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THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Special issue: Real Numbers and Computers
Guest editors: Marc Daumas and Nathalie Revol.
IMPORTANT DATES (tentative planning):
- Deadline for submissions of manuscripts: January 5th, 2004
(full papers only; extended abstracts will be rejected)
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: April, 2004
- Deadline for reception of final papers: July, 2004
- Parution: beginning of 2005
Efficient manipulation of real numbers in computers is still a
challenge. Many interesting theoretical and algorithmic problems are
linked with that topic and belong to quite distant fields such as
computer science, number theory, numerical analysis, computer algebra
and logics. A number of TCS special issues on real numbers and
computers has previously appeared (162 (1), 210(1), 279 (1-2) and 291
(2)), as follow-up to the RNC meetings on these topics. The last
meeting was RNC5 which took place in Lyon in September 2004, cf:
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Arenaire/RNC5/
TOPICS
Scientists working on questions related to real computer arithmetic
are encouraged to present the theoretical or algorithmic aspects of
their results, even if they did not attend the RNC5 conference. Survey
and tutorial articles may be suitable if clearly identified as
such. Topics include (but are not restricted to) the following list:
- any computational number system
- implemented by a software package or in hardware,
- floating and fixed point,
- serial, on line arithmetic,
- continued fractions,
- exact computations,
- multiple precision,
- interval and stochastic arithmetics.
HOW TO SUBMIT
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas,
techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear comparison
with related work. More details may be given in an appendix. Authors
may submit additional background reference material that is not widely
available. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work
published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Prepare a PostScript or PDF version of your full 10-20 pages paper
preferably using Elsevier latex style
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/latex
The file should be uploaded to the special issue Internet site before
January 5th.
Make sure that your PostScript or PDF file can be printed on a
standard laser printer. Another possible check is to view it by
Ghostscript.
Language: English.