Open AccessTHE "GRAY BOX" APPROACH: THE POTENTIAL OF SYMBOLIC MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE IN ENGINEERING ANALYSIS AND EDUCATION
Author(s) -
Tom Lee
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3980
Subject(s) - computer science , software engineering , symbolic numeric computation , symbolic computation , software , symbolic execution , software system , black box , context (archaeology) , gray (unit) , computation , theoretical computer science , programming language , artificial intelligence , mathematics , medicine , mathematical analysis , paleontology , radiology , biology
The proverbial "black box" refers to computing tools where the user is shielded from the inner algorithms and interacts with the system from a purely and input and output point of view. Most modern engineering modeling and simulation software are based on this notion. The "gray box" is a term that describes the symbolic approach to engineering computation that offers distinct benefits in education and research. This paper offers an introduction to the tools and techniques of successfully deploying symbolic tools. The Maple system will be used as the software context.