Applications in Parallel and Distributed Computing

Preface. Programme Committee. List of Referees. Parallel and Distributed Algorithms. Computation of 2-D wavelet transforms on the Connection Machine-2 (M. Misra, T. Nichols). An incremental neural classifer on MIMD parallel computer (A. Azcarraga, H. Paugam-Moisy, D. Puzenat). Adaptive biases and gains for backpropagation algorithm (T. Chen, M. Tagaki). On the use of a multi-threaded operating system for an efficient parallel implementation of the ML-EM algorithm for PET image reconstruction (K. Bastiaens, I. Lemahieu, P. Desmedt). 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, Y. Le Guyadec, G. Utard, B. Virot). Efficient deadlock resolution in distributed systems (S. Lee, 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, B. Szymanski, T. Caraco). Applying semi-systolic techniques to SIMD programming (T. Risset). Distributed Programming. Definition and implementation of a flexible communication primitive for distributed programming (A. Mostefaoui, M. Raynal). Execution replay with compact logs for shared-memory programs (L.J. Levrouw, K.M.R. Audenaert, J.M. Van Campenhout). Using specifications for debugging parallel programs (M. Frey, A. Weininger). An efficient implementation of sequentially consistent distributed shared memories (M. Mizuno, M. Raynal, G. Singh, M.L. Neilsen). Exploiting transaction and object semantics to increase concurrency (A. Rakotonirainy). Program and file allocation algorithm for large scale distributed systems (R. Boutaba, B. Folliot). Compiling geometric paradigms through local communications (S. Orlando, 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, J.M. Couvreur, P. Estraillier). Benchmarks specification and generation for performance estimation on MIMD machines (C. Figueira, E. Hernandez). A study in EPF and C-Linda implementations of distinct element model (S.K. Tang, R. Zurawski). Distributed Systems and Architecture. Replicated data management in mobile environments: anything new under the sun? (D. Barbara-Milla, H. Garcia-Molina). WEA, a distributed object manager based on a workspace hierarchy (D. Donsez, P. Homond, P. Faudemay). An evaluation of hardware and software data prefetching (J.L. Baer, T.F. Chen). Real time segmentation of image sequences by self-organizing feature map: method and reconfigurable architecture (R. Natowicz, M. Alves de Barros, M. Akil, F. Bosio). Design of the Masix distributed operating system on top of the Mach Microkernel (R. Card, H. Le Văn Gong, P.-G. Raverdy). Integration of widely distributed production control systems by using virtual devices (E. Chacon, R. Rivas). Routing with compact routing tables: interval labelling scheme for generalized meshes (I. Sakho, I. Mugwaneza, Y. Langue). Efficient message routing in P-network (H. Shen). Invasiveness of performance instrumentation measurements on multiprocessors (O. Naim, A.J.G. Hey). Poster Abstracts. ANDES: migrating performance metrics for parallel programs to distributed environments (A. Chirico, E. Arraiz). A flexible cellular processor for image processing applications (N.J. Leite, G. Bertrand). Strategies of weight updating for parallel back-propogation (D. Girard, H. Paugam-Moisy). Hybrid training using hyperspherical connectionist models (J.M. Ramirez). A parallel volume rendering algorithm (A.A. Hung-Leo, A. Teruel). Author Index.