Welcome to the Research Group “Theory of Distributed Systems”
We are working on models, methods and architectures for distributed systems. Besides the development of algorithms and data structures for efficient and scalable systems, we are also concerned with methods for robust, secure, self-stabilizing and self-optimizing distributed systems.
Teaching in the SS 2025
Theses
If you are interested in a topic for a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis, please contact Prof. Dr. Christian Scheideler via e-mail. Please specify in this email which theory courses you have already passed.
Publications
2024
Efficient Shape Formation by 3D Hybrid Programmable Matter: An Algorithm for Low Diameter Intermediate Structures
K. Hinnenthal, D.J. Liedtke, C. Scheideler, in: A. Casteigts, F. Kuhn (Eds.), 3rd Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2024), Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2024, p. 15:1–15:20.
Routing Schemes for Hybrid Communication Networks
S. Coy, A. Czumaj, C. Scheideler, P. Schneider, J. Werthmann, Theoretical Computer Science 985 (2024).
Universal Coating by 3D Hybrid Programmable Matter
I. Kostitsyna, D.J. Liedtke, C. Scheideler, in: Y. Emek (Ed.), Structural Information and Communication Complexity, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024.
2023
Beep-and-Sleep: Message and Energy Efficient Set Cover
T. Götte, C. Kolb, C. Scheideler, J. Werthmann, Theor. Comput. Sci. 950 (2023) 113756.
Routing Schemes for Hybrid Communication Networks
J. Werthmann, C. Scheideler, S. Coy, A. Czumaj, P. Schneider, in: 2023.
The canonical amoebot model: algorithms and concurrency control
J.J. Daymude, A.W. Richa, C. Scheideler, Distributed Comput. 36 (2023) 159–192.
2022
2022 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
M. Aguiliera, A.W. Richa, A.A. Schwarzmann, A. Panconesi, C. Scheideler, P. Woelfel, in: A. Milani, P. Woelfel (Eds.), PODC ’22: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Salerno, Italy, July 25 - 29, 2022, ACM, 2022, p. 1.
36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2022, October 25-27, 2022, Augusta, Georgia, USA
C. Scheideler, ed., 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2022, October 25-27, 2022, Augusta, Georgia, USA, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022.
A self-stabilizing Hashed Patricia Trie
T. Knollmann, C. Scheideler, Information and Computation (2022).
Brief Announcement: Fault-Tolerant Shape Formation in the Amoebot Model
I. Kostitsyna, C. Scheideler, D. Warner, in: J. Aspnes, O. Michail (Eds.), 1st Symposium on Algorithmic Foundations of Dynamic Networks (SAND 2022), Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2022, p. 23:1–23:3.
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Office: F2.326
Phone: +49 5251 60-6728
E-mail: scheideler@uni-paderborn.de
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