Distributed Computing : 16th International Conference DISC 2002 Toulouse France October 28–30 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing DISC 2002 held in Toulouse France in October 2002. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. Among the issues addressed are broadcasting secure computation view maintenance communication protocols distributed agreement self stabilizing algorithms message passing systems dynamic networks condition monitoring systems shared memory computing Byzantine processes routing failure detection compare and swap operations cooperative computation and consensus algorithms