Held under house arrest by the young knight Toreese, Yota formulates a plan to escape. This will be a battle of seduction and willpower! Will the poker-faced beauty let down her mask or will he have to resort to desperate measures?

A women's world of swords and sorcery just summoned their only human man--a bewildered student from Earth! Tada Youta, a seemingly normal young man with a background in martial arts, has his life upended when a terrifying creature drags him into another world. He's shocked to find himself in a land with castles and dragons and colored moons in the sky, where the only humans who roam are women! Not only is Youta the first man in this world for centuries, but his touch can activate a powerful desire within the women around him. Guided into this strange new land by a beautiful paladin, Youta is about to embark on his ultimate fantasy adventure! Creator Lynn Okamoto, a veteran of the industry, is also known for the manga and anime series Brynhildr in the Darkness and Elfen Lied.

THE WITCHES MUST FEAST! Yota, determined to protect the girls, prepares to face off once again against the villainous witch Galia. Meanwhile, Galia gives her own Guardian a violent ultimatum, threatening to destroy her unless she complies. The clock is ticking as Yota hurries to the city library to research any weakness he can find on Galia, but as he retreats, the witches prepare for a night of debauched cannibalistic slaughter!

Traumatized by his memories of Kanejo from the real world, Yota can't face him. He flees with Rumi even as he's trying to capture Leigh-Mary's uncertain heart. The beautiful, stoic knight is torn between her loyalty to her Empress and her doubts. Can Yota get her on their side before Kanejo strikes?

Trapped in the desert town of Sandrio, Yota is held hostage by its sinister Guardians and used as a breeding stud. Help is on the way as Rumi and her party journey toward him through the sandswept wastes. But as Rumi draws near, a menacing arrival may cut her reunion with Yota short when the evil witch Galia reveals herself at last! She's got sinister plans, and if she can't kill the Guardians to get what she wants, she'll humiliate and degrade them!

With the help of the people of Arlslayer, Piano is saved from execution. But Yota faces death yet again, because in this fantasy world, he can no longer move! Taking advantage of the opportunity, the high-ranking Guardian Mimi reveals her true nature and starts slaughtering the townspeople. What will happen to this world after it loses its only man?

Yota, unconscious in the real world, is about to have his life support cut off. If he dies in his original world, he'll never be able to come back! Unaware of his impending "death," he continues his journey to recover the memory of his childhood friend, Nishina...who watches his every move, her pent-up feelings leaking free.

When Yota and the girls retreat from the sinister witch Galia, the last thing they expect to encounter in the underground ruins is a childhood friend. But wait, isn't the jealous god supposed to reside down there...? Meanwhile, Galia descends on Meese Town, hungry for sacrifices and sowing disaster. Misaki takes the new Guardians to confront the witch, but how can they hold out against a power as ancient and sadistic as hers?

This volume contains the proceedings from the workshops held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2000, on 1-5 May 2000 in Cancun, Mexico. The workshopsprovidea forum for bringing together researchers,practiti- ers, and designers from various backgrounds to discuss the state of the art in parallelism.Theyfocusondi erentaspectsofparallelism,fromruntimesystems to formal methods, from optics to irregular problems, from biology to networks of personal computers, from embedded systems to programming environments; the following workshops are represented in this volume: { Workshop on Personal Computer Based Networks of Workstations { Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models { Workshop on Par. and Dist. Comp. in Image, Video, and Multimedia { Workshop on High-Level Parallel Prog. Models and Supportive Env. { Workshop on High Performance Data Mining { Workshop on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel { Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing { WorkshoponBiologicallyInspiredSolutionsto ParallelProcessingProblems { Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems { Workshop on Embedded HPC Systems and Applications { Recon gurable Architectures Workshop { Workshop on Formal Methods for Parallel Programming { Workshop on Optics and Computer Science { Workshop on Run-Time Systems for Parallel Programming { Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems All papers published in the workshops proceedings were selected by the p- gram committee on the basis of referee reports. Each paper was reviewed by independent referees who judged the papers for originality, quality, and cons- tency with the themes of the workshops.