This volume presents the proceedings of the First Canada-France Conference on Parallel Computing; despite its name, this conference was open to full international contribution and participation, as shown by the list of contributing authors.
This volume consists of in total 22 full papers, either invited or accepted and revised after a thorough reviewing process. All together the papers provide a highly competent perspective on research in parallel algorithms and complexity, interconnection networks and distributed computing, algorithms for unstructured problems, and structured communications from the point of view of parallel and distributed computing.

This volume presents the proceedings of the joint meeting CONPAR 92 - VAPP V, held in Lyon, France, September 1992. The international Conferences on Parallel Processing (CONPAR) and the meetings on Vector and Parallel Processors in computational science (VAPP) have been held jointly since CONPAR 90 - VAPP IV, held in Zurich. The aim of the meeting presented in this volume is to review hardware and architecture developmentstogether with languages and software tools for supporting parallel processing and to highlight advances in models, algorithms, andapplications software on vector and parallel architectures. The papers in the volume are organized into sections on networks, software tools, distributed algorithms, dedicated architectures, numerical applications, systolic algorithms, parallel linear algebra, architectures, shared virtual memory, load balancing, data parallelism, parallel algorithms, image processing, compiling and scheduling, simulation and performance analysis, parallel artificialintelligence, dataflow architectures, parallel programming, and poster presentations.

This volume contains most of the talks presented at the Journ~es de la Soci~t~ Math~ma~ique de France entitled "Rhythms in Biology and other fields of application -Determi- nistic and Stochastic Approaches" held in Luminy from the 14th th to the 18 of September 1981. The aim of our meeting was to bring together scien- tists from different disciplines to discuss a common topic and to stimulate exchanges between participants. We hope that this goal was reached. This volume is divided into four chapters. In each one the papers are arranged in alphabetical order by first author. Chapters one and two contain papers devoted to descrip- tion or modelling of rhythmic biolog.ical phenomena. Chapters three and four deal with models for the study of rhythms invol- ving the use of deterministic or stochastic tools capable of fruitful transfer to Biology. We are pleased that these Proceedings appear in a series which constitutes an interface between Biologists and Mathema- ticians. We are indebted to all who provided us with their help, particularly the Centre International de Rencontres Math~matiques (C.I.R.M.) at Luminy, the Soci~t~ Mathematique de France (S.M.F.) , the Delegation aux Relations Universitaires Internationales (D.R.U.I.) and the Laboratoire d'Informatique et de Math~matiques Appliquees de Grenoble (I.M.A.G.). Special thanks are due to Mrs. A. Litman for her dedi- cation and her efficiency throughout the organization of this meeting. G~enobie, Vecembe~ 1982.