The papers in this book discuss technologies relevant to expert systems in engineering and describe applications of these technologies in such areas as computer integrated manufacturing and process automation.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2005, held in Hong Kong, China in September 2005. These papers are organized in topical sections on architecture, algorithm and theory, system and software, grid computing, networking, and applied technologies.