Invited Article Foreword

The Invited Article section of this issue consists of the article “Analysing Snapshot Isolation” by Andrea Cerone and Alexey Gotsman, which won the best paper award at the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC’16). We would like to thank the PODC’16 Program Committee for their help in selecting this invited work, and we also thank editor Rachid Guerraoui for handling the paper.