing systems, focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:
PECS is colocated with the 32th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-PAR).
| Paper Submission Deadline | May 15, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE |
| Paper Notification of Acceptance | June 19, 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Submission | July 10, 2026 |
| Workshop Day | August 24-25, 2026 |
All papers must be submitted using EasyChair submission system.
Papers should present novel contributions and should not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English, with a minimum length of 10 pages and a maximum length of 12 pages, including text, references, appendices and figures. Papers with less than 10 pages are considered short and can be presented at the workshop, but they will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Papers should be formatted according to Spinger LNCS Proceedings Guidelines.
PECS employs a double-blind peer review process, i.e., the identities of authors and reviewers are not disclosed to each other. Therefore, all information that may allow authors to be identified must be removed from the submitted papers. In particular, this includes author names and affiliations, acknowledgments, funding information, and any references to authors’ previous work that may reveal their identity. Furthermore, authors should ensure that PDF metadata does not contain identifying information. All the above details may be added later to accepted papers. Submissions that fail to adhere to these anonymity requirements may be rejected without review.
Authors are encouraged to ensure their papers clearly outline the following aspects:
Reviewers will take these aspects into account during the evaluation process.
Any use of AI-generated content, including text, images, data, etc, must be disclosed in a specific section (for example, in a section at the end of the paper entitled “Information on AI-Generated Content”), except in cases where AI tools are used solely for improving presentation, such as for grammatical corrections or syntactic checks. Authors are solely responsible for the content of their papers.
Workshop proceedings will be published in a dedicated Springer LNCS volume. Only accepted papers presented at the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings (excluding short papers). At least one author per paper is required to register for the workshop.