5. Conclusion and future work
In recent years, μ-bases have been shown to have interesting properties. Once a μ-basis of a rational curve or surface is obtained, we can efficiently compute both the implicit equation and a parametrization. Other researchers achieve some additional important results including theorems, algorithms and applications for μ-bases (Chen, 2003; Chen et al., 2005; Chen and Wang, 2003a, 2003b; Deng et al., 2005; Jia, 2014). Nevertheless, there are still open problems, for instance, computing a μ-basis from an implicit equation. This motivates us to consider the first problem on ruled surfaces which are popular in practical applications. The current results are almost all for symbolic computations. However, in applications, the main computations are numerical computations. There are gaps between symbolic algorithms and numerical implements. In the future we hope to fill in some of these gaps with between symbolic and numeric computations.