I Scientific Computation -- 1 Parallelization Strategies for Matrix Assembly in Finite Element Methods -- 2 A Parallelisable Algorithm for Partitioning Unstructured Meshes -- 3 Plump: Parallel Library for Unstructured Mesh Problems -- 4 Parallelizing Vision Computations on CM-5: Algorithms and Experiences -- II Discrete Optimization -- 5 Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Unstructured Problems -- 6 A Parallel Grasp Implementation for the Quadratic Assignment Problem -- 7 Concurrent Data Structures for Tree Search Algorithms -- 8 A Distributed Implementation of Asynchronous Parallel Branch and Bound -- 9 Experiments with a Parallel Synchronized Branch and Bound Algorithm -- 10 Parallel Local Search and Job Shop Scheduling -- 11 A Randomized Parallel Search Strategy -- 12 A Parallel Approximation Schema for Symmetric Linear Assignment Problem -- III Tools for Automatic Parallelization -- 13 Applications of Graph Scheduling Techniques in Parallelizing Irregular Scientific Computation -- 14 Atredia: A Mapping Environment for Dynamic Tree-Structured Problems -- 15 Regularising Transformations for Integral Dependencies -- 16 Some Strategies for Load Balancing.