The 31 contributed papers presented at the AD2012 conference cover the application of algorithmic differentiation (AD) to many areas in science and engineering as well as aspects of AD theory and its implementation in tools. This title presents proceedings of this conference.

The proceedings represent the state of knowledge in the area of algorithmic differentiation (AD). The 31 contributed papers presented at the AD2012 conference cover the application of AD to many areas in science and engineering as well as aspects of AD theory and its implementation in tools. For all papers the referees, selected from the program committee and the greater community, as well as the editors have emphasized accessibility of the presented ideas also to non-AD experts. In the AD tools arena new implementations are introduced covering, for example, Java and graphical modeling...