ylfink@water.waterloo.edu (ylfink) (05/05/88)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
- Wednesday, May 11, 1988
Professor J.C. Mason, Royal Military College of Science
(RMCS), Shrivenham, England, will speak on
``Knowledge-Based Systems in Numerical Analysis''.
TIME: 11:00 AM
ROOM: MC 5097
ABSTRACT
Knowledge-based systems have the potential for some
very useful applications in numerical analysis,
including the provision of ``front-ends'' for numerical
software packages and libraries. We discuss a variety
of the systems which are currently under development,
including NAXPERT for small numerical libraries, NEXUS
for numerical software environments, GLIMPSE for the
statistical package GLIM, and FEASA for finite element
analysis. We then focus on a new system KASTLE, which
RMCS is developing jointly with NAG Ltd. for the main
NAG library of 700 subroutines, and consider relevant
design questions.
Finally, for the benefit of numerical analysts who are
new to expert and knowledge-based systems, we describe
an elementary system, based on an inexpensive shell and
written for a micro by our colleague Dr. Anne Daman,
which selects data fitting routines from the NAG/DASL
libraries.