CALL FOR PAPERS:    Session "NON-STANDARD APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER ALGEBRA"
Session chair:      Eugenio Roanes-Lozano (eroanes@eucmos.sim.ucm.es)

Conference:         IMACS Applied Computer Algebra ACA '97 Conference
Dates:              July, 24-26 1997
Place:              Aston Wailea Resort, Maui, Hawaii, USA
Session:            Non-Standard Applications of Computer Algebra
Gen. Chair:         Michael Wester   (wester@math.unm.edu)
Program chairs:     Jacques Calmet   (calmet@ira.uka.de)
                    Vladimir Gerdt   (gerdt@jinr.dubna.su)
Local arrangements: Stanly Steinberg (stanly@math.unm.edu)
                    Nicolas Robidoux

Some notes about the conference:
  This is the 3rd IMACS Applied Computer Algebra Conference. Previous ones
were held at New Mexico University (chair: Stanly Steinberg) and RISC-Linz
(chairs: Bruno Buchberger and Stanly Steinberg).

For more information about the Conference, see:
   http://math.unm.edu/ACA/1997.html
(observe that the conference takes place at the same place and immediately
after PASCO'97 and ISSAC'97).

ABOUT THE SESSION "Non-Standard Applications of CA":
  There are several sessions in these conferences -individuals are invited
to organize special sessions-. This particular one is focused to applications
of CA other than the classic ones or that use a new approach to treat a
well known problem. Emphasis is put on the novelty.
  This session was organized for the first time in 1996. As an orientation,
the papers in that 1996 session treated the following topics:
   Artificial Intelligence and CA (J. Calmet)
   Differential Equations (S. Steinberg et al.)
   Electrical Networks (A. Montes)
   Thermodynamics and CA I & II (R. Taylor)
   CA and Statistics (S. Nakagawa et al.)
   Railway Interlockings (E. Roanes & L. Laita)
   Regular Expressions (A. Trejo & G. Fernandez)
These papers together with some others regarding:
   CA and Field Theories (J. Calmet & W.M. Seiler)
   CA and Education: Calculations involving physical units with a CAS (J.Boehm)
                     Introducing real numbers and CASs (T. Recio & M.J. Gzlez.)
   Molecular Dynamics (D. Isbister et al.)
   Straight-Line Programs (J. Llovet et al.)
   CA and Multi-Valued Logics (E. Roanes & L. Laita)
have been collected to produce a special issue of MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
IN SIMULATION (the main IMACS Journal, published by Elsevier, under the
North-Holland imprint), to appear soon (editors: E. Roanes, S. Steinberg,
H. Hong).
  As can be seen above, there is no restriction in the topics treated, that
already cover a wide area. Some papers give an general overview of a certain
topic while others treat a very specific problem. Some treat research topics
while other are more related to educational issues. Observe that the later
have not been restricted to university education.
  The only precondition is that the paper should be "self-contained" (in the
sense that a mathematician that is used to CA's techniques must be able to
follow it). Therefore in papers from other sciences, engineering or industry,
an explanatory introduction together with the required definitions (even if
elementary in its field) should be included.
  There is no condition or even recommendation about the CAS or piece of CAS
to use (or to develop!). Anyway it is recommended to avoid the inclusion of
detailed long (tedious) and complicated code. In such case the inclusion of
commented CAS-independent algorithms and/or easy-to-follow "worksheets" is
encouraged. When including code try to comment it in a way such that the idea
in the background can be followed by anyone not knowing the particular CA
language used.

PROPOSALS for talks to be included at this session are welcome.

Best wishes,
Eugenio


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