Invited Article Foreword

The Invited Article section of this issue consists of the article “A Distributed (2 + ε)Approximation for Vertex Cover in O(log /εlog log )Rounds” by Reuven Bar-Yehuda, Keren Censor-Hillel, and Gregory Schwartzman, which won the Best Student Paper Award at the 35th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC’16). We want to thank the PODC’16 Program Committee for their help in selecting this invited article.