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.

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