Distributed Computing

DISC, the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of distributed computing. DISC 2001 was held on Oct 3 5, 2001, in Lisbon, Portugal. This volume includes 23 contributed papers. It is expected that these papers will be submitted in more polished form to fully refereed scienti?c journals. The extended abstracts of this year s invited lectures, by Gerard LeLann and David Peleg, will appear in next year s proceedings. We received 70 regular submissions. These submissions were read and eval- ted by the program committee, with the help of external reviewers when needed. Overall, the quality of the submissions was excellent, and we were unable to - cept many deserving papers. This year s Best Student Paper award goes to Yong-Jik Kim for the paper A Time Complexity Bound for Adaptive Mutual Exclusion by Yong-Jik Kim and James H. Anderson. October 2001 Jennifer Welch Organizing Committee Chair: Luis Rodrigues (University of Lisbon) Publicity: Paulo Ver ?ssimo (University of Lisbon) Treasurer: Filipe Araujo (University of Lisbon) Web: Alexandre Pinto (University of Lisbon) Registration: Hugo Miranda (University of Lisbon) Steering Committee Faith Fich (U. of Toronto) Michel Raynal (vice-chair) (IRISA) Maurice Herlihy (Brown U. ) Andr e Schiper (chair) (EPF Lausanne) Prasad Jayanti (Dartmouth) Jennifer Welch (Texas A&M U. ) Shay Kutten (Technion) Program Committee Marcos K. Aguilera (Compaq SRC) Mark Moir (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Lorenzo Alvisi (U. Texas, Austin) Stephane Perennes (CNRS U.