History of AAECC

The AAECC Symposium was born at Toulouse in June 1983 at University Paul Sabatier. During first AAECC all talks were on Coding and Combinatorics and the symposium proceeding was published in Discrete Mathematics in 1985. To date, there have been 16 AAECC symposiums which were held successively at the following places:

	Year	Location	Proceedings
AAECC-01	1983	Toulouse, France	Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 56, 1985
AAECC-02	1984	Toulouse, France	Springer LNCS 228, 1986
AAECC-03	1985	Grenoble, France	Springer LNCS 229, 1986
AAECC-04	1986	Karlsruhe, Germany	Springer LNCS 307, 1988
AAECC-05	1987	Menorca, Spain	Springer LNCS 356, 1989
AAECC-06	1988	Rome, Italy	Springer LNCS 357, 1989
AAECC-07	1989	Toulouse, France	Discrete Mathematics
AAECC-08	1990	Tokyo, Japan	Springer LNCS 508, 1991
AAECC-09	1991	New Orleans, LA, USA	Springer LNCS 539, 1991
AAECC-10	1993	San Juan, Puerto Rico	Springer LNCS 673, 1993
AAECC-11	1995	Paris, France	Springer LNCS 948, 1995
AAECC-12	1997	Toulouse, France	Springer LNCS 1255, 1997
AAECC-13	1999	Honolulu, Hawaii, USA	Springer LNCS 1719, 1989
AAECC-14	2001	Melbourne, Australia	Springer LNCS 2227, 2001
AAECC-15	2003	Toulouse, France	Springer LNCS 2643, 2003
AAECC-16	2006	Las Vegas, NV, USA	Springer LNCS 3857, 2006

The aim of AAECC is to encourage cross-fertilization between different areas that develop algebraic methods and their applications. AAECC was the first Symposium to introduce Gröbner bases into the coding domain. There is a natural link between, for example, concatenated codes, 2-D Fire codes, Abelian codes, multivariate polynomials algebras, and Gröbner bases.