Distributed Computing : 14th International Conference DISC 2000 Toledo Spain October 4–6 2000 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing DISC 2000 held in Toledo Spain in October 2000. The 23 revised full papers presented together with one invited contribution were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 100 submissions. The papers address a variety of current issues in distributed computing including mutual exclusion distributed algorithms protocols approximation algorithms distributed cooperation electronic commerce self stabilizing algorithms lower bounds networking broadcasting Internet services interconnection networks distributed objects CORBA etc