6th International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good

2026, Tarragona, Spain

Co-located with ACM Middleware 2026

About

The DICG'26 workshop is co-located with ACM Middleware 2026, which takes place from December 14th to 18th, 2026 in Tarragona, Spain.

This workshop is focused on distributed infrastructure to enable human interactions and economic activity in general with a focus on the common good. Daily life is transitioning to digital infrastructures, including friendships, education, employment, health-care, finances, family connections, and more. The common good is reached when we work together to improve the well-being of people in our society and the wider world.

Call for Papers
Scope:

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Distributed algorithms
  • Trust and reputation systems
  • Fault tolerance
  • Self-sovereign identity
  • Peer-to-peer networks
  • Solutions to tragedy of the commons
  • Decentralized markets, mechanism design
  • Incentives for participants
  • Fairness in market systems
  • Decentralized governance
  • Local-first Software
  • Collaborative Systems
  • Decentralized machine learning
  • AI agentic systems and economic agents
  • Decentralized coordination of AI services
Important Dates:

  • Paper submissions: September 17, 2026 (AOE)
  • Notification of acceptance: October 12, 2026 (AOE)
  • Camera-ready version: October 16, 2026 (AOE)

Submission Guidelines:

Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages in the standard, 10pt ACM SIGPLAN format. The page limits include figures, tables, and references. All submitted papers will be judged through single-blind reviewing.

Please submit your manuscripts here.

Publication of Accepted Papers:

All accepted papers will appear in a Middleware 2026 companion proceedings, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library prior to the workshop. At least one of the authors will have to register for the workshop and present the paper.

Program

TBA

Accepted Papers

TBA

Organization

General Co-chairs:

Organization Chairs:

Program Committee:

  • David Bromberg (Inria, Université de Rennes 1, France)
  • Martijn de Vos (EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Davide Frey (Inria, France)
  • Matt Garnett (Ethereum Foundation)
  • Jan Gorzny (Zircuit)
  • Thomas Hardjono (MIT, United States)
  • Can Umut Ileri (IOTA Foundation)
  • Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Leander Jehl (University of Stavanger, Norway)
  • Erick Lavoie (University of Basel, Switzerland)
  • Amir H. Payberah (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
  • Jan Rellermeyer (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
  • Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University, USA)
  • Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA)
  • Florian Tschorsch (TU Dresden, Germany)
  • Andreas Veneris (University of Toronto, Canada)