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Software-house, Honolulu, Hawaii), SMP
(S.
Wolfram) and SCRATCH-
PAD I and
I1
(R. D. Jenks and D. Yun, IBM Watson Laboratories).
A general introduction to applications
of
computer algebra meth-
ods in MACSYMA is given by Rand (1984). Schwarz (1987a) has
undertaken completely automatic symmetry group calculations via
computer algebra in REDUCE. Thus, in Version
3.3
of the REDUCE
User's Manual, there is
a
description of SPDE (Symmetries of Par-
tial Differential Equations). A pa.cka.ge also exists
for
the calculation
of group symmetries of ordinary differential equations (SODE). De-
tails of the SPDE and SODE programs are given by Schwarz (1987b,
1988).
Champagne and Winternitz (1985) have developed
a
computer
algebra package for symmetry calculations using MACSYMA. Ker-
sten (1987, 1989), using REDUCE, has introduced semi-automatic
routines. See also Gragert (1989). Nucci (1990) has 1ia.d problems
with automatic packages and has produced an interactive package
called NUSY.
In Russia, early computer algebra packages developed were CINO
and PASSIV (see Ovsiannikov, 1978, p. 571). The application of
computer algebra to the calculation of generalized symmtries of con-
tact and Lie-Backlund type has been discussed by Eliseev, Fedorova
and Kornyak, 1985 and Fedorova and Kornyak, 198G. Many of the
recent ideas and applications of computer algebra are described in
the Proceedings of the
Conference on Computer Algebra and Its Ap-
plications in Theoretical Physics,
held in Dubna, USSR
in
1985 (Cov-
orun, Chairman, 1987). See also Hussin (1990) for the Proceedings
of
a
Canadian Mathematical Society Seminar.
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