International Conference on Applied Computer Algebra

首届应用计算机代数（ACA）国际会议于2003年7月28日至31日在北卡罗来纳州罗利举行。在过去的几年里，计算机代数（CA）在工程、科学和教育领域的应用有了显著的增长。本次会议的目标是通过强调计算机代数的应用和计算机代数研究人员与其他学科的严肃用户之间的跨学科互动的国际会议来促进这一重要进展。ACA会议很好地补充了已经建立的会议，例如ISSAC，它本质上是计算机代数研究人员在基础理论（而不是应用和跨学科互动）上的跨学科论坛。会议由12个小型研讨会（会议）组成，由杰出的研究人员组织，重点关注他们自己的应用领域，包括教育、工程、物理科学、经济学和生命/医学科学。本次会议将对两个社区产生广泛的影响：庞大的用户社区和研究社区。用户社区将能够了解已被证明适用的最新理论和算法。研究界将能够从其他学科了解严肃用户面临的重要问题/挑战，激发新的理论研究和算法设计。

This the first International Conference Applied Computer Algebra (ACA), held in Raleigh North Carolina, July 28-31, 2003. In the past several years there has been a dramatic increase in the applications of computer algebra (CA) in engineering, science and education. The goal of this conference is to facilitate this important progress through an international meeting that emphasizes applications of computer algebra and interdisciplinary interaction between computer algebra researchers and serious users from other disciplines. The ACA conference complements nicely the already well-established conferences, such as ISSAC, which are essentially the intradisciplinary forum for computer algebra researchers on fundamental theories (rather than applications and inter-disciplinary interaction). The conference is organized as a collection of twelve mini workshops (sessions) organized by prominent researchers and focused on their own application areas including education, engineering, physical sciences, economics and life/medical sciences. This conference will have the broad impact on two communities: the huge user community and the research community. The user community will be able to learn about the state of the art theories and algorithms that are proven to be applicable. The research community will be able to learn about important problems/challenges facing the serious users from other disciplines, inspiring fresh new theoretical research and algorithm design.