This special issue of Distributed Computing is based on papers that originally appeared as extended abstracts in the Proceedings of the 34rd Symposium on Principles of distributed computing (PODC 2015), held in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, and in the Proceedings of the 35rd Symposium on Principles of distributed computing (PODC 2016), held in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It also include a paper invited to the special issue of PODC 2012. The papers for the Special Issue were chosen by the respective Program Committees from the regular papers presented at the symposium, based on their quality and representation of the spectrum of topics encompassed by the

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PODC 2015 和 PODC 2016 特刊

本期分布式计算特刊基于最初作为扩展摘要出现在在西班牙多诺斯蒂亚-圣塞瓦斯蒂安举行的第 34 届分布式计算原理研讨会 (PODC 2015) 和第 35 届研讨会论文集的论文分布式计算原理（PODC 2016），在美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行。它还包括一篇受邀参加 PODC 2012 特刊的论文。特刊的论文由各自的程序委员会从研讨会上提交的常规论文中选出，基于它们的质量和对所涵盖主题范围的代表性