There has been a call for papers for a special issue of the
London Mathematical Society's
Journal of Computational Mathematics for
Calculemus 2003 going from the conference end up to January 2004. The
intention was to select the best papers from the Calculemus 2003 conference
and an agreement has been made not to publish the call for papers outside the
community.
We got few submissions of revised papers and we have not been in touch with
the JCM untll almost one year after the conference. Refereeing thus began very
late.
As it is usual for Computer Science topics much of the originality of the
papers disappears while software and techniques evolve and this might be the
reason why we had difficulties to find valuable referees for the LMS
submissions.
I however think that most reports, though many were not positive enough, were
valuable and showed that we could not pass the threshold for an LMS special
issue. For most submissions, one non enthusiastic referee motivated
rejection. Authors who did not receive negative comments have been invited to
resubmit independently of the special issue.
I would like to thank all the submitters and referees for their contribution
to Calculemus and regret that we cannot further disseminate our scientific
interests.
Remember that the Calculemus informal proceedings are available on line at