Scientific software systems: based on the proceedings of the international symposium on scientific software and systems, held at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, July 1988

One Software Developments Introduction.- Scientific software in Ada.- Linear algebra support modules for approximation and other software.- Packages for solving almost block diagonal linear systems arising in spline collocation at Gaussian points with monomial basis functions.- Developments in the NAG library software for parabolic equations.- Recent developments in mathematical software at IMSL.- Two Processing Techniques: parallel processing, neural networks, and computer arithmetic Introduction.- Scientific library software for highly parallel computers.- Fortran 8x features and the exploitation of parallelism.- An introduction to neural networks.- Algorithms for the elementary functions in level-index arithmetic.- Three Symbolic and Exact Computation Introduction.- Symbolic algebra systems in teaching and research.- Recent developments in automatic differentiation.- An efficient algorithm for the generation of homogeneous harmonic polynomials.- Four Software Enhancements: computer graphics and expert systems Introduction.- Computer graphics for scientific computing.- What do we mean by expert systems?.- Expert systems for numerical software.- Numerical problem-solving environments - current and future trends.- An advisory expert system for curve and surface fitting.