Special Section on Two Themes: CSE Software and Big Data in CSE

The 2015 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) was held March 14-18, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) created this special section in association with the CSE15 conference. The special section focuses on two topics that are of significant current interest to CSE researchers: CSE software and big data in CSE. The development of efficient, robust, and sustainable software is at the core of CSE. Software itself is now broadly recognized as a key crosscutting technology that connects advances in mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering. Software encapsulates progress in algorithms, methods, and implementations across CSE and thereby provides a foundation for long-term CSE collaboration and scientific progress. A second topic of great current interest in CSE and beyond is how the data revolution enables new ways of generating quantitative insight for applications in science, engineering, technology, and soc...