IFIP WG2.5 Working Conference Quality of Numerical Software 1996: Oxford, UK
Ronald F. Boisvert (Ed.): Quality of Numerical Software - Assessment and Enhancement, Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.5 Working Conference on the Quality of Numerical Software, Assessment and Enhancement, Oxford, UK, 8-12 July 1996. Chapman & Hall 1997 IFIP Conference Proceedings ISBN 0-412-80530-8
The Problem of Numerical Software Quality
- James C. T. Pool: Is numerical software relevant? Is it too late to worry about quality? 3-11
- Les Hatton: The T-experiments: errors in scientific software. 12-31
- W. Morven Gentleman: If software quality is a perception, how do we measure it? 32-43
- Cherri M. Pancake: Improving quality through user-centered design. 44-60
- John C. Munson: A functional approach to software reliability modeling. 61-76
- Leon J. Osterweil: Improving the quality of software quality determination processes. 90-105
Testing and Evaluation Methodology
- Nicholas J. Higham: Testing linear algebra software. 109-124
- Ronald F. Boisvert, Roldan Pozo, Karin A. Remington, Richard F. Barrett, Jack Dongarra: Matrix Market: a web resource for test matrix collections. 125-137
- Bernard Butler, Maurice Cox, Alistair Forbes, Simon Hannaby, Peter Harris: A methodology for testing classes of approximation and optimisation. 138-151
- J. N. Lyness: Evaluation of minimization software based on performance profile techniques. 152-154
- W. Van Snyder: Testing functions of one and two arguments. 155-166
- Daniel W. Lozier: A proposed software test service for special functions. 167-178
- Wayne H. Enright, H. Hayashi: The evaluation of numerical software for delay differential equations. 179-193
The Effect of New Environments on Numerical Software Quality
- Jeremy Du Croz: Designing and building a new numerical library in Fortran 90. 197-209
- J. K. Reid: Two approaches to exeption handling in Fortran. 210-223
- Lawrence F. Shampine, M. W. Reichelt: Developing ODE software in new computing environments. 224-235
- Jack Dongarra, Sven Hammarling, Antoine Petitet: Case studies on the development of ScaLAPACK and the NAG Numerical PVM Library. 236-248
- William Gropp: Why we couldn't use numerical libraries for PETSc. 249-254
- Shun Doi, Hidehiro Fujio, Kouta Sugihara: Automatic parallel program generation for finite element analysis. 255-266
- William M. Coughran Jr.: Network-based scientific computation via Inferno. 267-269
- Eric Grosse: Real Inferno. 270-279
- Ulrich W. Kulisch: The XSC tools for extended scientific computing. 280-284
Case Studies
- Christian H. Bischof: Automatic differentiation and numerical software design. 287-299
- Françoise Chaitin-Chatelin: Is nonnormality a serious computational difficulty in practice? 300-314
- Desmond J. Higham: Reliability of local error control algorithms for initial value ordinary differential equations. 315-325
- Mo Mu: Software testing and evaluation in large-scale scientific applications. 330-332
- Yukio Umetani: The visual diagnosis on numerical calculation of PDE problems and experiments. 333-344
- S. L. Lee, W. E. Schiesser: Some fundamental limitations of mathematical software revealed by the calculation of spacetime curvature. 345-348
- M. Nakagawa: Development of efficient general purpose Monte Carlo codes used in nuclear engineering. 349-360
- Yu. I. Shokin: New resource-sparing grid methods for solving the problems of mathematical physics. 361-372
The Conference
- The Quality of Numerical Software: Assessment and Enhancement. 375-380
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