Tart is the world's ugliest stuffed animal, and gets thrown out by his owner because of it. Yet...he still loves her!Wanting to gain her affection, Tart sets off on a quest to find the witch who is said to grant any wish. Though his ugliness remains unchanged, Tart grows and forms new bonds along his journey.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2024, held in Nagoya, Japan, during October 20-22, 2024.The 22 full and 4 invited papers as well as 6 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They deal with the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, perfo...