科学计算自由软件SCILAB研究、开发与应用

With the development of computer and its popularization, scientific computation has evolved into of

the three magic weapons of scientific research with its own right. In addition, industrials in

various domains have considered scientific computation as a key technology. In the light of this

ongoing development, it is expected that scientific computation software will play an important

role for enlarging wide applications. Scilab, as a free open-source software package for scientific

computation, provides a powerful and interactive environment with extensive mathematical

capabilities, sophisticated graphics, and high-level programming language for rapid prototyping.

Due to its distinguished features of "open source", Scilab has been widely used by more and more

engineers and scientists in both academia and industries.

As a matter of fact, since it was developed in 1990s by INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en

Informatique et en Automatique) and ENPC (Ecole Nationa1e des Ponts et Chaussees), France, Sci1ab

has been distributed freely along with the source code via the Internet and used in educational and

industrial environments around the world. Meanwhile, Scilab is also being disseminated in all over

the world by various introductory documentations in several languages such as French, English,

Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and so on.

Since 2002, an annual event of software development contest based on Sci1ab platform and

environment has been carrying on in China, which is no doubt to promote and advance a worthy cause

for the development of open source software engineering, especially for the research, development

and applications of Sci1ab.

In this book, 19 papers are included, which are selected from papers submitted to 2007

International Workshop on Open Source Software Scilab and its Engineering Application (OSSS-EA'07).

We are grateful to all contributors for making the workshop a success. We would like to express our

sincerely thanks to Nanhai Neusoft Institute of Information, Hongkong Polytech University, Ecole

Centrale de Pekin, France Telecom, R&D Beijing; Thomson Broadhand R&D Beijing; Bull Information

Systems Beijing for their support. We also thank Miss Wang Jing for her elaborately composing and

design in the publication of this book.