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Euro-Parisaninternationalconferencededicatedtothepromotionandadvan- ment of all aspects of parallel computing. The major themes can be divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for p- allel computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel computing both as an industrial te- nique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. This is particularly important at a time when parallel computing is undergoing strong and sustained development and experiencing real industrial take-up. The main audience for and participants in Euro-Parareseenasresearchersinacademicdepartments,governmentlabora- ries and industrial organisations. Euro-Par’s objective is to become the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specic areas. Euro-Par is also interested in applications which demonstrate the e - tiveness of the main Euro-Par themes. There is now a permanent Web site for the series http://brahms. fmi. uni-passau. de/cl/europar where the history of the conference is described. Euro-Par is now sponsored by the Association of Computer Machinery and the International Federation of Information Processing. Euro-Par’99 The format of Euro-Par’99follows that of the past four conferences and consists of a number of topics eachindividually monitored by a committee of four. There were originally 23 topics for this year’s conference. The call for papers attracted 343 submissions of which 188 were accepted. Of the papers accepted, 4 were judged as distinguished, 111 as regular and 73 as short papers.

5th International Euro-Par Conference Toulouse, France, August 31–September 3, 1999 Proceedings

Euro-Par’ 99 Parallel Processing

"This thesis describes the enchanted, sylvan world of a peasant community from La Macarena, a municipality located in the Colombian Northwest Amazonia. These peasants experience the forest as an animated place, inhabited by different spiritual, animal, and non-human beings with whom they have to deal in order to access some indispensable resources. In this manner, more than a natural place, the forest stands as an intricate network where humans, animals, plants, and spirits have to constantly interact. The value of these social interactions shapes the ways in which peasants use forest resources, engage with particular places, and relate with their neighbours. The enchantment of the forest refers to two different things: firstly, to a set of ontological premises in which places, spirits, and animals are experienced as imbued with agency and personhood. Secondly, to the way in which unequal economic and social forces have been bind together under specific historical conditions in a place as La Macarena. The approach used for describing these sylvan agencies not only concerns the social world of people but also the part of the natural world--i.e. the forest-- with which they interact. By so doing, this ethnography deal with how colonialist imageries of landscapes, extractive economies, and political violence shape the way peasants conceive and manage the forest; but also with how some proprieties of the forest--ecology, patterns of resources distribution-- shape, constraining or amplifying, how people engage with both their natural and social worlds. Through the examination of peasant economic activities such as fur trade, logging, and hunting, the thesis suggests that the enchantment is not only the result of how society, economy, and history permeate landscapes; instead, that such enchantment is closely linked to the way in which ecology is able to shape peasant ontology." --

Enchanted Forests, Entangled Lives. Spirits, Peasant Economies, and Violence in Northwest Amazonia

Dez histórias. Quando um homem coloca sua vida nas mãos do destino, não pode culpá-lo se ficar onde está. Tudo pode acontecer durante uma transmissão de rádio. Um fim de semana de acampamento fracassa miseravelmente. Uma vida perdida, encontrada e perdida novamente. Não se deve brincar com uma pessoa de coração partido. Um parque chega na cidade e segredos são revelados. Já dizia o velho ditado, a curiosidade matou o gato. Uma mulher com raiva e uma vingança em curso. Cuidado com banco de dados, eles são perigosos. Aquele celular novo que você queria, desista, ele pode extinguir a vida na terra.

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