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摘要

About IMACS: IMACS is an International Association of professionals and scientists concerned with computers, computation and applied mathematics, in particular as they apply to the simulation of systems. This includes numerical analysis, mathematical modelling, approximation theory, computer hardware and software, programming languages and compilers. IMACS also concerns itself with the general philosophy of scientific computation and applied mathematics, and with their impact on society and on disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. IMACS is one of the five International Scientific Associations (with IFAC, IFORS, IFIP and IMEKO) represented in FIACC, the five international organizations in the area of computers, automation, instrumentation and the relevant branches of applied mathematics. Of the five IMACS (which changed its name from AICA in 1976) is the oldest, having been founded in 1956.