CAIN Europe: The Web server

All the partners have contributed to the setting up of CAIN Europe: The Computer Algebra Information Network (see the URL http://www.can.nl). CAIN Europe is a server on the World-Wide-Web giving the means to easily access various information related to Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. CAIN Europe is a distributed system. It means that most information is maintained at the level of the research teams and the individual users all around the world. CAIN Europe gives the means to easily find the information one looks for. These are the four most important features of the server's design:

• The information is sorted out by category.
• The system is user-driven.
• The SAC partners provide different kinds of service to CAIN Europe.
• Search engines give the means to easily find information.

Here are a few figures that should give an idea of the amount of information available via CAIN Europe:

• The News: 16 newsletters.
• Announcements: 44 job opportunities between December 1996 and September 1997, 33 conferences and workshops, of which 21 in Europe, between December 1996 and October 1997, 14 software releases and 34 new books.
• Newcomers in Computer Algebra: 18 tutorials and 14 demos.
• Teams and People: the ``Home page" of 66 research teams and the ``Personal page" of 81 individuals dealing with Symbolic and Algebraic Computation.
• Systems and Packages: information about more than 110 general purpose, special purpose and experimental software.
• ``Computer Algebra in Action'': 72 applications of Computer Algebra.
• Literature: 64 Preprints, 87 BibTex files, the proceedings of 27 conferences, Journals in Math and Computer Science from 13 publishers, 21 journals related to Symbolic and Algebraic Computation with searchable contents on the publishers' sites, a local compilation of 154 books related to Symbolic and Algebraic Computation.
• The ``Virtual Computer Algebra Library'' contains 8 tutorials and many other useful information about the 5 topics covered so far.
• European Projects in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation: information about 8 projects.