This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems, Operations and Management, DSOM 2005, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2005.

The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information models and metrics, security and privacy, policy-based management, deployment, auditing and tuning, performance and quality of service, routing, fault management, and distributed management.