International Symposium on Stiff Differential Systems: Introduction. - Composite Multistep Methods and Stiff Stability. - Numerical A-Stability for Difference-Differential Systems. - Computation of Real-Time-Control in Aerospace Applications by Multiple Shooting Procedures: Extended Abstract. - Simulation of Chemical Kinetics Transport in the Stratosphere. - The Sets of Smooth Solutions of Differential and Difference Equations. - Integration Package for Chemical Kinetics. - Optimal Second Derivative Methods for Stiff Systems. - The Stability of Automatic Programs for Numerical Problems. - An Implementation of Gear's Algorithm for CSMP III. - A Pseudodynamic Method for Solving Nonlinear Algebraic Equations. - The Validation and Comparison of Programs for Stiff Systems. - Numerical Solution of Singular Perturbation Problems. - Two Unconventional Classes of Methods for Stiff Systems. - The Occurrence and Numerical Solution of Physical and Chemical Systems Having Widely Varying Time Constants. - A Stiff System Package Based on the Implicit Midpoint Method with Smoothing and Extrapolation. - Construction of a Family of Second Order A-Stable K-Step Formulas Depending on the Maximum Number 2K-2 of Parameters. - Stiffness and Accuracy in the Method of Lines Integration of Partial Differential Equations. - Economical Global Error Estimation. - Consistency and Stability for One-Step Discretizations of Stiff Differential Equations. - Author List. - Index for Papers and Bibliography. Language: English