IFIP WG2.5 Working Conference Quality of Numerical Software 1996: Oxford, UK

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/qns/1996,
  editor    = {Ronald F. Boisvert},
  title     = {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},
  booktitle = {Quality of Numerical Software},
  publisher = {Chapman {\&} Hall},
  series    = {IFIP Conference Proceedings},
  volume    = {76},
  year      = {1997},
  isbn      = {0-412-80530-8},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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
• Mladen A. Vouk, Munindar P. Singh: Quality of service and scientific workflows. 77-89
• 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
• Ian Gladwell, Malgorzata A. Napierala: Efficiency of global adaptive quadrature. 326-329
• 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