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Distrib. Comput. (2008) 20:389390 DOI 10.1007/s00446-008-0054-4
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the special issue dedicated to the DISC 20th anniversary
Shlomi Dolev Alex Shvartsman
Published online: 11 March 2008 Springer-Verlag 2008
This issue celebrates 20 years of the International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC). DISC is organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
The symposium was established in 1985 as a biannual International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs (WDAG). The scope was soon expanded to cover all aspects of distributed algorithms, and eventually an even a broader spectrum of research topics dealing with distributed computing. To reect this, in 1998 the name of the forum was changed to the International Symposium on DIStributed Computing, or DISC. For two decades the symposium represented a broad community of researchers working on principles of distributed system design and distributed computability issues.
The symposium created and maintained an especially warm and collegial atmosphere for a vibrant community of researchers with shared interests in distributed computing, with the help of numerous dedicated international organizers providing venues for the annual meeting in many exciting geographic locations. Over the years, a plethora of creative, deep, and fundamental results in distributed computing were presented at the symposium and published in its proceedings. In recent years, selected papers from the symposium
S. Dolev (B)
Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion...