This volume contains the proceedings of the twelfth Ada-Europe conference, held in France in 1993. The French name "Ada sans fronti res" (the only French words in the book) symbolizes the unlimitedness and novelty of Ada, as well as Europe-wide interest. Many papers relate to Ada-9X, the new standard that the Ada coimmunity is close to achieving after worldwide consultation and debate about requirements, specification, anddetailed definition. Their focus is on management, real-time, and compiler validation. Part of the conference was on object orientation, together with various issues relating to the general structure of the language, including exceptions to a certain use of genericity and heterogeneous data, efficiency, formal requirements and CASEs, and comparison with a competitor language. A third part relates to real-time, past with performance measurement, present with certification andapplications, and future with the ExTRA project and 9X.

Marking the occasion of Didier Vermeiren's eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this book illuminates the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion that the artist explores in his work Published to mark the occasion of Didier Vermeiren's (b. 1951) eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, Double Exposition takes its name from a photograph by Vermeiren that refers to its own double exposure ("exposition" in French, which also translates as "exhibition"). The title thus evokes the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling, and inversion that Vermeiren explores in his work. Conceived by the artist and containing a rich array of his striking photographs, this book also features an in-depth analysis of Vermeiren's most recent sculptures written by long-term commentator on his practice, Michel Gauthier; an essay on the central role of photography in his studio practice by Susana Gallego-Cuesta; and a look at the shifts and continuities in his oeuvre over the past four decades by the exhibition's curator, Zoe Gray. Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Dramatic and thrilling or hilarious and compassionate, 'The Edge of the Volcano' offers candid accounts of life, even where it hurts, and truthful reports, even if politically incorrect. Some of the journeys are factual in their last vivid details, some are possible, others are invented. Never mind: they all have the same passion for life, reflected through adventures, misadventures, landscapes and emotions.

Dans sa troisieme serie de nouvelles, William Peskett, qui est base en Thailande, nous presente un assassin qui se voit taille dans la pierre, un ecrivain que son epouse defunte rejoint en remontant le temps, une communaute de robots qui attend leur sauveteur, un homme amoureux d'une part de lui-meme, une vieille dame entement enlisee dans sa demence senile et une bande de singes blagueurs. Humour et nostalgie, suspense et la beatitude, vous trouverez tout cela dans cette serie, parfois dans la meme histoire. La plupart se passent en Thailande et jettent un regard penetrant dans la mosaique humaine de ce pays fascinant. D'autres auraient pu se passer n'importe ou. Toutes ont en commun l'originalite des peripeties, la qualite de l'ecriture et le caractere des personnages qui tous ont un message a partager.