Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes

This volume is the proceedings of the 10th International
Symposium on         Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and
Error-Correcting Codes (AAECC 10), held in Puerto Rico, May
1993.
The aim of the AAECC meetings is to         attract high-level
research papers and to encourage cross-fertilization      among
different areas which share the use of algebraic methods                     and
techniques for applications in the sciences of                                       computing,
communications, and engineering.
The AAECC symposia are         mainly devoted to research in coding
theory and computer algebra. The theoryof error-correcting
codes deals with the transmission of information in      the
presence of noise. Coding is the systematic use of
redundancy in theformation of the messages to be sent so as
to enable the recovery of the      information present originally
after it has been corrupted by (not too much)noise.
Computer algebra is devoted to the investigation of
algorithms,   computational methods, software systems and
computer languages, oriented to scientific computations
performed on exact and often symbolic data, by         manipulating
formal expressions by means of the algebraic rules                  they
satisfy. Questions of complexity and cryptography are
naturally      linked with both coding theory and computer
algebra and represent an            important share of the area covered
by AAECC.