Considers the challenges and open problems raised by developments in the field of applications in parallel and distributed computing, and discusses the ideas, concepts and methods supported by new technologies.

Applications in parallel and distributed computing are gaining increasing impact because they are the key to the co-operation, and even integration, of large organizations and services. The ever-growing demand of computations, the mass of related distributed information and reliability requirements have overtaken single machines, forcing the use of interconnected ones. This publication considers the many challenges and open problems raised by developments and discusses the new ideas, concepts and methods supported by new technologies.

Part 1 Parallel and distributed algorithms: computation of 2-D wavelet transforms on the connection machine-2, M. Misra and T. Nichols
an incremental neural classifer on MIMD parallel computer, A. Azcarraga et al
adaptive biases and gains for backpropagation algorithm, T. Chen and M. Tagaki
on the use of multi-threaded operating system for an efficient parallel implementation of the ML-EM algorithm for PET image reconstruction, K. Bastiaens et al
data parallel sparse matrix computation on CM-2 and CM-5 for iterative methods, S.G. Petiton
new parallel Newton-Raphson methods and their implementations with accumulate instructions, W. Cunto
a proof system for a simple data-parallel programming language, L. Bouge et al
effective deadlock resolution in distributed systems, S. Lee and J.L. Kim
parallel computation of the restricted transitive closure of a database relation, A.A. Toptsis
implementation and performance of the parallel ecological simulations, W. Maniatty et al
applying semi-systolic techniques for SIMD programming, T. Risset. Part 2 Distributed programming: definition and implementation of a flexible communication primitive for distributed programming, A. Mostefaoui and M. Raynal
execution reply with compact logs for shared-memory programs, L.J. Levrouw et al
using specifications for debugging parallel programs, M. Frey and A. Weininger
an efficient implementation of sequentially consistent distributed shared memories, M. Mizuno et al
exploiting transaction and object semantics to increase concurrency, A. Rakotonirainy
program and file allocation algorithm for large scale distributed systems, R. Boutaba and B. Folliot
compiling geometric paradigms through local communications, S. Orlando and M. Vanneschi
code generation in automatic parallelizers, J.-F. Collard
fine grain parallelisation of functional programs for VLIW or super-scaler architectures, M. Pouzet
specification of compositional active objects using modular colored nets, H. Bachatene et al
benchmarks specification and generation for performance estimation on MIMD machines, C. Figueira and E. Hernandez
a study in EPF and C-Linda implementations of distinct element model, S.K. Tang and R. Zurawski. Part 3 Distributed systems and architecture: replicated data management in mobile environments - anything new under the sun?, D. Barbara-Milla and H. Garcia-Molina
WEA, a distributed object manager based on a workspace hierarchy, D. Donsez et al
an evaluation of hardware and software data prefetching, J.L. Baer and T.F. Chen
real time segmentation of image sequences by self-organizing feature map - method and reconfigurable architecture, R. Natowicz et al
design of the Masix distributed operating system on top of the Mach Microkernal, R. Card et al. (Part contents).