Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. Proceedings of the Workshop on Ordinary Differential Equations held in L'Aquila, September 16--18, 1987.

Contents: C. Baiocchi, Stability in linear abstract differential equations (pp. 1–21); A. Bellen, Parallelism across the steps for difference and differential equations (pp. 22–35); G. Di Lena and D. Trigiante, On the spectrum of families of matrices with applications to stability problems (pp. 36–53); C. W. Gear, DAEs: ODEs with constraints and invariants (pp. 54–68); P. J. van der Houwen, B. P. Sommeijer and G. Pontrelli, A comparative study of Chebyshev acceleration and residue smoothing in the solution of nonlinear elliptic difference equations (pp. 69–96); Olavi Nevanlinna, A note on Picard-Lindel¨of iteration (pp. 97–102); Syvert P. Nørsett and Harald H. Simonsen, Aspects of parallel Runge-Kutta methods (pp. 103–117); L. F. Shampine, Tolerance proportionality in ODE codes (pp. 118–136).