This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on
Principles of Distributed Systems OPODIS 2014 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy in December 2014. The
32 papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from
98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on consistency distributed graph
algorithms fault tolerance models radio networks robots self-stabilization shared data
structures shared memory synchronization and universal construction.