SCILAB Research, Development and Applications

Author: Shi Li, Long-Hua Ma, Gomez (Eds)
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: With the development of computer and its popularization, scientific computation has evolved into one of the three magic weapons of scientific research with its own right. In addition, industries 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 in expanding 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 a 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....