This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International
Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, IWSOS 2011, held in Karlsruhe,
Germany, in February 2011.

The 9 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were
carefully selected from 25 initial submissions. It was the 5th workshop
in a series of multidisciplinary events dedicated to self-organization
in networked systems with main focus on communication and computer
networks. The papers address theoretical aspects of self-organization as
well as applications in communication and computer networks and robot
networks.