ISSAC 2003
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 3-6, 2003
http://www.drexel.edu/issac2003/

This year ISSAC organizes sessions to exhibit software packages produced by academic developers. These sessions are intended to promote software development activities in the areas of symbolic mathematical computation.

Important Dates

• Deadline for Submissions: April 28, 2003
• Notification of acceptance will shortly follow submission.

The software abstract will be published in the SIGSAM Bulletin.

To encourage submissions of good quality, two best demonstration prizes will be awarded. Demonstrations will be judged by the program committee and the attendees independently, both based on content and presentation.

Conference Topics

Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to:

• Algorithmic mathematics. Algebraic, symbolic and symbolic-numeric algorithms. Simplification, function manipulation, equations, summation, integration, ODE/PDE, linear algebra, number theory, group and geometric computing.
• Computer Science. Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic computation. Systems, problem solving environments, user interfaces, software, libraries, parallel/distributed computing and programming languages for symbolic computation, concrete analysis, benchmarking, theoretical and practical complexity of computer algebra algorithms, automatic differentiation, code generation, mathematical data structures and exchange protocols.
• Applications. Problem treatments using algebraic, symbolic or symbolic-numeric computation in an essential or a novel way. Engineering, economics and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science, logic, mathematics, statistics, education.

Instructions

A software exhibition consists of an illustration of a piece of software by using a poster display and/or a laptop computer display.

Software exhibitors are invited to submit:

• A title of their software exhibition;
• An abstract of about half a page describing the software, the purpose and containing a very short bibliography;
• At most two pages which detail the abstract;

Documents must be in English. Plain TeX or LaTeX is preferred, but plain text is also acceptable. Documents should be submitted via electronic mail to aszanto@ncsu.edu.

Recommendations

The aims of your exhibition is to convince the attendees to use your software. In particular you should make clear the following aspects:

• What your software does,
• Its power and limitations,
• Any possible advantages or drawbacks over similar packages.

Exhibitors are encouraged to read the article How to Prepare a Poster.

Technical details

The software exhibition sessions will take place in the same hall as the poster sessions. You will have access to a poster stand and possibly to a table and a chair. You will have to provide your own laptop computer if needed. Please inform the Exhibitions Chair about the needs of your exhibitions. Also, please feel free to contact the exhibitions chair with any questions at: aszanto@ncsu.edu.