MythorReality?,¿toprovideaforumforopendiscussionofthestate-of-the-art andrequirementsforquality-of-servicecon?guration,monitoring,andenfor- ment. Thisworkshopowesitssuccesstoallthemembersofthetechnicalprogram committee,whodidanexcellentjobofencouragingtheircolleaguesinthe?eld tosubmithigh-qualitypapers,andwhodevotedalotoftheirtimetohelpcreate anoutstandingtechnicalprogram. Wethankthemsincerely. Wearealsovery gratefultothevolunteerreviewerswhogavegenerouslyoftheirtimetomake thereviewprocesse?ective. October2002 GilbertBabin MetinFeridun PeterKropf Organization The13thIFIP/IEEEInternationalWorkshoponDistributedSystems:Opera- onsandManagement(DSOM2002)wassponsoredbyIFIP(TC6,Communi- tionSystems;WG6. 6,ManagementofNetworksandDistributedSystems),the IEEECommunicationsSociety,theMinist`eredelaRecherche,delaScienceetde laTechnologieduQüebec,IBM,CIRANO(CenterforInteruniversityResearch andAnalysisonOrganizations),CRT(CenterofResearchonTransportation), andBombardier. ConferenceChairs MetinFeridun,IBMResearch,Switzerland PeterKropf,UniversityofMontreal,Canada LocalArrangementsChair GilbertBabin,HEC,Montreal,Canada TechnicalProgramCommittee SebastianAbeck,UniversityofKarlsruhe,Germany NikosAnerousis,Voicemate,USA GilbertBabin,HECMontreal,Canada RaoufBoutaba,UniversityofWaterloo,Canada TorstenBraun,UniversityofBern,Switzerland MarcusBrunner,NECEurope,Germany MarkBurgess,UniversityCollegeOslo,Norway OmarCherkaoui,UniversityofQuebecinMontreal,Canada AlexanderClemm,CiscoSystems,USA TheodorCrainic,UniversityofMontreal,Canada MarkusDebusmann,FHWiesbaden,Germany GabiDreo-Rodosek,LRZMunich,Germany OlivierFestor,LORIA/INRIA,France KurtGeihs,TechnicalUniversityBerlin,Germany Heinz-GerdHegering,UniversityofMunich,Germany JosephHellerstein,IBMResearch,USA GabrielJakobson,GabrielJakobsonAssociates,USA BrigitteJaumard,UniversityofMontreal,Canada AlexanderKeller,IBMResearch,USA YoshiakiKiriha,NEC,Japan LundyLewis,AprismaManagementTechnologies,USA VIII Organization AntonioLiotta,Univer