R. H. Goodman,1,2 M. I. Weinstein,1 and P. J. Holmes2,3 1 Mathematical Sciences Research, Fundamental Mathematics Department, Bell Laboratories– Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA e-mail:[email protected] e-mail:[email protected] 2 Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 3 Departmen...

This paper sketches work-in-progress in the area of systems architecting, which we regard as a fundamental element of system-level requirements engineering. We present our ideas on systems architecting, and relate them to the field of Architecture proper (as in buildings). We present our notion of system-wide scenarios and how these can be derived from contextual analysis of information systems...

Second-order tensors are a fundamental entity in engineering, physical sciences and biomechanics. Examples are stresses and strains in solids and velocity gradients in fluid flows. The visualization of tensor fields improves the understanding and interpretation of tensor data and is therefore of paramount importance for the scientist. This paper gives an introduction to the definition and visua...

Systems of polynomial equations arise throughout mathematics, engineering, and the sciences. It is therefore a fundamental problem both in mathematics and in application areas to find the solution sets of polynomial systems. The focus of this paper is to compare two fundamentally different approaches to computing and representing the solutions of polynomial systems: numerical homotopy continuat...

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1 Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 810, Japan 2 Department of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima 731-31, Japan 3 Research Institute of Fundamental Information Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan 4 Department of Control Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka 820, Japan 5 Department of Arti cial Intelligence, Kyushu Inst...