The Scilab Team inheritating the expertise of the french research institute INRIA, in computer sciences and automation, is now part of Dassault Systèmes. The team is comprised of engineers and doctors of science from higher education schools or universities, graduated in mathematics, automation, telecommunications, physics or computer science. They have extensive knowledge of Scilab software and its environment and directly participate to Scilab development. Since mid 2022, the Scilab Team is part of Dassault Systèmes. Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, is a catalyst for human progress and provides business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating 'virtual twin experiences’ of the real world with its 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, Dassault Systèmes' customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production. Dassault Systèmes’ 20,000 employees are bringing value to more than 300,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.
Numerical Analysis
Numerical analysis or Scientific computing is the study of approximation techniques for numerically solving mathematical problems.
Scilab is based on methods of numerical computation:
- Data analysis
- Algorithm development
- Model
Available methods include:
- Interpolation and regression
- Differentiation and integration
- Linear systems of equations
- Fourier analysis
- Ordinary differential equations (ODEs)
- Matrix computation (determination of eigenvalues and singular values)
Data visualization
Scilab provides graphics functions to visualize, annotate and export data and offers many ways to create and customize various types of plots and charts:
- Lines
- Pie charts
- Histograms
- Surfaces
- LaTeX / MathML annotations
- Online Help chapter
- Graphics export in many formats: PNG, PPM, EMF, EPS, FIG, PDF, SVG.
- Online Help chapter
Algos development
Scilab is a high level programming language for scientific programming. It enables a rapid prototyping of algorithms, without having to deal with the complexity of other more low level programming language such as C and Fortran (memory management, variable definition, …). This is natively handled by Scilab, which results in a few lines of code for complex mathematical operations, where other languages would require much longer codes.
It also comes with advanced data structure such as polynomials, matrices and graphic handles and provides an easily operable development environment:
- Scinotes is a text editor enabling easy script edition with autocompletion, automatic indentation, code navigator, statement executing possibility and to manage multiple instances.
- Variables editor allows you to handle/edit the variables as matrices and analyze it through different kind of plot. You can also copy / paste values from a spreadsheet or from another application
App development
Data management