"The Architecture of Scientific Software addresses emerging methodologies and tools for the rational design of scientific software. Including component integration frame-works, network-based computing formal methods of abstraction, application programmer interface design, and the role of object-oriented languages.". "This book comprises the proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Conference on the Architecture of Scientific Software, which was held in Ottawa, Canada in October 2000. It will prove valuable reading for developers of scientific software as well as for researchers in computational sciences and engineering."--BOOK JACKET.