OPODIS, the International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on Distributed Computing among researchers from around the world. The aim of this conference is to present recent research results in Distributed Computing and to explore directions for future research in this field.

The topics discussed in this conference cover a wide range of issues and prove the dynamism of the scientific community on this essential part of Computer Science : Distributed Algorithms, Concurrency Control and Synchronization, Self-Stabilization, Reliability and Fault-Tolerance, Performance Analysis and Distributed Complexity, Networks, Routing and Communication Techniques, Distributed Computing issues in LANs, WANs and the Internet...