MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION

Editors-in-Chief
C. Christara
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
L. Gardini
University of Urbino, School of Economics, I-61029, Urbino, Italy
R.M. Spitaleri
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo ‘Mauro Picone’ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via dei Taurini 19,
00185 Roma, Italy
Editors Emeriti
R. Beauwens
Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F.D. Roosevelt, CP 165/84, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
R. Vichnevetsky
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
Senior Editors
(Collective Intelligence; Dynamic Systems; (Dynamical Systems) (Symbolic Computation)
Neural Networks) E. Mosekilde S. Steinberg
J. Cao Department of Physics, Technical University University of New Mexico
Southeast University Nanjing, China of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
(Computational Finance and Risk Analysis) (Monte Carlo Methods)
M. McAleer K.K. Sabelfeld (Nonlinear Systems and Wave Propagation)
Econometric Institute, Institute of Computational Mathematics and T. Taha
Erasmus School of Economics Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk Russian University of Georgia
Erasmus University Rotterdam Academy of Sciences, Russia Department of Computer Science
The Netherlands Athens, GA 30602-7404, USA

Editors
R. Abgrall C.-M. Fan S. Makhanov B. Robyns
Universität Zürich, Switzerland National Taiwan Ocean University SIIT, Thailand Ecole des Hautes Etudes
V.N. Alexandrov Keelung, Taiwan D. Mansutti Industrielles, France
Hartree Centre, Warrington, R. Garrappa Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche C. Rohde
United Kingdom Università degli Studi di Bari (CNR), Rome, Italy University of Stuttgart, Institute of Applied
R. Blasco-Gimenez Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy G. Manzini Analysis and Numerical Simulation,
Instituto de Automática e Informática Indus- J.M. Guerrero Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Germany
trial Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Va- Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Tecnologie Informatiche, R. Serban
lencia, Spain Z. Guo Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Xulu Entertainment Milpitas
G. Bocharov State Key Laboratory of Coal Pavia, Italy CA, USA
Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathemat- Combustion, Huazhong University M. Mascagni B. Simeon
ics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, of Science and Technology, Florida State University Technische Universität München
Moscow, Russia Wuhan, P.R. China Tallahassee, FL, USA München, Germany
M. Caporin J. Hron K. Meerbergen
Mathematical Institute, K.U. Leuven, Belgium I. Sushko
Università degli Studi di Padova
Charles University Praha, Czech Republic Dept. of Differential Equations and
Padova, Italy E. Monmasson Oscillation Theory, Institute of Mathematics,
F. Chan A. Jakeman Cergy-Pontoise University, France
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Curtin University of Technology FSES, Australian National University, T. Müller-Gronbach Kiev, Ukraine
Perth, Western Australia Canberra, Australia University of Passau, Passau, Germany
L.O. Jay A. Tosin
P.M. Congedo M. Perego
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Politecnico di Torino. Torino, Italy
INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Sandia National Laboratories
Talence, France P.L. Kunsch Albuquerque, NM, United States F. Tramontana
E. Cuevas Department of Mathematics F. Pinna Catholic University of the Sacred Heart,
Departamento de Electrónica, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Von Karman Institute for Fluid Milano, Italy
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico Belgium Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode,
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J.M. da Costa Sousa C. Lécot Belgium Consiglio Nazionale delle
IDMEC, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Université de Savoie, France F. Pitolli Ricerche (CNR), Padova, Italy
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal A. Lejay Università di Roma, Sapienza, Italy
IECN, INRIA, Campus scientifique E.Venturino
M.Á. Domínguez Toribio P. Quintela Estévez
Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France Department of Mathematics,
Department of Fundamentals University of Santiago de Compostela
University of Turin, Italy
of Economic Analysis II G. Leobacher Rectorado, La Coruña, Spain
(Quantitative Economics) KFU Graz, Institute of Mathematics M. Razzaghi C. Zhang
Madrid, Spain and Scientific Computing Graz, Austria Mississippi State University, USA School of Mathematics and Statistics
K. Lipnikov Huazhong University of Science
P. Duda E. Roanes-Lozano
Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Technology, Wuhan,
Czestochowa Technical University Univ. Complutense de Madrid
New Mexico, United States Hubei, China
Czestochowa, Poland Madrid, Spain

Aims: The aim of the Journal is to provide an international forum for the dissemination of up-to-date information in the fields of applied mathematics
and computers and to the growing field of scientific computation in general, in particular (but not exclusively) how they apply to the simulation of
systems. Published material ranges from short, concise research papers to more general tutorial articles.
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, published monthly, is the official organ of IMACS, the International Association for
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (formerly AICA). This Association, founded in 1955 and legally incorporated in 1956 is a member of FIACC
(the Five International Associations Coordinating Committee), together with IFIP, IFAC, IFORS and IMEKO.
Topics covered by the journal include mathematical tools in
- the foundations of systems modelling,
- numerical analysis and the development of algorithms for simulation.
They also include considerations about computer hardware for simulation and about special software and compilers.
The journal also publishes articles concerned with specific applications of modelling and simulation in science and engineering, with relevant applied
mathematics, the general philosophy of systems simulation, and their impact on disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
The journal includes a Book Review section and a “News of IMACS” section that contains a Calendar of future Conferences/Events and other
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