Computation at the Frontiers of Science, Preface for ICCS 2013
Vassil Alexandrov, Michael Lees, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Jack J. Dongarra, Peter M. A. Sloot · Procedia Computer Science · 2013
The International Conference on Computational Science is an annual conference that brings together researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various application areas who are pioneering computational methods in sciences such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, as well as in arts and humanitarian fields, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research.Since its inception in 2001, ICCS has attracted increasingly higher quality and numbers of attendees and papers and this year is not an exception.This year we expect over 350 participants.The proceedings series have become a major intellectual resource for computational science researchers and serve to both define and advance the state of the art of the field.ICCS 2013 in Barcelona will be the thirteenth in this series of highly successful conferences.For the previous twelve meetings see: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2013/previous-iccs.htmlThe theme for ICCS 2013 is "Computation at the Frontiers of Science", to mark the ever-increasing importance of and progress in computational science theory and practice at the frontiers of science.The conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in computational methods for modelling complex systems in diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods.ICCS2013 will also feature the important advances in computational science towards exascale computing.ICCS includes work focusing on the application of these methods in diverse areas including, Computational Biology, Computational Finance, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences and more.