Modern group analysis

the long version

This volume contains a careful selection of papers presented by leading scientists at the workshop on `Modern Group Analysis: Advanced Analytical and Computational Methods in Mathematical Physics' held at Catania in Sicily, October 27--31, 1992. The thirty-nine contributions presented embrace the following topics: Classical Lie groups applied to the construction of invariant solutions and conservation laws; conditional (partial) symmetries; Bäcklund transformations; approximate symmetries; group analysis of finite-difference equations; problems of group classification and software packages in group analysis. Together this selection of papers provides excellent reviews of many of the exciting developments in this rapidly expanding branch of applied mathematics. For researchers in mathematical physics and applied mathematics whose work involves group analysis and its applications.