The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across diverse academic fields but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign.

This book outlines a set of issues that are critical to all of parallel architecture--communication latency, communication bandwidth, and coordination of cooperative work (across modern designs). It describes the set of techniques available in hardware and in software to address each issues and explore how the various techniques interact.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Computing. The papers are organized into topical sections covering support tools and environments, performance prediction and evaluation, scheduling and load balancing, compilers for high performance, parallel and distributed databases, grid and cluster computing, peer-to-peer computing, distributed systems and algorithms, and more.

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Introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour.

Advances in microelectronic technology have made massively parallel computing a reality and triggered an outburst of research activity in parallel processing architectures and algorithms. Distributed memory multiprocessors - parallel computers that consist of microprocessors connected in a regular topology - are increasingly being used to solve large problems in many application areas. In order to use these computers for a specific application, existing algorithms need to be restructured for the architecture and new algorithms developed. The performance of a computation on a distributed memory multiprocessor is affected by the node and communication architecture, the interconnection network topology, the I/O subsystem, and the parallel algorithm and communication protocols. Each of these parametersis a complex problem, and solutions require an understanding of the interactions among them. This book is based on the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Bilkent University, Turkey, in July 1991. The book is organized in five parts: Parallel computing structures and communication, Parallel numerical algorithms, Parallel programming, Fault tolerance, and Applications and algorithms.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis, held at the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. It is representative of the traditional topics of the workshop, from theoretical models for parallel image analysis to real life applications implemented on parallel multicomputers. Contents: Nonclosure Properties of Two-Dimensional One-Marker Automata (A Ito et al.)Parallel Distributed Detection of an Invariant Feature Associated with Self-Similar Patterns (K Kamejima)Parallel Tools for Colored Image Processing (V Lozano et al.)Asynchronous Relaxation of Morphological Operators: A Joint Algorithm-Architecture Perspective (F Robin et al.)Fast Local and Global Illuminations Through a Simid Z-Buffer (C Renaud)A Load Balanced Parallel Ground Visualization Tool (S Contassot-Vivier)Modeling 3D Deformable Object with the Active Pyramid (P-J Reissman & I E Magnin)Complexity Analysis of a Parallel Implementation of the Marching-Cubes Algorithm (S Miguet & J-M Nicod) Readership: Computer scientists and industrialists. Keywords:Parallel Computing;Image Analysis;Image Processing;Pattern Recognition;Computer Graphics;Cellular Automata;Load Balancing;Parallel Architectures;Complexity Analysis;Medical Imaging