The SYMBOLICDATA Project

Towards an Electronic Repository of Tools and Data
for Benchmarks of Computer Algebra Software

Olaf Bachmann
Department of Mathematics
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
[email protected] - Hans-Gert Gräbe
Department of Computer Science
University of Leipzig, Germany
[email protected] - http://www.SymbolicData.org

January 26, 2000

Abstract:

The SYMBOLICDATA project has the following three main goals: 1. to systematically collect existing symbolic computation benchmark data and to produce tools to extend and maintain this collection; 2. to design and implement concepts for trusted benchmarks computations on the collected data; and 3. to provide tools for data access/selection/transformation using different technologies.

SYMBOLICDATA has developed from a ``grass root initiative'' of a small number of people to a stage where it should be presented to, and evaluated and used by a wider community.

In this paper we report about the current state of the project, i.e., we describe the main design principles and tools which were developed to realize our goals.