This volume contains the accepted papers from the 3rd International School
and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems held in Guadalajara, Mexico,
January 24–30, 2004. This event was organized by the teams made up of members
of CINVESTAV Guadalajara, CUCEI, the Computer Science Department of
the Centre of Research and Advances Studies at the CUCEA campus of the
University of Guadalajara, Mexico, the University of Rostock, Germany and
ITESO, Guadalajara. The ISSADS symposium provides a forum for scientists
and people from industry to discuss the progress of applications and theory of
distributed systems. This year there were over 300 participants from 3 continents,
among which about 20 percent came from industry