由 IEEE 计算机学会和中国铁道学会主办、西南交通大学承办的“2000年自律分布系统国际会议”(简称:IWADS2000)于2000年9月21日至23日在我校学术交流中心举行召开。来自中国、日本、德国、法国、南非、巴基斯坦等国的50多位代表参加了会议。我校校长周本宽教授、日本日立公司首席执行官桑原洋先生担任会议名誉主席;我校钱清泉院士担任大会主席; Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and China Railway Society and hosted by Southwest Jiaotong University, “International Conference on Self-Distributive Systems in 2000” (referred to as: IWADS2000) was held at the Academic Exchange Center of our University from September 21 to September 23, 2000. More than 50 delegates from China, Japan, Germany, France, South Africa and Pakistan attended the meeting. Professor Zhou Benkuan, the president of our university, and Mr. Sang Yuanyang, CEO of Hitachi, Japan, served as honorary chairman of the conference; academician Qian Qingquan, our school, served as the chairman of the conference;