| 2010 | SEKE | Prodigious Data, Logic, Processing, and Usage. | Alfred Z. Spector |
| 2003 | ICDCS | The Conundrum of Distributed Computing. | Alfred Z. Spector |
| 2003 | ISADS | Distributed Systems: Lessons Learned and Challenges Remaining. | Alfred Z. Spector |
| 2002 | ICS | Challenges and opportunities in autonomic computing. | Alfred Z. Spector |
| 1989 | PODS | Modular Architectures for Distributed and Database Systems. | Alfred Z. Spector |
| 1987 | SIGMOD | Distributed Logging for Transaction Processing. | Dean S. Daniels, Alfred Z. Spector, Dean S. Thompson |
| 1986 | GI | Thoughts on Large Distributed File Systems. | Alfred Z. Spector |
| 1985 | SOSP | The ITC Distributed File System: Principles and Design. | Mahadev Satyanarayanan, John H. Howard, David A. Nichols, Robert N. Sidebotham, Alfred Z. Spector, Michael J. West |
| 1985 | SOSP | Distributed Transactions for Reliable Systems. | Alfred Z. Spector, Dean S. Daniels, Dan Duchamp, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Randy F. Pausch |
| 1984 | SRDS | Support for Distributed Transactions in the TABS Prototype. | Alfred Z. Spector, Jacob Butcher, Dean S. Daniels, Daniel J. Duchamp, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Charles E. Fineman, Abdelsalam Heddaya, Peter M. Schwarz |
| 1983 | PODC | An Algorithm for Replicated Directories. | Dean S. Daniels, Alfred Z. Spector |
| 1981 | SOSP | Performing Remore Operations Efficiently on a Local Computer Network (Summary). | Alfred Z. Spector |