Communication-Oriented Representation of Mathematical Objects

This paper presents two standards for communicating mathematical objects between computer programs, for representing these objects on multimedia such as the web, and our experimentation with those standards to develop input and output compliant processors which can be used as basic components to build an effective World Wide Web computational server. 1 Introduction Recent trends in mathematical software include rapid development in computer algebra packages, numerical algorithm libraries and visualization packages. This proliferation has created a need for standard tools that allow the packages to communicate with each other. Since each package has its own strengths and weaknesses, it is desirable to be able to use a particular package for the specific tasks it is good at, and to switch between different packages when necessary. Moreover, the ability to share data between packages allows modular problem solving, where sub-tasks are delegated to specific packages. This eliminates the ..