INTRODUCTION

The sixteenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2005) will be held October 24-26, 2005 in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The Workshop's location is the Campus Nord of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. UPC is in a residential area in the north of the city, at walking distance of hotels and commercial areas and well accessible by public transportation from downtown.

This is the first time that DSOM will be co-located with four other events in order to strengthen the links between our respective communities. These co-located conferences are the 8th International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2005), the 7th Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS 2005), the 5th Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2005), and the International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management (AGNM 2005).