The papers in this volume were presented at the 11th International Sym- sium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), held November 3-6, 2009 in Lyon, France. SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design anddevelopmentoffault-tolerantdistributedsystemswithself-*attributes,such as self-stabilization, self-con?guration, self-organization, self-management, se- healing, self-optimization, self-adaptiveness, self-protection, etc. SSS started as theWorkshoponSelf-StabilizingSystems(WSS),the?rsttwoofwhichwereheld inAustinin1989andinLasVegasin1995.Startingin1995,theworkshopbegan to be held biennially; it was held in Santa Barbara (1997), Austin (1999), and Lisbon (2001). As interest grew and the community expanded, in 2003, the title of the forum was changed to the Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS). SSS was organized in San Francisco in 2003 and in Barcelona in 2005. As SSS broadened its scope and attracted researchers from other communities, a couple of changes were made in 2006. It became an annual event, and the name of the conferencewaschangedto the InternationalSymposiumonStabilization,Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS). The last three SSS conferences were held in Dallas (2006), Paris (2007), and Detroit (2008).
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2009, held in Lyon, France, in November 2009.
The 49 revised full papers and 14 brief announcements presented together with three invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 submissions. The papers address all safety and security-related aspects of self-stabilizing systems in various areas. The most topics related to self-* systems. The special topics were alternative systems and models, autonomic computational science, cloud computing, embedded systems, fault-tolerance in distributed systems / dependability, formal methods in distributed systems, grid computing, mobility and dynamic networks, multicore computing, peer-to-peer systems, self-organizing systems, sensor networks, stabilization, and system safety and security.