Self-Stabilization at WSS'01 and DISC'01 Ted Herman D e p a r t m e n t o f C o m p u t e r Science University of Iowa Iowa City IA 52240 herman~cs, uiowa, edu The Fifth International Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems (WSS 2001) was held this year in conjunction with the Fifteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing (DISC 2001) during the first week of October, in Lisbon, Portugal. WSS 2001 had more submissions t h a n any previous WSS--27 papers, of which 14 appear in the proceedings, which are published as Springer LNCS number 2194. An invited presentation, four short presentations, and an open problems session complemented the accepted paper presentations at WSS 2001. Remarkably, the proceedings of DISC 2001 include four papers directly concerned with self-stabilization, another paper that introduces new self-stabilizing algorithms, and a sixth paper that analyzes self-stabilizing algorithms. The combination of these two events provides excellent material for a report on the current trends in the area. The model of mobile agents was the subject of the workshop's invited presentation, Cooperating Mobile Agents and Stabilization, by Sukumar Ghosh. In a previous paper presented at C O C O O
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