Challenges for Theory and Computation

Challenges for Theory and Computation

The routinely made assumptions for simulating solid materials are briefly summarized, since they need to be critically assessed when new aspects become important, such as excited states, finite temperature, time-dependence, etc. The significantly higher computer power combined with improved experimental data open new areas for interdisciplinary research, for which new ideas and concepts are nee...

Evolutionary Computation: Challenges and duties

Evolutionary Computation (EC) is now a few decades old. The impressive development of the field since its initial conception has made it one of the most vigorous research areas, specifically from an applied viewpoint. This should not hide the existence of some major gaps in our understanding on these techniques. In this essay we propose a number of challenging tasks that –according to our opini...

Challenges of Symbolic Computation

The success of the symbolic mathematical computation discipline is striking. The theoretical advances have been continuous and significant: Gröbner bases, the Risch integration algorithm, integer lattice basis reduction, hypergeometric summation algorithms, etc. From the beginning in the early 1960s, it has been the tradition of our discipline to create software that makes our ideas readily ava...

Distributed MEMS: New Challenges for Computation

12 1070-9924/97/$10.00 © 1997 IEEE IEEE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING Microelectromechanical systems, often abbreviated as MEMS, are an emerging set of technologies that make it possible to miniaturize and mass-produce large numbers of integrated sensors, actuators, and computers. By merging sensing and actuation with computation and communication, MEMS devices can be distributed througho...

Category Theory and Models for Parallel Computation