Verschelde, Jan (ed.); Watt, Stephen M. (ed.); Zhi, Lihong (ed.) TCS SNC preface. (English) Zbl 1365.00072 Theor. Comput. Sci. 681, 1-2 (2017). From the text: This special issue of Theoretical Computer Science presents selected enhanced papers on Symbolic Numeric Computation presented at the SNC 2014 symposium held 28–31 July 2014 in Shanghai, China, http://symbolic-numeric-computation.org/snc-2014, as well as closely-related works. The subject areas of the meeting included: \(\bullet\) Hybrid symbolic-numeric algorithms in linear, polynomial and differential algebra\(\bullet\) Approximate polynomial GCD and factorization\(\bullet\) Symbolic-numeric methods for solving polynomial equations and systems of equations\(\bullet\) Resultants and structured matrices for symbolic-numeric computation\(\bullet\) Differential equations for symbolic-numeric computation\(\bullet\) Symbolic-numeric methods for geometric computation\(\bullet\) Symbolic-numeric algorithms in algebraic geometry\(\bullet\) Symbolic-numeric algorithms for nonlinear optimization\(\bullet\) Implementation of symbolic-numeric algorithms\(\bullet\) Model construction by approximate algebraic algorithms\(\bullet\) Applications of symbolic-numeric computation. MSC: 00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest 00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest 68-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to computer science PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. Verschelde} (ed.) et al., Theor. Comput. Sci. 681, 1--2 (2017; Zbl 1365.00072) Full Text: DOI