Call for Software Presentations
                                 ISSAC 2008
        International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
                    RISC, Hagenberg, Austria, July 20-23, 2008

                  http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2008/

ISSAC, the  International Symposium on Symbolic and  Algebraic  Computation,
is the premier  annual  gathering of  the Symbolic  Mathematical Computation
community  to  present  and  discuss  new developments and original research
results in symbolic and algebraic computation.

Software  developers  are  invited  to  present  new  software  for  solving
problems  in symbolic and algebraic computation  at  ISSAC 2008.  Presenters
will be given 15 minutes to demonstrate  their software to participants in a
special session  for  software presentations.  There  will  be  5 additional
minutes between presentations for setup.

Please submit an extended abstract in PDF format describing the software and
what you will present to Michael Monagan by e-mail  at mmonagan@cecm.sfu.ca.
Please include in the subject heading ISSAC08 Software Presentation.  Please
include a valid URL or contact address for  obtaining the  software packages
and documentation.

Abstracts  will  be  evaluated   based  on  content,  novelty,  originality,
importance  and  potential  value of  the software to the community.  Please
identify  in your  extended abstract  what is new  that  will be  presented.
If you are also presenting a paper at ISSAC 2008  related  to your software,
please   identify,  in  your  e-mail,   the   differences  between  the  two
presentations.  You  may  also  present  your  software  as  a  poster  (see
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2008/ the call for posters).

Abstracts of  accepted  software presentations  will  be  distributed at the
symposium  and  also  printed  in  an  upcoming  issue  of  the  ACM  SIGSAM
Communications in Computer Algebra.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline to submit extended abstract (.pdf): May 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2008
Deadline to submit (.tex) updated abstracts: June 15, 2008

CONFERENCE TOPICS

They include, but are not limited to:

Algorithmic  Mathematics:    Algebraic,   symbolic   and    symbolic-numeric
algorithms.  Simplification,  function manipulation, summation, integration,
polynomial / differential / difference  equations,  linear  algebra,  number
theory, group and invariant theory, geometric computing.

Computer  Science:  Theoretical   and   practical   problems   in   symbolic
computation.  Systems,  problem  solving  environments,   user   interfaces,
software,   libraries, parallel / distributed   computing  and   programming
languages,  concrete  analysis, benchmarking,  theoretical   and   practical
complexity, automatic differentiation, code  generation,  mathematical  data
structures and exchange protocols.

Applications:  Problem treatments using  algebraic,  symbolic  or  symbolic-
numeric computation in an essential or a novel way.  Engineering,  economics
and finance, physical  and  biological  sciences,  computer science,  logic,
mathematics and education.

SOFTWARE PRESENTATIONS CHAIR

Michael Monagan, Simon Fraser University, Canada: mmonagan@cecm.sfu.ca