Vision

The Special Interest Group on Distributed Systems is a SIG under the Computer Society of India (CSI). Its main objective is to foster the growth of distributed systems research community in India. .

Activities

SIGDS plans to realize its vision by conducting annual workshops bringing together researchers, students and practitioners from all over the world, conducting tutorial sessions, floating student projects etc. The expected outcomes include strengthening the work on distributed systems and actionable agenda like evolving collaboration among practitioners and researchers.

Workshop on Cloud Computing

The Workshop on Cloud Computing will be held from August 18-20, 2010 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. This event is organised by Computer Society of India Div IV (Communication), Chennai Chapter and SIG-Distributed Systems and IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter. Registrations are closed.

PhD. symposium at IIT Bombay, March 6, 2010

The PhD. symposium, organized by SIG-DS, will commence after the lecture series on Cloud Computing at IIT Bombay on March 6. Overall six students from various IITs, IIITs would be presenting their work.

Schedule is as follows:
2.30pm - 4.00pm
4.15pm - 5.15pm

Talk titles

1. An Autonomous Agent Approach to Query Optimization in Stream Grids
   Saikat Mukherjee, IIIT Bangalore
   
2. A learning scheduler for Hadoop
   Jaideep Dhok, IIIT Hyderabad
   
3. Learning Based Opportunistic Admission Control Algorithm for MapReduce as a Service
   Nitesh Maheswari, IIIT Hyderabad
   
4. P2P Search Problem, its implications and possible approaches
   Harisankar H., IIT Madras
   
5. Richer Programming Abstractions for Cloud Environments
   Sriram Kailasam, IIT Madras
   
6. Empirical approach to VM characterization and Affinity-aware VM placement
   Sujesha Sudevalayam, IIT Bombay