During the course of the project, the Consortium made every effort to respond to changes in the technological environment and maintain focus on areas which were identified as being of particular strategic importance. In the final analysis we believe that the overall project objectives have been achieved, despite some aspects of the project being inevitably less successful than we would have liked.
The original aspiration to produce a single tightly-integrated body of algorithmic software proved impossible to achieve. The project was fortunate in attracting interest and involvement from talented individuals who brought expertise in specific areas and who were willing to contribute implementations of their algorithms. However they were not motivated to make the considerable effort necessary to broaden the applicability of their software and integrate it into a single consistent framework. This is not by any means a trivial task and the project did not have sufficient resources available to carry it out. The algorithmic software produced by the project is therefore distributed over a number of libraries.
On the other hand the work on inter-language communication has been much more successful and proved to be applicable in a much wider setting than was ever envisaged at the start of the project. The steady increase in the popularity of Java, which is similar in many significant respects to Aldor, as a standard vehicle for software development has created a number of potential new outlets for the tools and technologies developed during the project.
The algorithmic investigations have proved to be comprehensive and thorough, and work is underway to organise the many reports produced during the project into a standard reference work covering the whole field of polynomial system solving. This has the potential to form the definitive basis for future work in this area.