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Volume 17, Number 1--3, 1989E. R. Kouyoumdjian A set theoretic approach to the symmetry analysis of hexcadecahedrane . . . . . . 375--395
C. A. Los The prejudices of least squares, principal components and common factors schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269--1283 C. A. Los Identification of a linear system from inexact data: a three-variable example 1285--1304
P. A. Zadrozny Analytic derivatives for estimation of linear dynamic models . . . . . . . . . 539--553
S. N. Busenberg and J. M. Mahaffy A compartmental reaction--diffusion cell cycle model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883--892
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i M. Arató and A. Bagchi and I. Fazekas Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii N. M. Arató Quadratic functionals of generalized Gaussian random fields . . . . . . . . . 1--7 Arunabha Bagchi Boundary value processes: Estimation and identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--19 J. Bokor and M. Tanyi and Gy. Terdik Forward and backward Markovian state space models of second order process . . 21--29 A. Ya. Dorogovtsev Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of stationary and periodic solutions of a stochastic difference equation in Hilbert space . . . . . . . 31--37 S. N. Dubonos and B. N. Gaifullin and N. G. Ushakov Statistical image restoration . . . . . 39--45 I. Gyöngy The approximation of stochastic partial differential equations and applications in nonlinear filtering . . . . . . . . . 47--63 I. Gyöngy and T. Pröhle On the approximation of stochastic differential equation and on Stroock--Varadhan's support theorem . . 65--70 A. Halilov Asymptotic normality of lag window estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--74 J. Kormos Hypothesis testing for nearly nonstationary autoregressive models . . 75--82 V. S. Koroljuk Central limit theorem for semi-Markov random evolutions . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88 Rati E. Koukhaleishvili Asymptotic distribution of the quadratic deviation of the regression curve recursive estimator . . . . . . . . . . 89--96 I. Kun Iteration convergence speed estimation using the LIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100 Nick N. Leonenko Sojourns of multidimensional Gaussian random fields with dependent components 101--108 G. K. Mishkoy Priority queueing involving orientation and the problems of their software implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113 Gy. Pap and J. Bokor and P. Gáspár Analysis of multiple model method for change detection of AR processes . . . . 115--121 A. L. Poguda and E. K. Shpilewski Dynamical methods for random processes recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132 N. A. Ruzevic Limit properties of functionals on irregular semi-Markovian processes . . . 133--139 S. Solntsev On almost sure stability of the solutions of stochastic recurrent equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--142 J. Sztrik and T. Gál A queueing model for a terminal system subject to breakdowns . . . . . . . . . 143--147 Ken-Ichi Yoshihara Conditional empirical processes defined by $ \phi $ --- mixing sequences . . . . 149--158
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II T. C. E. Cheng Dynamic programming approach to the single-machine sequencing problem with different due-dates . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 A. Kharab A Poiseuille flow past a permeable hill 9--15 G. K. Kulev and D. D. Bainov Global stability of sets for impulsive differential systems by Lyapunov's direct method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28 T. Z. Kalamboukis Tridiagonalization of band symmetric matrices for vector computers . . . . . 29--34 M. J. Casper and D. A. Voss $ L_0 $-stable split linear multistep formulas for parabolic PDEs . . . . . . 35--46 H. J. Rojo and P. L. Huerta and J. B. Rojo and F. Zamorano Polynomial basis functions for curved elements using hyperbolas . . . . . . . 47--54 R. K. Sharma Numerical analysis of a quasi linear differential equation with weak diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60 P. J. Szabowski Elliptically contoured random variables and their application to the extension of the Kalman filter . . . . . . . . . . 61--72 S. H. Bakry A new method for computing Erlang-B formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74 A. K. Mitra Minimal Boolean sum-of-product forms in prolog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81 H. Zedan Avoiding the exactness of the Jacobian matrix in Rosenbrock formulae . . . . . 83--89 D. Greenspan Conservative difference formulations of Calogero and Toda Hamiltonian systems 91--95 E. R. Kouyoumdjian Errata to ``A set theoretic approach to the symmetry analysis of hexadecahedrane'': Computers Math. Applic. \bf 17 (1--3), 375--395 (1989) 97--97 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
B. A. Fusaro Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii D. C. Arney and B. T. Robinson Exhibiting chaos and fractals with a microcomputer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 S. Breuer and J. Gal-Ezer and G. Zwas Microcomputer laboratories in mathematics education . . . . . . . . . 13--34 R. Bronson and C. Jacobson Modeling the dynamics of social systems 35--42 L. C. Leinbach Computer algebra and the microcomputer 43--51 S. S. Wagstaff, Jr. Some uses of microcomputers in number theory research . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--58
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II R. K. Sharma and P. Majumdar High speed numerical technique to solve coupled moving boundary value heat problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 A. B. Shamardan Central finite difference schemes for nonlinear dispersive waves . . . . . . . 9--15 B. Pourbabai An assembly cell with an automated quality control station: Exponentially distributed processing times . . . . . . 17--30 F. A. Milner A numerical method for a model of population dynamics with spatial diffusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--43 A. H. A. Ahmed Asymptotic properties of collocation projection norms . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50 R. S. Bucy and M. K. Namiri and J. R. Velman Minimax control . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63 Z. Chen Hybrid variable finite elements for semiconductor devices . . . . . . . . . 65--73 E. H. Doha An accurate solution of parabolic equations by expansion in ultraspherical polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 Baoxin Li and A. G. Law and H. Raafat and P. H. Nguyen and Y.-F. Yan Eigenvalues of tridiagonal matrices: an alternative to Givens' method . . . . . 89--94 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Erwin Y. Rodin Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II F. Feuillebois Precise calculation of numerical derivatives using Lagrange and Hermite interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 R. J. Li and E. S. Lee Multi-criteria de Novo programming with fuzzy parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20 C. Chiccoli and S. Lorenzutta and G. Maino Recent results for generalized exponential integrals . . . . . . . . . 21--29 R. Souidi A new sequential test for detection of a point of change in ARMA parameters . . . 31--39 N. Budinsky and A. A. Ungar Electromagnetic head waves . . . . . . . 41--53 S. W. Armfield and C. A. J. Fletcher Symbolic analysis of reduced forms of the Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . 55--65 A. H. Khater and A. E. El-Sharif and N. A. Hussien Analytical solutions of the Rayleigh flow problem for one component charged rarefied gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--73 P. J. Szablowski Expansions of $ E(X Z | Y + \epsilon X) $ and their applications to the analysis of elliptically contoured measures . . . 75--83 S. K. Roy Choudhuri and G. Chatterjee Roy Temperature-rate dependent magnetothermoelastic waves in a finitely conducting elastic half-space . . . . . 85--93 N. K. Jha A new class of symmetric error correcting/unidirectional error detecting codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--104
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II R. R. Joshi An intelligent system for DNA repair . . 1--7 T. Altman Application of contractor directions for solving systems of nonlinear equations 9--14 D. A. Murio and L. Guo Discrete stability analysis of the mollification method for numerical differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--26 J. M. Wolff and S. Fleeter Viscous unsteady gust aerodynamics of a flat plate airfoil by a locally analytical method . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36 B. P. Sommeijer Increasing the real stability boundary of explicit methods . . . . . . . . . . 37--49 W. Page Computer algebra systems: Issues and inquiries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--69 A. Barakahani and R. S. Dahiya Iterative Laplace transforms of two variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--93 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II R. W. Brankin and I. Gladwell Codes for almost block diagonal systems 1--6 J. H. Hanson and A. C. Benander and B. A. Benander The computer generated symbolic solution of a system of linear first order differential equations . . . . . . . . . 7--12 W. A. Chren, Jr. A new residue number system division algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--29 C. S. McCahon and E. S. Lee Job sequencing with fuzzy processing times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--41 T. Nanda An interactive method for the eigenvalue problem for matrices . . . . . . . . . . 43--51 B. Pourbabai Approximation of the overflow process of a D/G/K loss system . . . . . . . . . . 53--58 P. Liebermann and R. Liebermann Symmetry in question and answer sequences in music . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66 A. B. Shamardan The numerical treatment of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . 67--73 L. Guo and D. A. Murio and C. Roth A mollified space marching finite differences algorithm for the inverse heat conduction problem with slab symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--89 D. Greenspan Supercomputer simulation of colliding microdrops of water . . . . . . . . . . 91--97 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHarnessing the corporate PC: By Joseph L. Podolsky. Prentice--Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (1988). 354 pages. \$29.95} . . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLectures on the electrical properties of materials: By L. Soylmar and D. Walsh. OUP, Oxford (1988). 465 pages Paper \$27.50; Cloth \$55.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--99 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputer science --- a modern introduction: By Les Goldschlager and Andrew Lister. Prentice--Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (1988). 330 pages. \$30.00} . . . . . . 99--100 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleArtificial intelligence --- A knowledge-based approach: B. Morris W. Firebaugh. Boyd & Fraser. (1988). 740 pages. \$40.00} . . 100--100 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputer systems development: By Denis A. Connor. Prentice--Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (1988). 194 pages. \$26.25} . . . . . . 100--100 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNumerical recipes in C --- The art of scientific computing: By William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky and William T. Vetterling. Cambridge Univ. Press, U.K. (1988). 735 pages. \$44.50} . . . . 100--100 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUser-centered requirements analysis: By Charles F. Martin. Prentice--Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 305 pages. \$40.00} . . . . 100--100
Anonymous Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii S. K. Dey Foreward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix G. A. Sod A random choice method for the Stefan problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 C. I. Goldstein Preconditioned iterative methods for convection diffusion and related boundary value problems . . . . . . . . 11--29 Z. U. A. Warsi and J. F. Thompson Application of variational methods in the fixed and adaptive grid generation 31--41 P. Szmolyan Initial transients of solutions of the semiconductors device equations . . . . 43--58 R. Vichnevetsky A quantum-like theory of wave propagation in periodic structures . . . 59--75 K. R. Kurkal and S. S. Munukutla Computational study of an unsteady heat transfer problem related to high power lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--83 L. Sakell Use of local time stepping with full pseudospectral solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations of motion for flows with shock waves . . . . . . . . . 85--94 T. V. Kostova Numerical solutions to equations modelling nonlinearly interacting age-dependent populations . . . . . . . 95--103 T. Mazumdar Existence of solution of the operator equation AX --- XB = $Q$ with possibly unbounded A, $B$, $Q$ . . . . . . . . . 105--116 J. F. Glazebrook Strings, harmonic maps and hyperbolic systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--125 E. J. Kansa Multiquadrics --- a scattered data approximation scheme with applications to computational fluid-dynamics --- I: surface approximations and partial derivative estimates . . . . . . . . . . 127--145 E. J. Kansa Multiquadrics --- a scattered data approximation scheme with applications to computational fluid-dynamics --- II. Solutions to parabolic, hyperbolic and elliptic partial differential equations 147--161 R. L. Hardy Theory and applications of the multiquadric-biharmonic method 20 years of discovery 1968-1988 . . . . . . . . . 163--208
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II Anonymous 5th International workshop of the Bellman Continuum . . . . . . . . . . . III Anonymous 13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics . . . . . . . . III--IV B. Codenotti and M. Leoncini Parallelism and fast solution of linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18 Ch. G. Makridakis Cosine methods for a class of semilinear second-order wave equations . . . . . . 19--34 D. A. Murio and L. Guo A stable space marching finite differences algorithm for the inverse heat conduction problem with no initial filtering procedure . . . . . . . . . . 35--50 Qin Meng-Zhao and Zhang Mei-Qing Multi-stage symplectic schemes of two kinds of Hamiltonian systems for wave equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--62 P. A. Ramachandran A boundary element method based solution procedure for non-linear boundary value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--76 Antonio Lanza and Mark R. Dubal An application of the Multi-Grid method to the construction of initial data for Brill Waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85 Do Y. Kwak and U. Jin Choi and Sung H. Bae An algebraic geometric method to calculate branches near a bifurcation point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90 Pierre Baldi and Edward C. Posner Graph coloring bounds for cellular radio 91--97 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
A. O. Esogbue Reflections on the contributions to the second Bellman continuum . . . . . . . . 1--2 A. O. Esogbue and C. W. Ahn Computational experiments with a class of dynamic programming algorithms of higher dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23 M. J. Beckmann Dynamic programming and the secretary problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--28 E. G. Read and J. A. George Dual dynamic programming for linear production/inventory systems . . . . . . 29--42 N. Kaio and S. Osaki Optimal ordering policies with two types of randomized lead times . . . . . . . . 43--52 F. A. Al-Khayyal Jointly constrained bilinear programs and related problems: an overview . . . 53--62 J. A. Ramos A Kalman-tracking filter approach to nonlinear programming . . . . . . . . . 63--74 A. P. Wang Invariant imbedding and nonpredictive operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80 P. K. Misra and E. S. Lee Optimal estimation in stream quality modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96 D. R. Cutler and I. L. Reilly A comparison of some Hausdorff notions in fuzzy topological spaces . . . . . . 97--104 J. F. Baldwin Computational models of uncertainty reasoning in expert systems . . . . . . 105--119 S. Kim and S. M. Meerkov and T. Runolfsson Residence probability control . . . . . 121--125 N. G. Medhin Minimizing sequences for differential inclusion problems in the presence of state constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 127--134 P. A. Ruymgaart and T. T. Soong An integral equation in systems theory 135--140 G. Olaf Quadrature solution of singular integral equations --- I: a uniform treatment of Fredholm and Volterra equations . . . . 141--146 G. Birkhoff and E. C. Gartland, Jr. and R. E. Lynch Difference methods for solving convection--diffusion equations . . . . 147--160
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . i--xii T.-W. Hwang and C.-A. Wang Existence and classification of solutions for a problem of surface-tension driven flows in a slot with an insulated bottom . . . . . . . . 1--8 G. Adomian and R. Rach Equality of partial solutions in the decomposition method for linear or nonlinear partial differential equations 9--12 P. Góra and A. Boyarsky Higher-dimensional point transformations and asymptotic measures for cellular automata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31 A. A. Ungar A unified approach for solving quadratic, cubic and quartic equations by radicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39 R. W. Lardner Stability of the numerical solution of a parabolic system with integral subsidiary conditions . . . . . . . . . 41--46 M. M. Chawla and M. K. Jain and R. Subramanian The application of explicit Nyström methods to singular second order differential equations . . . . . . . . . 47--51 P. Powell and H. C. Lau Branch distance optimization of structured programs . . . . . . . . . . 53--64 T. Altman A method of inexact steepest descent for systems of linear equations . . . . . . 65--69 A. van Niekerk and F. D. van Niekerk An explicit finite element method for convection--diffusion equations using rational basis functions . . . . . . . . 71--77 K. H. Wong and K. L. Teo An exact penalty function algorithm for time-lag control problems with control and terminal equality constraints . . . 79--94 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II G. Adomian and R. Rach Purely nonlinear differential equations 1--3 S.-J. Wang and N. K. Jha Systematic $t$-error correcting/all unidirectional error detecting codes with easy encoding/decoding . . . . . . 5--13 M. Calvo and J. I. Montijano and L. Randez A new embedded pair of Runge--Kutta formulas of orders 5 and 6 . . . . . . . 15--24 V. Ruggiero and E. Galligani An iterative method for large sparse linear systems on a vector computer . . 25--28 N. Boland and A. I. Mees New methods for multi-commodity flows 29--38 C. Zhou A permutation-generating algorithm . . . 39--42 C. S. Brown Capacity of the regular polyhedra . . . 43--56 T. Altman A hypo-quadratic convergence method for systems of nonlinear equations . . . . . 57--60 B. K. Datta A technique for approximate solutions to Schro\"dinger-like equations . . . . . . 61--65 P. Glaister A similarity solution for a shock-reflection problem in isentropic gas dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--75 D. Sarafyan New algorithms for the continuous approximate solutions of ordinary differential equations and the upgrading of the order of the processes . . . . . 77--100
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II M. Torabi Decomposed block Cholesky factorization in the Karmarkar algorithm: Solving a class of super large LP problems . . . . 1--7 V. Pan and J. Reif The bit-complexity of discrete solutions of partial differential equations: Compact multigrid . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16 V. Pan Estimating the extremal eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--22 N. Ghosh and W. W. Hager A derivative-free bracketing scheme for univariate minimization . . . . . . . . 23--34 C.-A. Wang and T.-W. Hwang and Y.-Y. Chen Existence of solutions for Berman's equation from laminar flows in a porous channel with suction . . . . . . . . . . 35--40 W. V. Gehrlein and P. C. Fishburn Linear extension majority cycles for small $ (n \leq 9) $ partial orders . . 41--44 A. van Niekerk and F. D. van Niekerk A Galerkin method with rational basis functions for Burgers' equation . . . . 45--51 R. Kalaba and L. Tesfatsion Nonlocal automated sensitivity analysis 53--65 Iosif A. Krass Shadow method for convex programming with application for Navy credit sea/shore rotation problem . . . . . . . 67--80 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--92
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III V. Pan The modified barrier function method for linear programming and its extensions 1--14 P. Bogacki and L. F. Shampine Interpolating high-order Runge--Kutta formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--24 M. Mahmoudi Particle modelling of fluid phenomena in $3$-D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--44 P. Glaister Flux-difference splitting for inviscid, real gases with non-equilibrium chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51 I. J. D. Craig and A. D. Sneyd An alternating direction implicit scheme for parabolic systems of partial differential equations . . . . . . . . . 53--62 B. J. Arnow Representation of permutations, combinations and dihedral elements as trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67 R. J. Cimikowski Coloring certain proximity graphs . . . 69--82 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--91
Anonymous About this issue . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix Anonymous Author's guidelines . . . . . . . . . . xi--xi M. Witten Mathematical modeling and computers in medicine: Editor's remarks . . . . . . . xiii--xv L. F. Harris and M. R. Sullivan and D. F. Hickok Conservation of genetic information between regulatory protein DNA binding alpha helices and their cognate operator sites: a simple code for site-specific recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--23 L. F. Harris and M. R. Sullivan and D. F. Hickok Genetic sequences of hormone response elements share similarity with predicted alpha helices within DNA binding domains of steroid receptor proteins: a basis for site-specific recognition . . . . . 25--48 S. Le and R. Nussinov and J. V. Maizel, Jr. Studies of local stability in histone, U-snRNA and globin precursor mRNAs around transcription termination sites 49--56 J. L. Carrascosa and J. M. Carazo and L. Herranz and L. E. Donate and J. P. Secilla Study of two related configurations of the neck of bacteriophage O29 . . . . . 57--65 A. Boudiaf and Y. Cherruault and R. Belle Modelling and optimization of meiotic cell division of \bionamexenopus oocytes 67--72 S. Guellal and C. J. Papapanayotou and Y. Cherruault and J. Sainte-Laudy A mathematical model of the allergen-triggered human basophil receptivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77 P. Auger Cell lifetime and chemical kinetics . . 79--85 R. L. Seither and D. Hearne and D. Trent and D. C. Mikulecky and I. D. Goldman SPICE2 network thermodynamic simulation of antifolate effects on purine and pyrimidine biosynthesis: Exploring the role of tetrahydrofolate cofactor depletion versus dihydrofolate feedback inhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--101 D. Buckwitz and G. Jacobasch and H.-G. Holzhütter A kinetic model of phosphofructokinase from \bionamePlasmodium berghei --- application of a novel procedure for model discrimination . . . . . . . . . . 103--106 W. M. L. Holcombe Towards a formal description of intracellular biochemical organization 107--115 D. Buckwitz and H.-G. Holzhütter A new method to discriminate between enzyme-kinetic models . . . . . . . . . 117--126 I. Györi Some mathematical aspects of modelling cell population dynamics . . . . . . . . 127--138 S. Michelson A system for Monte Carlo simulation of heterogeneous tumor cell populations . . 139--148 S. Michelson and J. T. Leith Effects of differential cell kill on the dynamic composition of heterogeneous tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--159 E. O. Voit S-system modelling of endemic infections 161--173 Y.-H. Xu and E. P. Salathe Boundary value problems in microcirculatory physiology . . . . . . 175--197 C. J. Papapanayotou and Y. Cherruault and B. De La Rochefoucauld A mathematical model of the circle of Willis in the presence of an arteriovenous anomaly . . . . . . . . . 199--206 R. L. Ollerton A discrete segments approach to the optimization of insulin infusion algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--215 R. Martin Single-interval learning by simile within a simulated Hebbian neural network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--226 S. Tauber A systematic model for nerve transmission and memory . . . . . . . . 227--230 D. Krieger and T. W. Berger and S. Levitan and R. J. Sclabassi An interactive toolset for characterizing complex neural systems 231--246 H. B. Sieburg The cellular device machine: Point of departure for large-scale simulations of complex biological systems . . . . . . . 247--267 A. T. Pol Life: Energy-information relationship within material systems --- I. General outline of the concept . . . . . . . . . 269--285 C. Schwabe The genomic potential hypothesis and phase-state mathematics . . . . . . . . 287--301 W. B. Dress Electronic life and synthetic intelligent systems . . . . . . . . . . 303--312 V. K. Sondak and N. E. Sondak New directions for medical artificial intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313--319 S. Tauber A chemical robot model . . . . . . . . . 321--324 Y. Shraga and R. P. Tewarson Parameter estimation in underdetermined problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--337 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFractals everywhere: By Michael Barnsley. Academic Press, New York. 394 pp. . . . 339--339 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNeural and brain modeling: By Ronald J. MacGregor. Academic Press, New York. 643 pp. . . . 339--339 Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInput devices: Edited by Sol Sherr. Academic Press, New York. 301 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340 G. Conway Software review . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II Anonymous First international conference on computational modelling of free and moving boundary problems . . . . . . . . III--IV Y. M. Chen and L. M. Tseng A queuing network approach to the topological optimization of linked cluster networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 H. Arsham and A. B. Kahn A complete algorithm for linear fractional programs . . . . . . . . . . 11--23 N. K. Tsao The accuracy of a parallel $ L U $ decomposition algorithm . . . . . . . . 25--30 O. Rand and A. Rosen Approximate model of the unsteady lift of thin airfoils performing arbitrary motion in the presence of an arbitrary downwash distribution . . . . . . . . . 31--43 C. Börgers Generalized Delaunay triangulations of non-convex domains . . . . . . . . . . . 45--49 V. Rokhlin End-point corrected trapezoidal quadrature rules for singular functions 51--62 L. Greengard and W. D. Gropp A parallel version of the fast multipole method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71 S. N. Busenberg and J. M. Mahaffy Errata to ``A compartmental reaction--diffusion cell cycle model'': Computers Math. Applic. \bf 18 (10/11), 883--892 (1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--86
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II R. Bevilacqua and C. Lotti and F. Romani Storage compression of inverses of band matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 H. Abelson The bifurcation interpreter: a step towards the automatic analysis of dynamical systems . . . . . . . . . . . 13--35 B. Chandrika and R. R. Joshi Stochastic inventory analysis of antibody production . . . . . . . . . . 37--49 S. Abelman and D. Eyre A numerical study of multistep methods based on continued fractions . . . . . . 51--60 Y. Wu The discrete variational approach to the Euler--Lagrange equation . . . . . . . . 61--75 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii T. Huynh and C. Lassez An expert decision-support system for option-based investment strategies . . . 1--14 E. Y. Rodin and D. Geist Flight and fire control with logic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--27 G. E. Kersten and S. Szpakowicz and Z. Koperczak Modelling of decision making for discrete processes in dynamic environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43 T. Graf and P. Van Hentenryck and C. Pradelles-Lasserre and L. Zimmer Simulation of hybrid circuits in constraint logic programming . . . . . . 45--56 G. Friedrich and G. Gottlob and W. Nejdl Generating efficient diagnostic procedures from model-based knowledge using logic programming techniques . . . 57--72 B. Jayaraman Subset-equational programming in intelligent decision systems . . . . . . 73--82 A. Bonsignori and F. Giannotti and L. Lucchesi and F. Turini The logiform system . . . . . . . . . . 83--99 M. J. Pazzani Learning in order to avoid search in logic programming . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110 Y. Lirov and S. Ravikumar Intelligent interaction in diagnostic expert systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123 L. Ü. Yalçinalp and L. Sterling Diagnosing jaundice expert system . . . 125--140 V. Lirov and Y. Lirov A subject bibliography of logic programming applications in control and decision support systems . . . . . . . . 141--179
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II S. K. Roy Choudhuri and G. Chatterjee (Roy) Spherically symmetric thermoelastic waves in a temperature-rate dependent medium with a spherical cavity . . . . . 1--12 G. Steiner The connection between the bump number problem and flow-shop scheduling with precedence constraints . . . . . . . . . 13--18 J. Vanthournout and G. Vanden Berghe and H. De Meyer Families of backward differentiation methods based on a new type of mixed interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--30 J.-S. Wu Refining the diffusion approximation for the G/G/c queue . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--36 Y. Cherruault and M. Choubane and J. M. Valleton and J. C. Vincent Stability and asymptotic behavior of a numerical solution corresponding to a diffusion-reaction equation solved by a finite difference scheme (Crank--Nicolson) . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46 D. Greenspan Supercomputer studies in absolute minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--52 M. Sniedovich An analysis of a machine executable generalized $ \Sigma $-notation . . . . 53--65 W. L. Hogarth and B. J. Noye and J. Stagnitti and J. Y. Parlange and G. Bolt A comparative study of finite difference methods for solving the one-dimensional transport equation with an initial-boundary value discontinuity . . 67--82
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--II Anonymous List of contents and author index volume 20, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i--xi S. N. Ha Experimental numerical studies on a supercomputer of natural convection in an enclosure with localized heating . . 1--17 Z. R. Novakovi\'c Solving systems of non-linear equations using the Lyapunov direct method . . . . 19--23 P.-L. Shao An improved Lanczos algorithm for solving ill-conditioned linear equations 25--33 N. V. Milev and D. D. Bainov Stability of linear impulsive differential equations . . . . . . . . . 35--41 J. A. Snyman An interior feasible direction method with constraint projections for linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--54 L. M. Meaux and J. W. Seaman, Jr. and T. L. Boullion Calculation of multivariate Chebyshev-type inequalities . . . . . . 55--60 O. Rojo A new method for solving symmetric circulant tridiagonal systems of linear equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67 I. Bencsik and Gy. Michaletzky Identification of errors-in-variables models with Faurre type realization algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74 D. A. Murio and L. Guo Errata to ``Discrete stability analysis of the modification method for numerical diffentiation'': Computers Math. Applic. \bf 19 (6), 15--26 (1990) . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i M. Arató and T. Szántai Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii A. Benczúr and A. Kiss and T. Márkus On a general class of data dependencies in the relational model and its implication problems . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 János Demetrovics and Nguyen Xuan Huy Closed sets and translations of relation schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--23 J. Demetrovics and L. Rónyai and Hua Nam Son Dependency types . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--33 Eva Egert The model RAS and its sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--47 I. Farago Finite element method for solving nonlinear parabolic systems . . . . . . 49--57 István Farago Finite element method for solving nonlinear parabolic equations . . . . . 59--69 Cs. J. Hegedüs Generating conjugate directions for arbitrary matrices by matrix equations I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85 Cs. J. Hegedüs Generating conjugate directions for arbitrary matrices by matrix equations II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--94 V. Kertész Partial stability investigations of differential equations of second order 95--102 Tibor Illés Optimality criteria for general unconstrained geometric programming problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110 V. Kertész Conditions for the existence of solutions converging to zero in the case of homogeneous linear differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118 A. Kiss The application of the separation principle for the linear continuous systems with coloured noise . . . . . . 119--128 J. Kormos Hypothesis testing for nearly nonstationary AR(1) model with Gaussian autoregressive innovation . . . . . . . 129--136 András Sebö A particular timetable problem: Terminal scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--156 L. Telegdi Investigation of the structure of binary variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--168
S. S. Lin and F. C. Lin An O(log n) algorithm for computing periodic continued fractions and its applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 P. A. Ramachandran Boundary integral solution method for diffusion-reaction problems with both material and rate nonlinearities . . . . 7--13 K. Coolsaet and V. Fack Classifying strongly regular graphs using lexical ordering of adjacency matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21 M. M. Mohie El-Din Estimation of the mean and standard deviation of Burr distribution by order statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27 P. Glaister An efficient finite difference scheme for three-dimensional, non-equilibrium flows using operator splitting . . . . . 29--38 J. Van der Jeugt and V. Fack The pragacz identity and a new algorithm for Littlewood--Richardson coefficients 39--47 Moshe Sniedovich Solution strategies for variance minimization problems . . . . . . . . . 49--56 Wen Jian Chai and Gu Keqin and Nan K. Loh Transforming time-varying multivariable systems into block companion canonical forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--67 N. I. Ioakimidis The location of discontinuity intervals of sectionally analytic functions: Application to the interface crack problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74 Q. Zou and A. G. Ramm Numerical solution of some inverse scattering problems of geophysics . . . 75--80 Harriet H. Kagiwada and Julia K. Kagiwada and Robert E. Kalaba Associative memories for third-generation passive ranging . . . . 81--85 F. Feuillebois Numerical calculation of singular integrals related to Hankel transform 87--94 Shigui Ruan Oscillations of nth-order functional differential equations . . . . . . . . . 95--102 Chau-Jy Lin Generating subsets on a systolic array 103--109 Naoki Hashimoto Numerical algebraic surfaces . . . . . . 111--114 E. H. Doha The coefficients of differentiated expansions and derivatives of ultraspherical polynomials . . . . . . . 115--122 M. D. Gunzburger and L. Hou and T. P. Svobodny Finite element approximations of an optimal control problem associated with the scalar Ginzburg--Landau equation . . 123--131 P. M. Binder Machine iteration of a linear function: Local behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140 J. C. Misra and S. Roy Mathematical analysis of a specimen of tabular bone subjected to torsional loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--147 Marc Rouff and Wen Li Zhang An application of REDUCE: the elimination process for bilinear or linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--157 Moshe Sniedovich A machine executable generalized inner product and its applications . . . . . . 159--165 Omer E\ugecio\uglu and Çetin K. Koç and Josep Rif\`aI Coma Fast computation of continued fractions 167--169 H. De Meyer and G. Vanden Berghe and J. Vanthournout Modified backward differentiation methods of the Adams-type based on exponential interpolation . . . . . . . 171--179 M. S. Petkovi\'c and Lj. Cvetkovi\'c A hybrid method for a polynomial complex zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--186 Kuo-Liang Chung and Ferng-Ching Lin and Yeong-Nan Yeh A three-phase parallel algorithm for solving linear recurrences . . . . . . . 187--195 Norbert Mauser and Anton Arnold and Peter A. Markowich The self-consistent Bloch-equation in one dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--202
Sekar Ganesan and Leang S. Shieh and Mohamad M. Mehio Sequential design of linear quadratic state regulators with prescribed eigenvalues and specified relative stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 K. J. Bunch and R. W. Grow A technique to shift an eigenvalue of a complex matrix to accelerate convergence of the power and inverse power method 11--16 B. N. Mandal and P. K. Kundu A note on the transmission of oblique waves through small apertures . . . . . 17--22 George D. Tsiotras Exact analysis of the joint production quantity-quality of a two-station stable tandem manufacturing system with restricted capacity . . . . . . . . . . 23--31 M. M. Mohie El-Din Maximum likelihood weights of the location of the Burr distribution . . . 33--38 P. Glaister A non-uniform mesh scheme for compressible flow . . . . . . . . . . . 39--62 Daoliu Wang Semi-discrete Fourier spectral approximations of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems and conservation laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--75 R. J. Tait and K. Abdella and D. B. Duncan Approximate Riemann solvers and waves on a nonlinear elastic string . . . . . . . 77--89 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii T. V. Kostova and N. H. Chipev A model of the dynamics of intramolluscan trematode populations: Some problems concerning oscillatory behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--15 Thomas H. Barr Approximation for age-structured population models using projection methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--40 Frederick Bloom Long time existence of solutions for $ \partial^2 \partial T^2 u(x, t) + \partial \partial T \alpha (u(x, t)) = \partial^2 \partial X^2 \beta (u(x, t)) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--56 JoséE. Castillo An adaptive direct variational grid generation method . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64 LaDawn Haws Symmetric Green's functions for certain hyperbolic problems . . . . . . . . . . 65--78 C. Siva Ram Murthy Solving hyperbolic PDE's on hypercubes 79--82 Marilyn Santiago and David R. Kincaid Using cyclic reduction on a parallel computer to improve the performance of an underwater sound implicit finite difference model . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94 B. A. Kupershmidt Form-invariance upon relativisation of the Hamiltonian structures of fluids is not universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--99 G. Adomian A review of the decomposition method and some recent results for nonlinear equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--127 Kurt Kreith A self-adjoint problem for the wave equation in higher dimensions . . . . . 129--132 G. Adomian The Sine-Gordon, Klein--Gordon, and Korteweg--de Vries equations . . . . . . 133--136 Jeffrey S. Scroggs An iterative method for systems of nonlinear hyperbolic equations . . . . . 137--144
Elfim A. Galperin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii Efim A. Galperin Problem-method classification in optimization and control . . . . . . . . 1--6 V. K. Chichinadze Solution of nonlinear nonconvex optimization problems by $ \Psi $-transformation method . . . . . . . . 7--15 Quan Zheng Robust analysis and global optimization 17--24 Ramon E. Moore Global optimization to prescribed accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--39 H. Ratschek and J. Rokne Interval tools for global optimization 41--50 Stuart G. Mentzer LP-form inclusion functions for global optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--65 Harold P. Benson and Reiner Horst A branch and bound-outer approximation algorithm for concave minimization over a convex set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--76 Bahia Benchekroun and James E. Falk A nonconvex, piecewise linear optimization problem . . . . . . . . . . 77--85 Panos M. Pardalos Global optimization algorithms for linearly constrained indefinite quadratic problems . . . . . . . . . . . 87--97 S. S. Erenguc and H. P. Benson An algorithm for indefinite integer quadratic programming . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Panos M. Pardalos and Somesh Jha Graph separation techniques for quadratic zero-one programming . . . . . 107--113 Y. Yavin Optimal launch conditions: an optimal stochastic control problem . . . . . . . 115--126 Bruno Betr\`o and Fabio Schoen A stochastic technique for global optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--133 M. M. Kostreva and L. A. Kinard A differentiable homotopy approach for solving polynomial optimization problems and noncooperative games . . . . . . . . 135--143 Efim A. Galperin and Quan Zheng Integral global optimization method for nonlinear games . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159 G. R. Wood Multidimensional bisection applied to global optimisation . . . . . . . . . . 161--172 Mauro Piccioni A combined multistart-annealing algorithm for continuous global optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--179 Christopher J. Zappe and A. Victor Cabot The application of generalized Benders decomposition to certain nonconcave programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--190 Miroslav D. A\vsi\'c and Vera V. Kova\vcevi\'c-Vuj\vci\'c An implicit enumeration method for global optimization problems . . . . . . 191--201 Christophe Deissenberg Interactive search for a global optimum in macroeconometric policy-making . . . 203--213 Efim A. Galperin The integer cubic algorithm . . . . . . 215--224
D. Sculli and Y. W. Shum An approximate solution to the PERT problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 Shirley B. Pomeranz Computational methods for nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems . . . . . . 9--20 Ravi P. Agarwal and Patricia J. Y. Wong Optimal error bounds for the derivatives of two point Hermite interpolation . . . 21--35 Cho-Kuang Chen and Tsan-Hui Hsu Heat transfer of a thermomicropolar fluid past a porous stretching sheet . . 37--45 J. F. Andrus Formulas for modular integration of systems of ode's . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56 Phil Diamond Iterated maps on discretized meshes of the unit interval . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63 Gustaf Neumann Interpretational abstraction . . . . . . 65--78 Jenn-Ching Luo and Morton B. Friedman A study on decomposition methods . . . . 79--84 A. G. Ramm Finding conductivity from surface measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91 Anastasios A. Tsonis The effect of truncation and round-off on computer simulated chaotic trajectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
Anonymous Software survey section . . . . . . . . I--V P. Fjelstad Extending Pascal's triangle . . . . . . 1--4 P. Fjelstad Pascal's triangle on a torus and on a binary tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10 P. Fjelstad The binomial theorem and the extended Pascal's triangle . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17 R. B. Adeniyi and P. Onumanyi Error estimation in the numerical solution of ODE with the Tau method . . 19--27 Ralph E. Carlson and Thomas A. Foley The parameter $ R^2 $ in multiquadric interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--42 An Lu and E. L. Wachspress Solution of Lyapunov equations by alternating direction implicit iteration 43--58 R. P. Srivastav and Fenggang Zhang Solving Cauchy singular integral equations by using general quadrature-collocation nodes . . . . . . 59--71 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79
James M. Wolff and Sanford Fleeter Analysis of the viscous aerodynamics of a thin airfoil cascade by a locally analytic method . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 Janus R. Mika and Andrzej Palczewski Asymptotic analysis of singularly perturbed systems of ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . 13--32 Khaled A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar The number of convolutional codes of span one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--38 R. Stephen Berry Symmetry in atomic and molecular systems 39--52 William R. Thissell and Patrick L. Mills Some applications of computerized symbolic manipulation in the analysis of chemical engineering systems . . . . . . 53--78 Michael P. Barnett Summing $ P_n(\cos \theta) / p(n) $ for certain polynomials $ p(n) $ . . . . . . 79--86
E. S. Lee Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii S. Ueno and Alan P. Wang Invariant imbedding and searchlight problem in turbid slab . . . . . . . . . 1--6 S. K. Srinivasan and R. Vasudevan Particle multiplicity distribution a la invariant imbedding and natural scaling 7--7 G. Naadimuthu and E. S. Lee Invariant imbedding filter in the modeling of water resources . . . . . . 9--22 Seiichi Iwamoto Iterative integral versus dynamic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--39 Art Lew Reduction of dimensionality of an optimal decision table conversion algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49 Duan Li and Yacov Y. Haimes Extension of dynamic programming to nonseparable dynamic optimization problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56 Masami Kurano Functional characterization for average cost Markov decision processes with Doeblin's conditions . . . . . . . . . . 57--63 Toshio Odanaka Control chart and stochastic control processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--78 Takeo Ojika and Takayuki Hashimoto and Yoshiro Izumoto Nonlinear time optimal control of a rotating rigid body . . . . . . . . . . 79--84 David Jacobs and Semyon M. Meerkov Asymptotically reliable serial production lines with a quality control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90 Wanda Rosa-Hatko and Eldon Gunn Some models of queueing control with switchover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--110 Art Lew Fuzzy decision tables for expert systems 111--116 Augustine O. Esogbue Computational aspects and applications of a branch and bound algorithms for fuzzy multistage decision processes . . 117--127 Austin Melton and Sujeet Shenoi Fuzzy relations and fuzzy relational databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138 Antonino R\`epaci A nonlinear inverse heat transfer problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--143 Eugene D. Denman Projectors, solvents, interpolating polynomials and lambda matrices . . . . 145--151 G. Naadimuthu and K. W. Wang and E. S. Lee Air pollution modeling by quasilinearization . . . . . . . . . . . 153--164 Lai-Jiu Lin Duality theorems of vector-valued $n$-set functions . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i A. G. Ramm and Peiqing Li Numerical solution of some integral equations in distributions . . . . . . . 1--11 Chyi Hwang and Ming-Jeng Lu and Leang S. Shieh Improved FFT-based numerical inversion of Laplace transforms via fast Hartley transform algorithm . . . . . . . . . . 13--24 Leang S. Shieh and Jian L. Zhang and Norman P. Coleman Optimal digital redesign of continuous-time controllers . . . . . . 25--35 A. C. R. Newbery and Tylene S. Garrett Interpolation with minimized curvature 37--43 Do Y. Kwak and S. Son Prime sample scheme for almost sure convergence of a Galerkin approximation 45--48 R. Venkatesan and S. Al-Bassam New techniques for constructing $t$- ECd --- EDAUED and $t$- ECd --- EDs --- UED codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--66 Robert E. Kalaba and Firdaus E. Udwadia An adaptive learning approach to the identification of structural and mechanical systems . . . . . . . . . . . 67--75 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89
Benjamin F. Esham, Jr. and Elizabeth Greenwell Yanik Galerkin methods for a singularly perturbed hyperbolic problem with nonlocal nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . 1--22 H. S. Green and A. J. Bracken and L. Bass Harmonic functions satisfying a radiation boundary condition . . . . . . 23--38 Pradip K. Srimani and Bhabani P. Sinha and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya and Suranjan Ghosh Properties of a class of trivalent network graphs and optimal routing . . . 39--47 Jiann-Der Lee and Yuan-Chiuan You and Jau-Yien Lee and Chin-Hsing Chen and Chia-Nian Shyi A fast method for cylindrical object location determination . . . . . . . . . 49--57 S. K. Srinivasan and R. Vasudevan Particle multiplicity distribution a la invariant imbedding and natural scaling 59--71 Donald Greenspan The error in quasi-quantum mechanical calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79 Abraham A. Ungar Errata to ``A unified approach for solving quadratic, cubic and quartic equations by radicals'' . . . . . . . . 81--81 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
E. L. Wachspress Polynomial bases for algebraic elements 1--9 E. L. Wachspress $ C^1 $ rational finite elements . . . . 11--16 P. L. Powar and R. Rao A counterexample of the construction of $ C^1 $-rational finite element due to Wachspress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--22 H. P. Dikshit and A. Ojha Dimensions of spaces of Wachspress type $ C^1 $-rational finite elements . . . . 23--26 L. E. Garey and R. E. Shaw Algorithms for the solution of second order Volterra integro-differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34 Lyle Noakes Adapting functions to experimental measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44 P. Glaister A TVD finite difference scheme with non-uniform meshes and without upstream weighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--58 Fenggang Zhang A hyperbolic tangent quadrature rule for solving singular integral equations with Hadamard finite part integrals . . . . . 59--73 Ram P. Manohar and Tat Y. Ngai Automated allocation of mesh points for stiff two-point boundary value problems 75--79 H. G. Khajah and E. L. Ortiz Upper and lower error estimation for the Tau Method and related polynomial techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--92
A. G. Ramm Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii A. G. Ramm and O. L. Weaver $3$D inverse scattering . . . . . . . . 1--25 Michael I. Belishev and Yaroslav V. Kurylev Boundary control, wave field continuation and inverse problems for the wave equation . . . . . . . . . . . 27--52 Masaru Ikehata A special Green's function for the biharmonic operator and its application to an inverse boundary value problem . . 53--66 Ziqi Sun Uniqueness for formally determined inverse boundary value problems . . . . 67--80 David Gurarie Multiparameter averaging and inverse spectral problem for anharmonic oscillators in $ R^n $ . . . . . . . . . 81--92 Pavel I. Etingof Inverse problems of potential theory and flows in porous media with time-dependent free boundary . . . . . . 93--99 A. G. Ramm Inversion of limited-angle tomographic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--111 A. G. Ramm A problem of integral geometry . . . . . 113--117 F. R. Miller Characterizing principal curvature data as functions of the normal vectors and determining the surfaces . . . . . . . . 119--124 S. Gutman and L. W. White The estimation of $ L^\infty $ diffusion coefficients in the parabolic equations 125--136 Pierluigi Maponi and Luciano Misici and Francesco Zirilli An inverse problem for the three dimensional vector Helmholtz equation for a perfectly conducting obstacle . . 137--146 William W. Symes A differential semblance algorithm for the inverse problem of reflection seismology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--178
J. Bhasker and Tariq Samad The clique-partitioning problem . . . . 1--11 Yuang-Cheh Hsueh A unifying approach to the structures of the stable matching problems . . . . . . 13--27 Dimitrios S. Dendrinos Asymptotic stability and quasi-periodicity in form and evolution of model socio-spatial structures . . . 29--45 Theresa D. Kelly Particle modelling of an elastic arch in three dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--91 Gen-Huey Chen and Dyi-Rong Duh and Cheng-Chung Hsu An algorithm paradigm for incomplete hypercubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 A. G. Ramm and V. I. Fabrikant Justification of Fabrikant's method for solving mixed problems of potential theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--103
G. S. Guram and M. Anwar Kamal Three-dimensional micropolar flow near saddle and nodal points of attachment 1--9 Andrzej Marciniak and Donald Greenspan Arbitrary order, Hamiltonian conserving numerical solutions of Calogero and Toda systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--35 Paola Favati and Grazia Lotti Parallel algorithms for matrix polynomial division . . . . . . . . . . 37--42 M. Muraskin The determinant of $ g_{i j} $ in Aesthetic Field Theory . . . . . . . . . 43--53 Gisbert Stoyan and Robert Stoyan Colouring the discretization graphs arising in the multigrid method . . . . 55--62 Viatcheslav I. Sokolov The ``Natural'' hierarchy of symmetry elements based on the intrinsic property of dimensionality and the corresponding tree of the symmetry groups . . . . . . 63--64 K. J. Bunch and R. W. Grow A simple method to generate test matrices of known eigenvalue or singular value spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67 György Terdik Bilinear state space realization for polynomial stochastic systems . . . . . 69--83 V. Piterbarg and V. Taran Exact asymptotics for large deviation probabilities of normalized Brownian bridge with applications to empirical processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91 E. J. Dean and P. Gubernatis Pointwise control of Burgers' equation --- A numerical approach . . . . . . . . 93--100
Michael D. Vose Piecewise linear models of processor utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 M. L. Baart and R. J. Y. McLeod Continuous quadric patch approximation of curved surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20 Pawe\l J. Szab\lowski Minimization of quadratic functionals on cones in Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . . 21--34 P. Glaister A Riemann solver for compressible flow of a real gas in a Lagrangian frame . . 35--39 N. U. Ahmed Stability of limit measures induced by stochastic differential equations on Hilbert space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--48 Gilbert Choudury and Philip Korman Computation of solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems . . . . . . . . 49--55 G. Adomian and R. Rach and R. Meyers Numerical algorithms and decomposition 57--61 Çetin K. Koç An improved algorithm for mixed-radix conversion of residue numbers . . . . . 63--71 Max D. Gunzburger and Janet S. Peterson Predictor and steplength selection in continuation methods for the Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 73--81 Donald Greenspan Three-dimensional fluid microdrop interaction in the nucleation of raindrops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89 G. Adomian Solving frontier problems modelled by nonlinear partial differential equations 91--94 G. Adomian Errata to ``A review of the decomposition method and some recent results for nonlinear equations'': Computers Math. Applic., Vol. \bf 21, No. 5, pp. 101--127, 1991 . . . . . . . 95--95
A. K. Bisoi A Maple program to generate orthonormal polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5 M. Hosseini and Ali Abadi and E. L. Ortiz A Tau method based on non-uniform space-time elements for the numerical simulation of solitons . . . . . . . . . 7--19 Gordana Ugrin-Sparac Two simulation models of the birthday problem and certain consequences . . . . 21--25 G. Resta The average parallel complexity of Cholesky factorization . . . . . . . . . 27--33 Adelhard E. Köhler A fuzzy symmetry concept for forms with imperfect symmetries . . . . . . . . . . 35--50 Layne T. Watson and C.-Y. Wang Large deformations of rotating polygonal space structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59 Nasser Doual and James L. Howland and Rémi Vaillancourt Selective solutions to transcendental equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--76 Thiab R. Taha A numerical scheme for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . 77--84 Meng-Zhao Qin and Wen-Jie Zhu Canonical Runge--Kutta--Nyström (RKN) methods for second order ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . 85--95 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--101
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Jeffrey C. Lagarias Effects of misspecification of lag structure in certain two-variable distributed lag models . . . . . . . . . 3--23 Herbert E. Salzer Confluent Prony approximation . . . . . 25--31 Robert E. Marshak From symmetry to dynamics in modern particle physics . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43 K. Coolsaet and V. Fack Total exchange algorithms on `sandwich graphs' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48 John A. Winnie Computing structure: Sets, structures, and invariants in LISP . . . . . . . . . 49--63 Peter Shi and Meir Shillor and Xiu-Lin Zou Numerical solutions to one-dimensional problems of thermoelastic contact . . . 65--78 M. S. Petkovi\'c and Z. M. Marjanovi\'c A class of simultaneous methods for the zeros of analytic functions . . . . . . 79--87 J. H. Freilich and E. L. Ortiz Upper and lower error estimation for the Tau method: Some remarks on a problem of rational approximation . . . . . . . . . 89--97 Franca Calio' and Marco Frontini and Gradimir V. Milovanovi\'c Numerical differentiation of analytic functions using quadratures on the semicircle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Marcus J. Chambers Forecasting discrete stock and flow data generated by a second order continuous time system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--114 William J. Gilbert The complex dynamics of Newton's method for a double root . . . . . . . . . . . 115--119 V. del Olmo and R. Fuster Some iterative methods related to Frobenius norm minimization . . . . . . 121--126 Jen-Shiun Chiang and Mi Lu Floating-point numbers in residue number systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--140 Jen-Shiun Chiang and Mi Lu Floating-point numbers in residue number systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--140
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Y. Yavin Open-loop evasion strategies in a pursuit-evasion problem in a reduced state space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13 J. C. Lopez-Marcos An upwind scheme for a nonlinear hyperbolic integro-differential equation with integral boundary condition . . . . 15--28 Cheng-Gui Huang The explicit solutions of the Sturm--Liouville problem . . . . . . . . 29--37 Song Yuan Yan Declarative testing of logic databases 39--45 J. B. Nixon and B. J. Noye Explicit three-point three-level FDMS for the one-dimensional constant-coefficient advection-diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58 Lisheng Hou and Hassan Manouzi Solving the Navier--Stokes equations by Laplacians: an optimal control approach 59--67 Qisu Zou An observation on Gauss elimination . . 69--70 James E. Moore II and Moon Kim and Jong-Gook Seo and Ying Wu and Robert Kalaba Linear programming, recurrent associative memories, and feed-forward neural networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--90 Anonymous Retraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . i--ix Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 P. N. Tandon and P. Nirmala and M. Tewari and U. S. Rana Analysis of nutritional transport through a capillary: Normal and stenosed 3--13 Kwokming J. Cheng Symbolic finite element analysis using computer algebra: heat transfer in rectangular duct flow . . . . . . . . . 15--22 Jürgen Parisi Global symmetry aspects of a compartmentalized reaction-diffusion system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--31 P. N. Tandon and Amita Chaurasia and V. K. Jain and T. Gupta Application of magnetic fields to synovial joints . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--45 P. Glaister An isentropic flow algorithm with body fitted meshes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--53 R. J. Li and E. Stanley Lee An exponential membership function for fuzzy multiple objective linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60 Irvin Roy Hentzel and David Pokrass Jacobs A dynamic programming method for building free algebras . . . . . . . . . 61--66 Shu-Kun Lin Time symmetry and thermodynamics . . . . 67--76 E. G. Read and J. A. George and C. H. Bannister and R. J. Kaye Explanatory note to the Editors . . . . 77--77 M. Reza Ebrahimpour and John F. Dorsey and Stephen G. Demko An acceleration technique for the Newton solution of quadratic equations . . . . 79--87 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--92
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Ting-Wei Hou and S. R. Tsai and L. M. Tseng Adaptive and fault-tolerant routing algorithms for high performance $2$D torus interconnection network . . . . . 3--15 R. Rach and G. Adomian and R. E. Meyers A modified decomposition . . . . . . . . 17--23 M. S. El Naschie Peano dynamics as a model for ergodic and strange nonchaotic behaviour . . . . 25--33 Josep Rif\`aI Coma All $s$-sum sets of type $2$ or $3$ are triple-sum sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--43 S. B. Pomeranz A solitary wave application of an iterative method for nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems . . . . . . . . . . 45--49 G. Adomian and R. Rach A further consideration of partial solutions in the decomposition method 51--64 Jen-Yu Liu and Hong-Sen Yan Geometry design of trapezoidal threaded variable pitch lead screws . . . . . . . 65--73 S. González-Pinto and L. Casasús and P. González-Vera Two uniform schemes for the singularly perturbed Riccati equation . . . . . . . 75--85 Kuo-Liang Chung Solving hyperbolic PDE's on hypercubes 87--88 George Tsiotras and Charles S. Tapiero WIP and CSP-1 quality control in a tandem queueing production system . . . 89--101 Marc Rouff The computation of $ C^k $ spline functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos and J. P. Fourie The performance of a projectile which uses a bang-bang type guidance law:Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Fritz Lehmann Semantic networks . . . . . . . . . . . 1--50 Steven L. Lytinen Conceptual dependency and its descendants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--73 John F. Sowa Conceptual graphs as a universal knowledge representation . . . . . . . . 75--93 Nick Cercone and Randy Goebel and John De Haan and Stephanie Schaeffer The ECO family . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--131 William A. Woods and James G. Schmolze The KL--ONE family . . . . . . . . . . . 133--177 Richmond H. Thomason NETL and subsequent path-based inheritance theories . . . . . . . . . . 179--204 Yorick Wilks and Dann Fass The preference semantics family . . . . 205--221 John Mylopoulos The PSN tribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--241 Stuart C. Shapiro and William J. Rapaport The SNePS family . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--275 James A. Hendler Massively-parallel marker-passing in semantic networks . . . . . . . . . . . 277--291 Lokendra Shastri Structured connectionist models of semantic networks . . . . . . . . . . . 293--328 Chris Brink and Renate A. Schmidt Subsumption computed algebraically . . . 329--342 Hafedh Mili and Roy Rada A model of hierarchies based on graph homomorphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--361 Gordon McCalla and Jim Greer and Bryce Barrie and Paul Pospisil Granularity hierarchies . . . . . . . . 363--375
Judith A. Markowitz and J. Terry Nutter and Martha W. Evens Beyond is-a and part-whole: More semantic network links . . . . . . . . . 377--390 Brian M. Slator Sense and preference . . . . . . . . . . 391--402 Steven L. Lytinen A unification-based, integrated natural language processing system . . . . . . . 403--418 Rob Rucker and Tario A. Aldowaisan A design approach for constructing engineering scenario maps . . . . . . . 419--440 Roger T. Hartley A uniform representation for time and space and their mutual constraints . . . 441--457 David A. Randell and Anthony G. Cohn Exploiting lattices in a theory of space and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--476 Anthony G. Cohn Completing sort hierarchies . . . . . . 477--491 Rudolf Wille Concept lattices and conceptual knowledge systems . . . . . . . . . . . 493--515 Antti Hautamäki A conceptual space approach to semantic networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517--525 Lin Padgham Defeasible inheritance: a lattice based approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527--541 Enrico Franconi and Bernardo Magnini and Oliviero Stock Prototypes in a hybrid language with primitive descriptions . . . . . . . . . 543--555 Hartmut Ehrig and Annegret Habel and Hans-Jörg Kreowski Introduction to graph grammars with applications to semantic networks . . . 557--572 Robert Levinson Pattern associativity and the retrieval of semantic networks . . . . . . . . . . 573--600 Harold Boley Declarative operations on nets . . . . . 601--637 Don D. Roberts The existential graphs . . . . . . . . . 639--663 Robert W. Burch Valental aspects of Peircean algebraic logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665--677 Robert Marty Foliated semantic networks: Concepts, facts, qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . 679--696 Gian Piero Zarri The ``descriptive'' component of a hybrid knowledge representation language 697--718 Robert Nado and Richard Fikes Saying more with frames: Slots as classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719--731 Arthur C. Graesser and Sallie E. Gordon and Lawrence E. Brainerd QUEST: a model of question answering . . 733--745 Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747--758
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Lucy Garnett and Abdullah U. Tansel Equivalence of the relational algebra and calculus for nested relations . . . 3--25 Sheng-An Yang and Cha'o-Kuang Chen Magnetohydrodynamic effects upon momentum transfer on a continuously moving flat plane . . . . . . . . . . . 27--33 M. A. El-Affendi Estimating computer performance metrics when the service and interarrival times are of the truncated normal type . . . . 35--40 Yaakov Yavin A search for a randomly moving object: a numerical study . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49 H. M. Srivastava and R. K. Saxena and Z. Hussain Some generating functions for the Jacobi polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos An optimal selection policy for a flexible manufacturing cell feeding several production lines . . . . . . . . 57--63 L. Lustman and B. Neta and W. Gragg Solution of ordinary differential initial value problems on an Intel Hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--72 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos Optimal selection and control strategies for a flexible manufacturing and assembly system . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--78 G. Adomian and R. Rach Nonlinear transformation of series-part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83 Mo-Hong Chou Hopf bifurcation in a reaction-diffusion system governed by the fitz-hugh-nagumo equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--97 M. B. Boisen, Jr. and G. V. Gibbs and Z. G. Zhang An application of graph theory to the estimation of bond numbers in crystals 99--102
Anonymous Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Diego A. Murio and Doris Hinestroza G. and Carlos E. Mejía New stable numerical inversion of Abel's integral equation . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 C. Chiccoli and S. Lorenzutta and G. Maino Concerning some integrals of the generalized exponential-integral function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21 Matthias Eck and Dieter Lasser B-spline-Bézier representation of geometric spline curves: Quartics and quintics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--39 O. Rojo and R. Soto New conditions for the additive inverse eigenvalue problem for matrices . . . . 41--46 J. A. Snyman and C. Frangos and Y. Yavin Penalty function solutions to optimal control problems with general constraints via a dynamic optimisation method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--55 J. Sztrik Modelling of a single bus multiprocessor system operating in Markovian environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--65 Yeih J. Wang and Leang S. Shieh and John W. Sunkel Robust stabilization, robust performance, and disturbance attenuation for uncertain linear systems . . . . . . 67--80 F. Mazzia and D. Trigiante Numerical methods for second order singular perturbation problems . . . . . 81--89 James L. Howland and Rémi Vaillancourt Rational transformation from Schur to Jordan form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--101
Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . i--viii Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Yue-Kuen Kwok Stability analysis of six-point finite difference schemes for the constant coefficient convective-diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 Çetin K. Koç A parallel algorithm for exact solution of linear equations via congruence technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24 J. P. Pascal Similarity solutions for axisymmetric plane radial power law fluid flows through a porous medium . . . . . . . . 25--41 Jon A. Sjogren Closed-form solution of decomposable stochastic models . . . . . . . . . . . 43--67 G. Vanden Berghe and H. De Meyer and M. Van Daele A parallel approach to the modified Numerov-like eigenvalue determination for Sturm--Liouville problems . . . . . 69--74 Relja Vulanovi\'c and Ping Lin Numerical solution of quasilinear attractive turning point problems . . . 75--82 Zbigniew Michalewicz and Cezary Z. Janikow and Jacek B. Krawczyk A modified genetic algorithm for optimal control problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--94 Jen-Chih Yao Nonlinear inequalities in Banach spaces 95--98 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--viii Genji Yamazaki and Karl Sigman and Masakiyo Miyazawa Moments in infinite channel queues . . . 1--6 Hiroshi Toyoizumi Evaluating mean sojourn time estimates for the M/M/1 queue . . . . . . . . . . 7--15 Masaaki Kijima The transient solution to a class of Markovian queues . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24 Tsuyoshi Katayama Performance analysis and optimization of a cyclic-service tandem queueing system with multi-class customers . . . . . . . 25--33 Toshikazu Kimura Duality between the M/G/s/s and GI/M/1/s/s queues . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40 Shoichi Nishimura and Yong Jiang Queueing models of concurrency control in database with Poisson arrivals . . . 41--50 Kazumi Yasui and Toshio Nakagawa and Shin-Ichi Koike Reliability consideration on error control policies for a data communication system . . . . . . . . . . 51--55 Hiroaki Sandoh and Hajime Kawai and Toshihide Ibaraki An optimal backup policy for a hard computer disk depending on age under availability criterion . . . . . . . . . 57--62 S. Fukumoto and N. Kaio and S. Osaki A study of checkpoint generations for a database recovery mechanism . . . . . . 63--70 Mitsuhiro Kimura and Shigeru Yamada and Shunji Osaki Software reliability assessment for an exponential-S-shaped reliability growth phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78 Shigeru Yamada and Hiroshi Ohtera and Mitsuru Ohba Testing-domain dependent software reliability models . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86 Kodo Ito and Toshio Nakagawa Optimal inspection policies for a system in storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90 Yoshiyuki Segawa and Masamitsu Ohnishi and Toshihide Ibaraki Optimal minimal-repair and replacement problem with age dependent cost structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--101 Hajime Kawai and Junji Koyanagi An optimal maintenance policy of a discrete time Markovian deterioration system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--108 K. Nakashima and H. Matznaga and Y. Ueda and K. Yamato Optimal design of redundant systems for improving fail-safe characteristics . . 109--117 Yoshio Sugasawa and Qun Jin and Koichiro Seya Extended stochastic Petri Net models for systems with parallel and cooperative motions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--126 Tadashi Dohi and Shunji Osaki Optimal trading of stock options under alternative strategy . . . . . . . . . . 127--134 H. Tanaka and T. Dohi and H. Fujiwara and S. Osaki and N. Kaio Construction of a decision-support system for a combination of options . . 135--140 Katsushige Sawaki Optimal exercise policies for call options and their valuation . . . . . . 141--146 Masamitsu Ohnishi Policy iteration and Newton--Raphson methods for Markov decision processes under average cost criterion . . . . . . 147--155 Katsunori Ano A secretary problem with restricted offering chances and random number of applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--162
Anonymous Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Çetin K. Koç and Ching-Yu Hung Adaptive $m$-ary segmentation and canonical recoding algorithms for multiplication of large binary numbers 3--12 R. B. King and E. R. Canfield Icosahedral symmetry and the quintic equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--28 James N. Hanson The computer generated symbolic approximations to systems of nonlinear ODE's by matrix annihilation and the Newton--Kantorovich method . . . . . . . 29--35 V. S. Varadarajan Symmetry in mathematics . . . . . . . . 37--44 Donald Greenspan A particle model of ground state $ H_2 $ 45--48 Yanchun Zhang and Maria E. Orlowska The effect of unary inclusion dependencies on relational database design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59 Victor Pan Parametrization of Newton's iteration for computations with structured matrices and applications . . . . . . . 61--75 P. Glaister An efficient Riemann solver for unsteady flows with non-ideal gases . . . . . . . 77--93 Ervin Y. Rodin and S. Massoud Amin Maneuver prediction in air combat via artificial neural networks . . . . . . . 95--112 H. E. Salzer Erratum to ``Confluent Prony approximation'': Computers Math. Applic., Vol. \bf 22, No. 10, pp. 25--31, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 M. G. El Sheikh The integral equation formulation of mixed finite time-dependent elastic problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14 V. Ruggiero and E. Galligani A Parallel Algorithm for Solving Block Tridiagonal Linear Systems . . . . . . . 15--21 Yi Pan and Henry Y. H. Chuang Singular value decomposition on SIMD hypercube and shuffle-exchange computers 23--32 M. K. El-Daou and S. Namasivayam and E. L. Ortiz Differential equations with piecewise approximate coefficients: Discrete and continuous estimation for initial and boundary value problems . . . . . . . . 33--47 P. Glaister A finite difference scheme for steady, supersonic, two-dimensional, compressible flow of real gases . . . . 49--59 Ivan Stojmenovic A simple systolic algorithm for generating combinations in lexicographic order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64 Diego A. Murio Numerical identification of interface source functions in heat transfer problems under nonlinear boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76 Ömer E\ugecio\uglu and Çetin Kaya Koç Parallel Prefix Computation with Few Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--84 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos and J. P. Fourie The performance of a projectile which uses a bang-bang type guidance law: Part 2 --- a semirigid body model . . . . . . 85--92 S. Kim and R. P. Tewarson A quasi-Newton method for solving nonlinear algebraic equations . . . . . 93--97 Andrzej Korzeniowski Quantum mechanical simulation of the hydrogen molecule . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102 S. Al-Bassam and R. Venkatesan and B. Bose Codes for detecting and correcting propagation errors . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
Gary A. Sod A numerical model of a thermal boundary layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 G. Adomian and R. Rach Generalization of Adomian polynomials to functions of several variables . . . . . 11--24 Thomas A. Edwards Fluid/chemistry modeling for hypersonic flight analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36 Wei Cai and David Gottlieb and Ami Harten Cell averaging Chebyshev methods for hyperbolic problems . . . . . . . . . . 37--49 C. Wayne Mastin Linear variational methods and adaptive grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56 Peter R. Eiseman Control point grid generation . . . . . 57--67 Jamshid Samareh-Abolhassani and Robert E. Smith A practical approach to algebraic grid adaption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--81 Jung-Sing Jwo and S. Lakshmivarahan and Sudarshan K. Dhall and John M. Lewis Comparison of performance of three parallel versions of the block cyclic reduction algorithm for solving linear elliptic partial differential equations 83--101 Timothy Baker Mesh generation for the computation of flowfields over complex aerodynamic shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--127 N. P. Weatherill Delaunay triangulation in computational fluid dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--150 Robert S. Bernard A MacCormack scheme for incompressible flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--168 E. J. Kansa A strictly conservative spatial approximation scheme for the governing engineering and physics equations over irregular regions and inhomogeneously scattered nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--190 Bharat K. Soni Grid generation for internal flow configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--201
Anonymous Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 J. C. Misra and G. C. Bera and Subhas C. Misra and S. Samanta Remodelling of diaphysial surfaces of a long bone induced due to force-fitting of a medullary pin: an analytical study 3--15 Victor Pan and Robert Schreiber A Fast, Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Toeplitz Solver . . . . . . . . 17--24 W. P. Noronha and E. L. Wachspress and A. J. Baker Consistent sparse factorization . . . . 25--44 Diego A. Murio Solution of inverse heat conduction problems with phase changes by the mollification method . . . . . . . . . . 45--57 Stephan Olariu The morphology of convex polygons . . . 59--68 P. Glaister Prediction of supercritical flow in open channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75 Ye-Sho Chen and Pete Chong Mathematical modeling of empirical laws in computer applications: a case study 77--87 E. S. Lee and Qing Zhu An interval Dempster--Shafer approach 89--95 S. G. From and H. A. Farhat Confidence intervals for expected coverage from a beta testability model 97--107 Ryszard Nowicki and Roman Slowi\'nski and Jerzy Stefanowski Rough sets analysis of diagnostic capacity of vibroacoustic symptoms . . . 109--123 Wilfred Kaplan and Frederick B. Sleator Procedures for multiple integration . . 125--126 L. Rández Improving the efficiency of the multiple shooting technique . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132 JoséE. Castillo and Greg McDermott and Marc McEachern and John Richardson A comparative analysis of numerical techniques applied to a model of the otolith membrane . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
Stefan Mittnik Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix Wolfgang Schneider Systems of seemingly unrelated regression equations with time varying coefficients --- an interplay of Kalman filtering, scoring, EM- and MINQUE-method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 Phillip A. Braun State dependent models of stock returns 17--29 S. Mittnik Forecasting international growth rates with leading indicators: a system-theoretic approach . . . . . . . 31--41 Giancarlo Gandolfo Sensitivity analysis in continuous time econometric models . . . . . . . . . . . 43--55 Pier Carlo Padoan Nonlinear simulation analysis in continuous time econometric models . . . 57--65 Panagiotis A. Papakyriazis Optimal estimation policies of stochastic linear systems with time-varying parameters . . . . . . . . 67--75 L. Guillermo and M. Gómez Intertemporal issues associated with the control of macro-economic systems . . . 77--98 Emil Panek Optimal trajectories in a multisectoral model of economic growth . . . . . . . . 99--109 Jacek B. Krawczyk Properties of repetitive control of partially observed processes . . . . . . 111--124 Luigi Ermini Some unresolved issues in the application of control theory to economic policy-making . . . . . . . . . 125--136 Djordjija B. Petkovski A knowledge-based system for robustness analysis of large-scale economic systems 137--148 Cuong Le Van Lagging and unlagging theorems: a quasi-equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . 149--156 Alain Nairay Dynamic portfolio choice under asset price lognormality . . . . . . . . . . . 157--166 Götz Uebe The model of Lang- National income accounts in 1807 . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--179 Shin-Ichi Kamiyama and Yasuo Murata The discrete-time model of Bagchi's regional investment allocation problem 181--194 Martin Schäfer Resource extraction and production of a substitute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--207 R. Amir and A. Hadim Some structured dynamic programs arising in economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--218 S. T. Rachev and B. Dimitrov and Z. Khalil A probabilistic approach to optimal quality usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--227 George Anastassiou and Svetlozar T. Rachev Moment problems and their applications to the stability of queueing models . . 229--246 Jeffrey A. Mills Making inflexible investment decisions with incomplete information . . . . . . 247--258 Jati K. Sengupta A fuzzy systems approach in data envelopment analysis . . . . . . . . . . 259--266 E. T. Jaynes Commentary on two articles by C. A. Los 267--273 Arnold Zellner Brief comment on C. A. Los' papers . . . 275--275 Cornelis A. Los Reply to E. T. Jaynes' and A. Zellner's comments on my two articles . . . . . . 277--288 Peter A. Zadrozny Errata to ``Analytic derivatives for estimation of linear dynamic models'': Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. \bf 18, No. 6/7, pp. 539--553, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 B. Mukhopadhyay and R. K. Bera Effect of temperature on the edge crack in orthotropic elastic half-plane . . . 3--10 A. Narayanan A note on parameter estimation in the multivariate beta distribution . . . . . 11--17 J. C. Misra and M. K. Patra and B. K. Sahu Unsteady flow of blood through narrow blood vessels- a mathematical analysis 19--31 Dganit Amitai and Amir Averbuch and Samuel Itzikowitz and Moshe Israeli Parallel adaptive and time-stabilizing schemes for constant-coefficient parabolic PDE's . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--53 M. Van Daele and G. Vanden Berghe and H. De Meyer Five-diagonal finite difference methods based on mixed-type interpolation for a certain fourth-order two-point boundary-value problem . . . . . . . . . 55--76 P. Glaister Similarity solutions for multi-component flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88 Bernhard Beckermann and Jet Wimp Some dynamically trivial mappings with applications to the improvement of simple iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97 P. Favati and G. Lotti and F. Romani Asymptotic expansion of error in interpolatory quadrature . . . . . . . . 99--104 John Carroll Sufficient conditions for uniformly second-order convergent schemes for stiff initial-value problems . . . . . . 105--116 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--125
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Eliza Kuttner and William Havens and Nick Cercone Processing natural language with schema constraint networks . . . . . . . . . . 3--10 Donald Greenspan Studies in rapid kinetic reactions by quasi-quantum mechanical, conservative methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--15 Z. W. Trzaska The algorithm for computing nonmonic second order multivariable systems . . . 17--27 Tsu-Fen Chen Semidiscrete least squares methods for linear convection--diffusion problem . . 29--44 P. Glaister Real gas flows in a duct . . . . . . . . 45--59 G. Adomian and R. Rach Noise terms in decomposition solution series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--64 Li-Xing Zhu A note on the consistent estimator of nonparametric regression constructed by splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--70 Horng-Twu Liaw and Chin-Laung Lei An efficient hierarchy scheme for determining relationships in information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78 Gary T. Leavens and Mike Vermeulen $ 3 x + 1 $ search programs . . . . . . 79--99 P. Góra and A. Boyarsky Modelling and simulating higher dimensional chaotic data . . . . . . . . 101--105
Edward J. Kansa Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii--vii Anonymous Biographical sketch of Rolland L. Hardy ix--x Rolland L. Hardy Comments on the discovery and evolution of the multiquadric method . . . . . . . xi--xii B. J. C. Baxter The asymptotic cardinal function of the multiquadratic $ \varphi (r) = (r^2 + c^2)^{12} $ as $ c \to \infty $ . . . . 1--6 R. K. Beatson and G. N. Newsam Fast evaluation of radial basis functions: $I$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--19 Martin D. Buhmann and Charles A. Micchelli Multiquadric interpolation improved . . 21--25 R. E. Carlson and T. A. Foley Interpolation of track data with radial basis methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--34 C. K. Chui and J. D. Ward and K. Jetter Cardinal interpolation with differences of tempered functions . . . . . . . . . 35--48 T. A. Foley The map and blend scattered data interpolant on a sphere . . . . . . . . 49--60 Federico Girosi Some extensions of radial basis functions and their applications in artificial intelligence . . . . . . . . 61--80 Rolland L. Hardy A contribution of the multiquadric method: Interpolation of potential inside the earth . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--97 E. J. Kansa and R. E. Carlson Improved accuracy of multiquadric interpolation using variable shape parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--120 W. R. Madych Miscellaneous error bounds for multiquadric and related interpolators 121--138 Donald E. Myers Kriging, cokriging, radial basis functions and the role of positive definiteness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148 Christophe Rabut An introduction to Schoenberg's approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--175 K. Salkauskas Moving least squares interpolation with thin-plate splines and radial basis functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185 Houston C. Saunderson Multiquadric interpolation of fluid speeds in a natural river channel . . . 187--193 Xingping Sun Cardinal and scattered-cardinal interpolation by functions having non-compact support . . . . . . . . . . 195--200 Yuan Xu and E. W. Cheney Interpolation by periodic radial functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--215
Hui-Chin Tang Simulated division with approximate factoring for the multiple recursive generator with both unrestricted multiplier and non-Mersenne prime modulus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173--1181
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--i Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Yosef S. Sherif and Roger G. Dear The development and testing of a new composite random number generator . . . 3--16 Adelhard E. Köhler A second approach to fuzzy symmetries: Fuzzy symmetry requirements . . . . . . 17--34 Meng-Zhao Qin and Wen-Jei Zhu A note on stability of a three-stage difference scheme for ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . 35--44 V. Moll Polygonal approximation to the flow on the critical surface for the bistable equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51 H. Wang and R. P. Tewarson A quasi-Gauss--Newton method for solving non-linear algebraic equations . . . . . 53--63 H. De Meyer and C. Niyokindi and G. Vanden Berghe The implementation of parallel Gram--Schmidt orthogonalisation algorithms on a ring of transputers . . 65--72 Jen-Chih Yao Abstract variational inequality problems and a basic theorem of complementarity 73--79 E. Asarin and Phil Diamond and I. Fomenko and A. Pokrovskii Chaotic phenomena in desynhcronized systems and stability analysis . . . . . 81--87 S. Namasivayam and E. L. Ortiz Error analysis of the Tau Method: dependence of the approximation error on the choice of perturbation term . . . . 89--104 Joshua Y. Choo and David H. Schultz Stable high order methods for differential equations with small coefficients for the second order terms 105--123
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 J. F. Andrus Stability of a multi-rate method for numerical integration of ODE's . . . . . 3--14 John H. Reif Efficient VLSI fault simulation . . . . 15--32 D. H. H. Yoon The categorical framework of object-oriented concurrent systems . . . 33--38 A. Marquina and V. Martínez Shooting methods for $1$D steady-state free boundary problems . . . . . . . . . 39--46 Hidekiyo Itakura A solution to multiple linear regression problems with ordered attributes . . . . 47--57 Aditi Chattopadhyay and Thomas R. McCarthy A multidisciplinary optimization approach for vibration reduction in helicopter rotor blades . . . . . . . . 59--72 Jenn-Ching Luo An incomplete inverse as a preconditioner for the conjugate gradient method . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79 Marios Mavronicolas Efficiency of semi-synchronous versus asynchronous systems: Atomic shared memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--91 Marcus J. Chambers A note on forecasting in co-integrated systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--99 Mark Ainsworth and J. Tinsley Oden A posteriori error estimators for second order elliptic systems:Part 1. Theoretical foundations and a posteriori error analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--113 T. F. Filippova A note on the evolution property of the assembly of viable solutions to a differential inclusion . . . . . . . . . 115--121
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Janusz R. Mika and Jan M. Kozakiewicz First-order asymptotic expansion method for singularly perturbed systems of second-order ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 D. Bouchaffra Theory and algorithms for analysing the consistent region in probabilistic logic 13--25 J. P. Fourie and Y. Yavin The guidance accuracy of a projectile using a wind stabilized seeker . . . . . 27--36 L. G. Reyna and J. R. Sobehart Dynamics of two-level ions in a laser beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--42 Been-Chian Chien and Rong-Jaye Chen and Wei-Pang Yang Analysis of the multigroup method for manipulating multiple stacks . . . . . . 43--57 Miodrag S. Petkovi\'c and Carsten Carstensen Some improved inclusion methods for polynomial roots with Weierstrass' corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67 V. Pan Binary segmentation for matrix and vector operations . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71 M. K. El-Daou and E. L. 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Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 F. A. Mahmoud and M. A. Saleem Regularization method for solving radon integral equations . . . . . . . . . . . 3--13 O. Rand Limit cycles and stability of highly nonlinear periodic systems by harmonic variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--25 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos and J. P. Fourie The performance of a projectile which uses a bang-bang type guidance law. Part 3 --- the point-mass model revisited . . 27--37 Tzong-Chen Wu and Yi-Shiung Yeh A conference key distribution system based on cross-product . . . . . . . . . 39--46 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos The performance of some manufacturing queueing networks when some of the machines are in the failure mode . . . . 47--54 Diego A. Murio and Doris Hinestroza The space marching solution of the inverse heat conduction problem and the identification of the initial temperature distribution . . . . . . . . 55--63 P. Glaister Second order accurate upwind difference schemes for scalar conservation laws with source terms . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73 Zhenyue Zhang A shifted method for solving symmetric eigenvalue problems . . . . . . . . . . 75--86 Qun Lin and J. G. Rokne A family of centered forms for rational functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--93 Jenn-Ching Luo A new class of decomposition for inverting asymmetric and indefinite matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--104 B. Almasi and J. Sztrik A queueing model for a non-homogeneous terminal system subject to BR992 . . . . 105--111 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--118
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 M. G. El Sheikh The finite mixed Sturm--Liouville problems of the Dirichlet--Newton type 3--10 Nguyen Thanh Long and Alain Pham Ngoc Dinh Periodic solution of a nonlinear parabolic equation involving Bessel's operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18 Luc Devroye Records, the maximal layer, and uniform distributions in monotone sets . . . . . 19--31 J. Parisi and R. Stoop A possible scheme for classifying phase transitions in the generalized entropy spectrum of a nonhyperbolic system . . . 33--41 J. P. Milaszewicz and S. Abdel Masih Elimination and fixed point iterations 43--53 N. M. Temme Asymptotic and numerical aspects of the noncentral chi-square distribution . . . 55--63 Frank S. C. Tseng and Wei-Pang Yang and Arbee L. P. Chen Finding a complete matching with the maximum product on weighted bipartite graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--71 Nader G. Zamani and Weiwei Sun Enriched collocation finite element method, a model problem . . . . . . . . 73--81 Jenn-Ching Luo A sparsity for decomposing a symmetric matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--90 S. Arunkumar and T. Chockalingam Genetic search algorithms and their randomized operators . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 Doris Hinestroza and Diego A. Murio Recovery of the transient heat transfer coefficient in the nonlinear boundary value problem for the heat equation . . 101--111 Jenn-Ching Luo Extended concept of stair-shape sparsity for the inverse of an asymmetric matrix 113--122
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Aubrey McIntosh and Jennifer Brodbelt The natural representation of real numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--14 C. N. Zhang An improved binary algorithm for RSA . . 15--24 Hidehiko Inoue and Yukio Shibata and Haruo Miyazaki Generation of interpolation curves with the least energy using dynamic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--34 Fabio Di Benedetto and Giuseppe Fiorentino and Stefano Serra C.G. preconditioning for Toeplitz matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45 Jose R. González De Mendívil and Jose R. Garitagoitia A model for deadlock detection based on automata and languages theory . . . . . 47--55 David White and Alan P. Wang An algebraic characterization of fixed modes in a decentralized control (a simplified existence proof) . . . . . . 57--59 Wen-Jie Zhu and Meng-Zhao Qin Order conditions of two kinds of canonical difference schemes . . . . . . 61--74 Donald Greenspan Electron attraction and Newtonian methodology for approximating quantum mechanical phenomena . . . . . . . . . . 75--83 Phil Diamond and Peter Kloeden Spatial discretization of mappings . . . 85--94 T. E. Simos A Runge--Kutta Fehlberg method with phase-lag of order infinity for initial-value problems with oscillating solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--101 Paul Johnstone and Frederick E. Petry Rational number approximation in higher radix floating point systems . . . . . . 103--108 H. T. Liaw and S. J. Wang and C. L. Lei A dynamic cryptographic key assignment scheme in a tree structure . . . . . . . 109--114
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Miroslav Kolár and Seamus F. O'Shea Fast, portable, and reliable algorithm for the calculation of Halton numbers 3--13 Peter J. Looges and Stephan Olariu Optimal greedy algorithms for indifference graphs . . . . . . . . . . 15--25 Sung-Ming Yen and Chi-Sung Laih The design of dynamic access control scheme with user authentication . . . . 27--32 M. K. El-Daou and E. L. Ortiz Error analysis of the Tau Method: Dependence of the error on the degree and on the length of the interval of approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--45 Barun Kumar Datta The approximate evaluation of certain integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49 E. L. Allgower and C.-S. Chien and W.-C. Lee Bifurcations of corank greater than two 51--64 E. L. Allgower and C.-S. Chien Continuation-minimization methods for stability problems . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79 M. Tadi Finite elements for modeling and control of a Mindlin plate . . . . . . . . . . . 81--99 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--109
Anonymous Speed for publication --- an editorial 1--2 Ravi P. Agarwal and Bikkar S. Lalli Discrete polynomial interpolation, Green's functions, maximum principles, error bounds and boundary value problems 3--39 P. Glaister Cylindrically symmetric flows in a Lagrangian frame . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--45 Chou Mo-Hong A modified cell-to-cell mapping method for nonlinear systems . . . . . . . . . 47--57 Doris Hinestroza and Diego A. Murio Identification of transmissivity coefficients by mollification techniques. Part I: One-dimensional elliptic and parabolic problems . . . . 59--79 Zhangxin Chen Projection finite element methods for semiconductor device equations . . . . . 81--88 Yi-Fa Tang Non-conservativity of traditional schemes for Liouville and contact systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94 Min Ho Lee The reduction of solutions of some integrable partial differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100 Hai-Bin Shu A new approach to generating functions for contact systems . . . . . . . . . . 101--106 S. R. Grace and B. S. Lalli Oscillation theorems for second order nonlinear functional differential equations with damping . . . . . . . . . 107--113 Anonymous Software reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--115 Anonymous Expert Choice version 8.0 . . . . . . . 117--117
Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 Victor Pan and John Reif Generalized compact multi-grid . . . . . 3--5 Chin-Rong Jou and Jen-Chih Yao Algorithm for generalized multivalued variational inequalities in Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16 Don B. Panton Distribution function values for logstable distributions . . . . . . . . 17--24 Victor Pan and Akimou Sadikou and Elliott Landowne and Olen Tiga A new approach to fast polynomial interpolation and multipoint evaluation 25--30 Igor P. Boglaev and Vadim V. Sirotkin The solution of singularity perturbed huge problems via domain decomposition 31--42 Devendra S. Negi and E. Stanley Lee Possibility programming by the comparison of fuzzy numbers . . . . . . 43--50 J. L. Cruz Soto and M. C. Calzada Canalejo and M. Marín Beltrán and E. Fernández-Cara A parallel algorithm for solving the incompressible Navier--Stokes problems 51--58 Alan P. Wang An inverse problem of reflection . . . . 59--65 Adelhard E. Köhler Isosymmetric manifolds in form spaces and the normal deformations of polygonal forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--89 Kuo-Liang Chung and Wen-Ming Yan Solving the symmetric tridiagonal eigenvalue problem on hypercubes . . . . 91--96 Iain Fogg and Maria Orlowska Valid unbiased fragmentation for distributed database design . . . . . . 97--106
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--x Afonso G. Ferreira and Janez Zerovnik Bounding the probability of success of stochastic methods for global optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 Renjin Tu and Quan Zheng Integral global optimization method in statistical applications . . . . . . . . 9--17 P. E. M. Borm and M. J. M. Jansen and J. A. M. Potters and S. H. Tijs Pareto equilibria for bimatrix games . . 19--25 Michael M. Kostreva Combinatorial optimization in Nash games 27--34 N. Dubois and D. de Werra Epcot: an efficient procedure for coloring optimally with Tabu Search . . 35--45 André Ferrari and Efim A. Galperin Numerical experiments with one-dimensional adaptive cubic algorithm 47--56 R. E. Moore The resolution of close minima . . . . . 57--58 E. R. Hansen and G. W. Walster Bounds for Lagrange multipliers and optimal points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--69 E. A. Galperin The alpha algorithm and the application of the cubic algorithm in case of unknown Lipschitz constant . . . . . . . 71--78 Quan Zheng Discontinuity and measurability of robust functions in the integral global minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 R. T. Yanushevsky Lyapunov's functionals and related optimal problems for differential-difference systems . . . . 89--101 Efim A. Galperin and Quan Zheng Solution and control of PDE via global optimization methods . . . . . . . . . . 103--118 Efim A. Galperin and Zhongxiong Pan and Quan Zheng Application of global optimization to implicit solution of partial differential equations . . . . . . . . . 119--124 E. R. Hansen and G. W. Walster Nonlinear equations and optimization . . 125--145 E. A. Galperin The fast cubic algorithm . . . . . . . . 147--160 Christophe Deissenberg The global failure of local preference optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--172 E. A. Galperin Validity of feedback controls depending on higher order derivatives . . . . . . 173--185 Ramon E. Moore Erratum to: ``Global optimization to prescribed accuracy'' [Comput. Math. Appl. \bf 21 (1991), no. 6--7, 25--39; MR1096131 (91m:90159)] . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . i--xii Ervin Y. Rodin Speed of publication --- an editorial 1--2 M. S. Yang Convergence properties of the generalized fuzzy $c$-means clustering algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 A. J. Meir The equations of stationary, incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with mixed boundary conditions . . . . . . . 13--29 Wen-Jie Zhu and Meng-Zhao Qin Constructing higher order schemes by formal power series . . . . . . . . . . 31--38 A. De Santis and A. Germani and C. Scoglio Kalman filter approach to solution of rational expectations models . . . . . . 39--47 Nezam Iraniparast Shaking a forced string to rest . . . . 49--54 J. S. H. Tsai and S. S. Chen and L. S. Shieh Generalized matrix Euclidean algorithms for solving Diophantine equations and associated problems . . . . . . . . . . 55--72 Cezary Z. Janikow and Haiyan Cai and Xiaolong Luo An approximate algorithm for estimating treatment lags from right censored data 73--85 Sumit Sur and Pradip K. Srimani Topological properties of star graphs 87--98 G. Dattoli and C. Chiccoli and S. Lorenzutta and G. Maino and M. Richetta and A. Torre Graf-type theorem for Laguerre and Legendre functions . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Anonymous Editorial board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv M. J. Cree and P. J. Bones Algorithms to numerically evaluate the Hankel transform . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 Y.-F. Tang The necessary condition for a Runge--Kutta scheme to be symplectic for Hamiltonian systems . . . . . . . . . . 13--20 Y.-F. Tang Geodesic flows on compact surfaces-as an application of Hamiltonian formalism . . 21--33 Y.-Y. Chen and T.-W. Hwang and C.-A. Wang Existence of similarity solutions for surface-tension driven flows in floating rectangular cavities . . . . . . . . . . 35--52 L. E. Garey and R. E. Shaw Numerical methods for singular nonlinear Volterra type equations with two point boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . 53--61 M. He and D. B. Goldgof and C. Kambhamettu Variation of Gaussian curvature under conformal mapping and its application 63--74 P. Glaister Flux difference splitting for the Euler equations in a general orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system with an application to axially symmetric flows 75--89 L. Lopez Two-step boundary value methods in the solution of ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 J. H. Reif Probabilistic parallel prefix computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
Y. Wu and E. Y. Rodin Control systems in neural networks with local memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--24 J. L. Cruz Soto and M. C. Calzada Canalejo and M. Marín Beltrán and I. Luque Ruiz and M. A. Gómez-Nieto Parallelization of differential problems by partitioning method (synchronized algorithm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--31 W. Layton A two-level discretization method for the Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . 33--38 T. M. Margavio and J. M. Chin A statistical approximation for queueing measures in a decision support system 39--44 A. Onana and A. Mbala Hikolo A direct solver for a class of symmetric linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50 H.-B. Shu Application of the integral invariant of Poincar\`e-Cartan to contact systems . . 51--59 B. D. Raduenz and B. W. Suter and E. R. Christensen Analysis of an Ada based version of Glassman's general $N$-point Fast Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . 61--65 M. M. Chawla and P. N. Shivakumar A symmetric finite difference method for computing eigenvalues of Sturm--Liouville problems . . . . . . . 67--77 E. Martínez-Torres and J. J. López González and M. Fernández-Gómez A topological geometric method for the obtention of symmetry-adapted functions for point groups I. General theory . . . 79--85 J. C. Misra and M. K. Patra Oscillatory flow of a viscous fluid through converging-diverging orthotropic tethered tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--106
P. Erd\Hos and Zhenxiang Zhang Upper bound of $ \Sigma 1 (a_i \log a_i) $ for quasi-primitive sequences . . . . 1--5 L. Derr and C. Outlaw and D. Sarafyan A new method for derivation of continuous Runge--Kutta formulas . . . . 7--13 W.-J. Zhu and M.-Z. Qin Applications of higher order self-adjoint schemes to partial differential equations . . . . . . . . . 15--26 J. Leyva-Ramos A new look at partial fraction expansion of transfer function matrices from a computational viewpoint . . . . . . . . 27--35 A. J. MacLeod High-accuracy numerical values in the Gauss--Kuzmin continued fraction problem 37--44 P. Amodio Optimized cyclic reduction for the solution of linear tridiagonal systems on parallel computers . . . . . . . . . 45--53 W. C. Hassenpflug Matrix tensor notation. Part I. Rectilinear orthogonal coordinates . . . 55--93 W. C. Hassenpflug Revised notation for partial derivatives 95--105
T. C. Chiam Magnetohydrodynamic Boundary Layer Flow Due to a Continuously Moving Flat Plate 1--7 R. S. Bucy and B. G. Williams A Matrix Cross Ratio Theorem for the Riccati Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--20 A. Chattopadhyay and N. Pagaldipti and K. T. Chang A Design Optimization Procedure for Efficient Turbine Airfoil Design . . . . 21--31 M.-Z. Qin and W.-J. Zhu Volume-Preserving Schemes and Numerical Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42 J. Demetrovics and V. D. Thi Algorithms for Generating an Armstrong Relation and Inferring Functional Dependencies in the Relational Datamodel 43--55 J. Carroll A Matricial Exponentially Fitted Scheme for the Numerical Solution of Stiff Initial-Value Problems . . . . . . . . . 57--64 S. Serra Multi-iterative methods . . . . . . . . 65--87 H. H. Kagiwada and J. K. Kagiwada and R. E. Kalaba Precision passive ranging . . . . . . . 89--96 Anonymous Software reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97 Anonymous HiQ\reg version 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
C. E. Mejía and D. A. Murio Mollified hyperbolic method for coefficient identification problems . . 1--12 R. A. Dwyer The expected number of $k$-faces of a Voronoi diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19 B. Bertram Numerical implementation of a Brakhage-like technique for weakly singular integral equations using product integration . . . . . . . . . . 21--26 Luca Gemignani Rational interpolation via orthogonal polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34 P. Moree Bertrand's Postulate for primes in arithmetical progressions . . . . . . . 35--43 Liqing Zhang Phase path tracing methods for solving the high order zeros of nonlinear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50 Mei-Qing Zhang and Meng-Zhao Qin Explicit symplectic schemes to solve vortex systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56 R. F. Arenstorf and L. L. Brewer A study of the motion of zeros of the Epstein zeta function associated to $ m^2 + y^2 n^2 $ as $y$ varies from $1$ to $ \sqrt {6}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69 C. C. Chang and D. J. Buehrer Access control in a hierarchy using a one-way trap door function . . . . . . . 71--76 B. Semper Finite element methods for suspension bridge models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 M. Muraskin Chaos and aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . 93--103 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--105 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix D. Ghose and U. R. Prasad Determination of rational strategies for players in two-target games . . . . . . 1--11 E. A. Galperin The cubic algorithm for global games with application to pursuit-evasion games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--31 M. Guelman Control strategies in a planar pursuit evasion game with energy constraints . . 33--41 T. Miloh and M. Pachter and A. Segal The effect of a finite roll rate on the miss-distance of a bank-to-turn missile 43--54 V. S. Zheleznov and M. N. Ivanov and E. A. Kurskii and E. P. Maslov Avoidance of detection in $3$-D . . . . 55--66 M. N. Ivanov and E. P. Maslov A problem of avoidance of a rotating segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--75 D. A. Klementiev The $3$-D detection problem of an evader moving in a fixed plane . . . . . . . . 77--85 Y. Yavin Applications of stochastic differential games to the suboptimal design of pulse motors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95 A. Garcia-Ortiz and J. Wootton and E. Y. Rodin and S. M. Amin and M. Meusey and C. Ruan and A. Y. Wu and P. De and J. Revetta Application of semantic control to a class of pursuer-evader problems . . . . 97--124 F. Imado and T. Ishihara Pursuit-evasion geometry analysis between two missiles and an aircraft . . 125--139 E. Altman and G. Koole Stochastic scheduling games with Markov Decision Arrival Processes . . . . . . . 141--148 A. Gilam The technology of air power during the great war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--152
W. Banzhaf Self-replicating sequences of binary numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 V. Oliker The ray tracing and energy conservation equations for mirror systems with two reflecting surfaces . . . . . . . . . . 9--18 C.-C. Chang and S.-J. Hwang Using smart cards to authenticate remote passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27 B. Stilman A linguistic approach to geometric reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--57 T. Hwang and S. Y. Hwang An improved algorithm for Davida and Cowles's decoding method . . . . . . . . 59--66 E. Martínez-Torres and J. J. López-González and M. Fernández-Gómez A topological geometric method for the obtention of symmetry-adapted functions for point groups II. The icosahedral group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 P. Glaister Flux difference splitting for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with source terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--96
Mengzhao Qin and Wenjie Zhu Construction of symplectic schemes for wave equations via hyperbolic functions $ \sinh (x) $, $ \cosh (x) $ and $ \tanh (x) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 D. Greenspan Computer study of a semiclassical model of the dynamical water molecule . . . . 13--20 T. C. Huang Extended generalized variational inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--30 G. Marsaglia and B. Narasimhan Simulating interpolation search . . . . 31--42 T. E. Simos Runge--Kutta interpolants with minimal phase-lag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--49 B. Stilman Network Languages for Complex Systems 51--79 M. Muraskin Instantons in nonintegrable aesthetic field theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
George Marsaglia and Arif Zaman Monkey Tests for Random Number Generators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 T. Dohi and N. Kaio and S. Osaki Continuous time inventory control for Wiener process demand . . . . . . . . . 11--22 J. Wang Recurrent neural networks for solving linear matrix equations . . . . . . . . 23--34 D. Bini and E. Bozzo Fast discrete transforms by means of eigenpolynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--52 J. C. Misra and M. K. Patra and S. C. Misra Biorheological aspects of arterial flow near bifurcations . . . . . . . . . . . 53--65 P. Glaister An approximate Riemann solver for the $H$-system in generalized coordinates 67--73 M. Ainsworth and J. T. Oden A posteriori error estimators for second order elliptic systems part 2. An optimal order process for calculating self-equilibrating fluxes . . . . . . . 75--87 Ervin Y. Rodin Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--95
G. P. Klimov and G. R. Marshall Kinetics of interactions between drugs and receptors: stochastic conception . . 1--25 H. H. Yang A one-grid-overlapped spectral multidomain method for the PDEs . . . . 27--33 M. P. Barnett Implicit rule formation in symbolic computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--50 M. P. Ramachandran Numerical solution of an integral equation with logarithmic singularity 51--57 S. Adari and R. A. Ammar Axiomatic-like performance analysis (ALPA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--81 De-Jun Jin and Si-Zhang Liu and Sang-Ho Lee and Hai-Lou Liu and Xi-Guan Lu and Dazhi Zhang The joint sum of graceful trees . . . . 83--87 Si-Zhang Liu and De-Jun Jin and Sang-Ho Lee and Hai-Lou Liu and Xi-Guan Lu and Dazhi Zhang The radical product of graceful trees 89--93
Ervin Y. Rodin Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 W. C. Hassenpflug Convolution number . . . . . . . . . . . 3--135
Yi Xian Yang Period distribution for error-correcting codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 T. E. Simos Runge--Kutta--Nyström interpolants for the numerical integration of special second-order periodic initial-value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15 C. C. Price and M. Salama Optimal task allocation in hypercube multiprocessor ensembles . . . . . . . . 17--24 Tzer-Ming Chen Hybrid Laplace transform/weighting function scheme for transient multidimensional conservation equations 25--34 Zhenyue Zhang A parallel iterative method for solving symmetric tridiagonal extreme eigenpair problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45 Y. Yoshida Optimal stopping problems for multiarmed bandit processes with arms' independence 47--60 S.-M. Yen and C.-S. Laih Server-aided honest computation for cryptographic applications . . . . . . . 61--64 S. Tsubakitani and J. R. Evans A two-dimensional mapping for the traveling salesman problem . . . . . . . 65--73 Jinn-Ke Jan and Shiuh-Jeng Wang A dynamic access control scheme based upon the knapsack problem . . . . . . . 75--86 A.-Z. H. El-Banna A study on parametric multiobjective programming problems without differentiability . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92 Anonymous Software reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93 Anonymous Evolver\TM 2.0: a genetic algorithm for spreadsheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Chau-Jy Lin A systolic algorithm for dynamic programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10 M. A. Diniz-Ehrhardt and J. M. Martínez and S. A. Santos Parallel projection methods and the resolution of ill-posed problems . . . . 11--24 T. Altman and P. F. Boulos A hypoquadratic convergence method for Lagrange multipliers . . . . . . . . . . 25--31 Th. M. Rassias and S. N. Singh and H. M. Srivastava Some $q$-generating functions associated with basic multiple hypergeometric series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39 L. Lister and J. Schaeffer An analysis of the conspiracy numbers algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--64 J. Y. Choo Stable high order methods for elliptic equations with large first order terms 65--80 J. A. Piotrowski Sequential and data flow models of processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96 P. Glaister An efficient numerical scheme for the two-dimensional shallow water equations using arithmetic averaging . . . . . . . 97--117
G. Pap The distribution of estimates of parameters of multidimensional stationary AR processes . . . . . . . . 1--8 L. D. Flippen, Jr. A theory of condensation model reduction 9--40 G. Fairweather and J. C. López-Marcos An explicit extrapolated box scheme for the Gurtin--Maccamy equation . . . . . . 41--53 A. Kharab and R. B. Guenther A numerical model of water, heat and chemical transport in porous media . . . 55--64 B. Stilman Translations of network languages . . . 65--98 Hung-Min Min Sun and Tzonelih Hwang Key generation of algebraic-code cryptosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106 Ervin Y. Rodin Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--112
E. L. Wachspress Three-variable alternating-direction-implicit iteration 1--7 T. Kämpke Efficient versioning for matrix structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--19 K. Coolsaet and V. Fack Optimal data exchange algorithms on star graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--25 R. Jeurissen and W. Layton Load balancing by graph coloring, an algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--32 P. L. Butzer and A. Fischer and K. Rückforth Scaling functions and wavelets with vanishing moments . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39 L. Gabet The decomposition method and distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49 N. I. Ioakimidis and E. G. Anastasselou Application of Gröbner bases to problems of movement of a particle . . . . . . . 51--57 Y. Kondoh and Y. Hosaka and K. Ishii Kernel optimum nearly-analytical discretization (KOND) algorithm applied to parabolic and hyperbolic equations 59--90 L. Bales and I. Lasiecka Continuous finite elements in space and time for the nonhomogeneous wave equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102 E. B. Cohen Analysis of a class of multi-stage, multistep Runge--Kutta methods . . . . . 103--116
C. Török Numerical solution of linear stochastic differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1--10 W. Baritompa Multidimensional bisection: a dual viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--22 C. Y. Hung and B. Parhami An approximate sign detection method for residue numbers and its application to RNS division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35 A. Karoui and R. Vaillancourt Computer solutions of state-dependent delay differential equations . . . . . . 37--51 W. V. Gehrlein and P. C. Fishburn The smallest graphs with niche number three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57 W. L. Golik Order-increasing grid adaption for Runge--Kutta methods applied to two-point boundary value problems . . . 59--75 R. E. Mickens and I. Ramadhani Finite-difference schemes having the correct linear stability properties for all finite step-sizes III . . . . . . . 77--84 M. primak Algorithm for solving a linear exchange model with rationing . . . . . . . . . . 85--90 S. R. Grace Oscillation of certain functional differential equations . . . . . . . . . 91--98 V. Casulli and E. Cattani Stability, accuracy and efficiency of a semi-implicit method for three-dimensional shallow water flow . . 99--112 J. P. Milaszewicz and S. Abdel Masih Errata to ``Elimination and fixed point iterations'': Computers and mathematics with applications, vol. \bf 25, no. 5, pp. 43--54, 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--115
Miin-Shen Yang and Chih-Tien Chen Convergence rate of the fuzzy generalized nearest neighbor rule . . . 1--8 H. Y. Alkahby The dissipation of magneto-acoustic waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--15 J. L. Cruz Soto and M. C. Calzada Canalejo and M. Marín Beltrán and M. A. Gómez-Nieto Numerical analysis of the M.P.P. model of turbulence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28 J. H. Reif and S. R. Tate Approximate kinodynamic planning using $ L_2 $-norm dynamic bounds . . . . . . . 29--44 T. Vukina and J. L. Anderson Price forecasting with state-space models of nonstationary time series: case of the Japanese salmon market . . . 45--62 T.-C. Wu and C.-C. Chang and Y.-S. Yeh An authentication-combined access control scheme using a one-way function 63--70 R. L. Rao and S. S. Iyengar Bin-packing by simulated annealing . . . 71--82 J. Jayakumar and N. Ramanujam A numerical method for singular perturbation problems arising in chemical reactor theory . . . . . . . . 83--99 H. C. Reggini Tree graph representation of Hamiltonian paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--114
S. Y. Yan and T. H. Jackson A new large amicable pair . . . . . . . 1--3 L. D. Flippen, Jr. Constitutive-operator smoothing by condensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--18 M. Tadi Optimal infinite-dimensional estimator and compensator for a Timoshenko beam 19--32 B. L. Fox Random restarting versus simulated annealing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--35 G.-L. Xue A globally convergent algorithm for facility location on a sphere . . . . . 37--50 P. P. Delsanto and G. Kaniadakis and M. Scalerandi and D. Iordache Time scaling in the parallel processing simulation of diffusion processes . . . 51--61 G. Dattoli and L. Giannessi and G. Voykov Analytical and numerical computation of undulator brightness: a comparison . . . 63--78 A. Bernasconi and M. Leoncini and G. Resta Spectral properties of some matrices close to the Toeplitz triangular form 79--92 R. Faure Neural networks and mathematical distributions theory: periodical and almost periodical Dirac firings . . . . 93--97 R. E. Carlson and B. K. Natarajan Sparse approximate multiquadric interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
B. Jones and S. Iyengar Approximate root isolation for nonlinear systems by Monte-Carlo . . . . . . . . . 1--5 C. Carstensen A note on simultaneous rootfinding for algebraic, exponential, and trigonometric polynomials . . . . . . . 7--14 I. Fazekas Hellinger transform of Gaussian autoregressive processes . . . . . . . . 15--21 Chyi Hwang and Rong-Yuang Wu and Ming-Jeng Lu A technique for increasing the accuracy of the FFT-based method of numerical inversion of Laplace transforms . . . . 23--29 Y.-F. Tang Formal energy of a symplectic scheme for Hamiltonian systems and its applications (I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39 H. G. Khajah and E. L. Ortiz Ultra-high precision computations . . . 41--57 A. E. Dixon and C. A. J. Fletcher A preconditioner for equations with dominant convective terms . . . . . . . 59--66 S. González-Pinto and C. González-Concepción and J. I. Montijano Iterative schemes for Gauss methods . . 67--81 M.-J. Chen and T.-Z. Chen and C.-S. Chien and M.-S. Yu A parallel continuation algorithm for nonlinear eigenvalue problems . . . . . 83--97 S. Sen Gupta and K. Mukhopadhyaya and B. B. Bhattacharya and B. P. Sinha Geometric classification of triangulations and their enumeration in a convex polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--115
Ming-Po Chen and J. S. Yu and J. H. Shen The persistence of nonoscillatory solutions of delay differential equations under impulsive perturbations 1--6 T. Shores and C. Tiahrt Subspace projection variants on Newton's method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--17 I. Fazekas Maximum likelihood estimators of parameters of multidimensional stationary Gaussian AR processes . . . . 19--24 W. D. McQuain and C. J. Ribbens and L. T. Watson and R. C. Melville Preconditioned iterative methods for sparse linear algebra problems arising in circuit simulation . . . . . . . . . 25--45 M. Brooks Approximation complexity for piecewise monotone functions and real data . . . . 47--58 R. A. Usmani Inversion of Jacobi's tridiagonal matrix 59--66 T. Kämpke Tight bounds for capacities . . . . . . 67--86 P. Glaister A weak formulation of Roe's approximate Riemann solver applied to `barotropic' flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90 P. Glaister An efficient numerical scheme for the Euler equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--100 C. H. Liu and W. H. Tsai Recognizing cylindrical objects by single camera views . . . . . . . . . . 101--117
Anonymous Dedication: Austin Blaqui\`ere 1923--1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix--ix Art Lew and E. Stanley Lee Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi--xi Nina Bellman Notes on learning Bellman style . . . . xiii--xiii P.-T. Chang and E. S. Lee Ranking of fuzzy sets based on the concept of existence . . . . . . . . . . 1--21 M. Yasuda A linear structure and convexity for relations in dynamic fuzzy systems . . . 23--27 A. O. Esogbue and J. A. Murrell Advances in fuzzy adaptive control . . . 29--35 A. Lew A discrete and continuous systems simulator: applications of PNTBLSIM to manufacturing systems . . . . . . . . . 37--43 A. Nketsa Conservative distributed simulation of Petri nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51 T. C. Hu and J. D. Morgenthaler Dynamic programming and graph optimization problems . . . . . . . . . 53--58 D. Li and J. A. Burger Multilevel dynamic programming for general multiple linear-quadratic control in discrete-time systems . . . . 59--66 E. Angel and P. Leong Multidimensional dynamic programming on massively parallel computers . . . . . . 67--75 A. N. Aizawa and B. W. Wah A sequential sampling procedure for genetic algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82 M. Sugisaka and M. Ino Model predictive control based on neural identification method . . . . . . . . . 83--93 M. Kurano and M. Kawai Existence of optimal stationary policies in discounted Markov decision processes: approaches by occupation measures . . . 95--101 A. Blaqui\`ere and M. Sigal-Pauchard Schrödinger processes with unbounded or singular potentials, conditional Sanov property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--120 A. Lew and R. Halverson, Jr. Dynamic programming, decision tables, and the Hawaii Parallel Computer . . . . 121--127 H. Sugiyama Solving deterministic problems via stochastic approximation --- a simple yet powerful numerical method . . . . . 129--144 G. Adomian Solution of physical problems by decomposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--154 S. M. Yamashiro and G. A. Taylor and S. K. M. Luk and R. E. Kalaba Automated solutions of breathing pattern optimizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--161 A. McNabb and L. Bass Moment expressions for some diffusion-reaction problems . . . . . . 163--168 A. P. Wang and S. Ueno Searchlight on a target with diffuse background II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--173 S. Ueno and A. P. Wang Invariant imbedding and order-of-scattering theory in radiation field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--183 M. Zak and A. P. Zak Unpredictable dynamics and collective brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197 C. S. Lee and G. Leitmann A stabilizing harvesting strategy for an uncertain model of an ecological system 199--212 T. Odanaka Dynamic programming and optimal inventory processes . . . . . . . . . . 213--217
P. Bocher and H. De Meyer and G. Vanden Berghe Numerical solution of Volterra equations based on mixed interpolation . . . . . . 1--11 Y.-R. Ge and J. M. Fitzpatrick A set of one-to-one two-dimensional biquadratic transformations . . . . . . 13--25 D. J. Reid Optimal distributed execution of join queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--40 V. Y. Pan Improved parallel solution of a triangular linear system . . . . . . . . 41--43 C. V. Raghavarao and Y. V. S. S. Sanyasiraju and S. Suresh A note on application of cubic splines to two point boundary value problems . . 45--48 S.-H. Lee and D. Zhang Dual fuzzy similarity relation equations 49--53 M. Van Daele and G. Vanden Berghe and H. De Meyer Numerical integration based on mixed-type interpolation for a fourth-order boundary-value problem . . 55--65 A. E. Köhler Crisp and fuzzy motif and arrangement symmetries in composite geometric figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--87 D. B. Fogel Applying evolutionary programming to selected control problems . . . . . . . 89--104 J. Y. Choo and D. H. Schultz A high order difference method for the steady state Navier--Stokes equations 105--119 Ervin Y. Rodin Book Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--126 Ervin Y. Rodin Book Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--126
Y. Park and U. J. Choi The error analysis for degree reduction of Bézier curves . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6 Wenjie Zhu and Mengzhao Qin Poisson schemes for Hamiltonian systems on Poisson manifolds . . . . . . . . . . 7--16 L. D. Flippen, Jr. Current dynamic substructuring methods as approximations to condensation model reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--29 Yi-Fa Tang and Yong-Hong Long Formal energy of symplectic scheme for Hamiltonian systems and its applications (II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--39 L. Gabet The theoretical foundation of the Adomian method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--52 Qiu-Liang Peng and Lan-Sun Chen Asymptotic Behavior of the nonautonomous two-species Lotka--Volterra competition models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--60 J. S. Chiou and T. B. Chang Laminar film condensation on a horizontal disk with suction at the wall 61--68 L. Demkowicz Asymptotic convergence in finite and boundary element methods: Part 1: theoretical results . . . . . . . . . . 69--84 A. Karageorghis Satisfaction of boundary conditions for Chebyshev collocation methods in cuboidal domains . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--90 R. Ravindran and S. Sundar and P. Prasad Long time behaviour of the solution of a system of equations from new theory of shock dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--104 Y. Shi and P.-L. Yu and D. Zhang Generating new designs using union operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--117 Q. Du Finite element methods for the time-dependent Ginzburg--Landau model of superconductivity . . . . . . . . . . . 119--133
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . i--iii Ravi P. Agarwal Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii C. D. Ahlbrandt and A. Peterson The $ (n, n)$-disconjugacy of a $ 2 n$-th order linear difference equation 1--9 C. D. Ahlbrandt and S. L. Clark and J. W. Hooker and W. T. Patula A discrete interpretation of Reid's roundabout theorem for generalized differential systems . . . . . . . . . . 11--21 B. Aulbach and B. M. Garay Discretization of semilinear differential equations with an exponential dichotomy . . . . . . . . . 23--35 E. Camouzis and G. Ladas and I. W. Rodrigues and S. Northshield The rational recursive sequence $ x_{n + 1} = (\beta x^2_n) \Box (1 + x^2_{n - 1}) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--43 J. R. Cash Stability concepts in the numerical solution of difference and differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53 S.-Z. Chen and L. Erbe Oscillation results for second order scalar and matrix difference equations 55--69 Sui Sun Cheng and Bing-Gen Zhang Monotone solutions of a class of nonlinear difference equations . . . . . 71--79 K. L. Cooke and I. Györi Numerical approximation of the solutions of delay differential equations on an infinite interval using piecewise constant arguments . . . . . . . . . . . 81--92 P. W. Eloe and E. R. Kaufmann A unique limiting Green's function for a class of singular boundary value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--99 B. S. Goh Global attractivity and stability of a scalar nonlinear difference equation . . 101--107 D. Greenspan Conservative difference equations . . . 109--114 A. Halanay and V. Ionescu Anticausal stabilizing solution to discrete reverse-time Riccati equation 115--126 J. Henderson Smoothness of solutions for delay-difference equations . . . . . . . 127--129 J. Henderson and A. Peterson Disconjugacy for a third order linear difference equation . . . . . . . . . . 131--139 A. Iserles The asymptotic behaviour of certain difference equations with proportional delays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--152 J. K. M. Jansen and R. M. M. Mattheij and M. T. M. Penders and W. H. A. Schilders Stability and efficiency of waveform relaxation methods . . . . . . . . . . . 153--166 W. Kelley Asymptotic analysis of solutions in the ``double root'' case . . . . . . . . . . 167--173 M. Kwapisz and K. Nowicka Difference equations and local convergence of inexact Newton methods 175--183 V. Lakshmikantham and B. Kaymakçalan Monotone flows and fixed points for dynamic systems on time scales . . . . . 185--189 B. S. Lalli Oscillation theorems for neutral difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 191--202 Horng Jaan Li and Cheh Chih Yeh Nonoscillation in nonlinear difference equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--208 F. Mazzia and D. Trigiante The role of difference equations in numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 209--217 R. E. Mickens Construction of asymptotic solutions to discrete Bessel equations . . . . . . . 219--226 B. G. Pachpatte Some new finite difference inequalities 227--241 P. Y. H. Pang and R. P. Agarwal Monotone iterative methods for a general class of discrete boundary value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--254 G. Papaschinopoulos Conditions for kinematical similarity of a linear difference equation to a block upper triangular equation . . . . . . . 255--257 M. Pinto Discrete dichotomies . . . . . . . . . . 259--270 J. Popenda The oscillation of solutions of difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 271--279 R. B. Potts and X.-H. Yu Difference equation modelling of a variable structure system . . . . . . . 281--289 Q. Sheng and R. P. Agarwal Monotone methods for higher-order partial difference equations . . . . . . 291--307 E. Thandapani Oscillation theorems for perturbed nonlinear second order difference equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--316 W. F. Trench Asymptotic behavior of solutions of Poincaré recurrence systems . . . . . . . 317--324 J. Wimp and H. Kiesel Nonlinear recurrence relations and induced orthogonal polynomials . . . . . 325--332
Ervin Y. Rodin Széchenyi Prize for Arató Mátyás . . . . . . 1--1 J. I. Ramos and F. R. Villatoro A quantum mechanics analogy for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the finite line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--17 B. B. Jaimini and C. L. Koul and H. M. Srivastava Some multiple series identities . . . . 19--24 A. Karoui and R. Vaillancourt Families of biorthogonal wavelets . . . 25--39 T. E. Simos and G. V. Mitsou A family of four-step exponential fitted methods for the numerical integration of the radial Schrödinger equation . . . . . 41--50 M. Rouff and W.-L. Zhang $ C^k $ spline functions and linear operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59 P.-T. Chang and E. S. Lee Fuzzy linear regression with spreads unrestricted in sign . . . . . . . . . . 61--70 G. Dattoli and C. Chiccoli and S. Lorenzutta and G. Maino and A. Torre Theory of generalized Hermite polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--83 J.-F. Lin and S.-J. Chen Scheduling algorithm for nonpreemptive multiprocessor tasks . . . . . . . . . . 85--92 P. Cubiotti and Je. Ch. Yao The generalized quasi-variational inequality problem over non-compact sets 93--97 J. R. Usher Observations on a useful general nonlinear equation . . . . . . . . . . . 99--105 P. A. Zadrozny and S. Mittnik Kalman-filtering methods for computing information matrices for time-invariant, periodic, and generally time-varying VARMA models and samples . . . . . . . . 107--119 M. Countryman and R. Kannan A class of nonlinear boundary value problems on the half line . . . . . . . 121--130 J. C. Misra and S. K. Pandey Peristaltic transport of a particle-fluid suspension in a cylindrical tube . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--145
H. Wang and J. L. Stephenson and Y.-F. Deng and R. P. Tewarson An efficient parallel algorithm for solving $n$-nephron models of the renal inner medulla . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 K. E. Ahmad Small sample results for a nonlinear discriminant function estimated from a mixture of two Burr Type XII distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--20 W. Layton and H. W. J. Lenferink and J. S. Peterson A two-level newton, finite element algorithm for approximating electrically conducting incompressible fluid flows 21--31 J.-M. Lellouche and J.-L. Devenon and I. Dekeyser Boundary control of Burgers' equation --- a numerical approach . . . . . . . . 33--44 W. Bryc and W. Smole\'nski A sensitivity estimate for Boolean functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51 A. S. Belenky A $3$-person game on polyhedral sets . . 53--56 R. Ashino and M. Nagase and R. Vaillancourt A computer search for simple multi-dimensional wavelets . . . . . . . 57--69 S. Y. Yan 68 new large amicable pairs . . . . . . 71--74 K. Dautenhahn and H. Cruse Computer simulations of path generation and path form modification with local rules working on a parallel cell-based architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--88 P.-T. Chang and E. S. Lee Fuzzy least absolute deviations regression and the conflicting trends in fuzzy parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--101 K. Abbaoui and Y. Cherruault Convergence of Adomian's method applied to differential equations . . . . . . . 103--109 Ervin Y. Rodin Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--114
R. Battiti and G. Tecchiolli Simulated annealing and Tabu search in the long run: a comparison on QAP tasks 1--8 H. Y. Lee Fully discrete methods for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . 9--24 Z. Shen A mathematical model for mesh's dynamic behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--32 E. de Klerk and J. A. Snyman and Structural Optimization Research Group A feasible descent cone method for linearly constrained minimization problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--44 M. E. Hosea and L. F. Shampine Efficiency comparisons of methods for integrating ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55 S. M. Gupta Finite source Erlang based queueing systems: complementarity, equivalence and their implications . . . . . . . . . 57--74 S. M. Shahruz and A. L. Schwartz An approximate solution for homogeneous boundary-value problems with slowly-varying coefficient matrices . . 75--82 K. Ozawa Some globally convergent iterative method based on the bisection iteration for solving nonlinear scalar equations 83--91 L. Demkowicz Asymptotic convergence in finite and boundary element methods: part 2: the LBB constant for rigid and elastic scattering problems . . . . . . . . . . 93--109
M. J. Kaiser The Blaschke--Steinhardt point of a planar convex set . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 J. S. H. Tsai and W. S. Chen and L. S. Shieh Realization, design and implementation of row-pseudoproper left matrix fraction descriptions with impulsive modes . . . 13--41 C. Jekeli Hardy's multiquadric-biharmonic method for gravity field predictions . . . . . 43--46 E. Grycko Extreme values and tests for randomness 47--50 P. J. Y. Wong and R. P. Agarwal Explicit error estimates for Quintic and biquintic spline interpolation II . . . 51--69 P. Glaister An efficient shock capturing scheme for the pseudo-unsteady equations representing steady inviscid flow . . . 71--76 M. Muraskin Dynamical lattice systems . . . . . . . 77--95 P. Glaister An efficient numerical method for compressible flows of a real gas using arithmetic averaging . . . . . . . . . . 97--113 Ervin Y. Rodin Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120
L. C. Stone and S. B. Shukla and B. Neta Parallel satellite orbit prediction using a workstation cluster . . . . . . 1--8 O. Rojo and R. Jiménez A decreasing sequence of upper bounds for the Perron root . . . . . . . . . . 9--15 M. P. Barnett and K. R. Perry Hierarchical addressing in symbolic computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--35 R. Ravindran and S. Sundar Two shock interaction using new theory of shock dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47 D. Lasser Rational tensor product Bézier volumes 49--62 Y. Yavin and G. Zilman and T. Miloh A feasibility study of ship maneuverability in the vicinity of an obstacle: a stochastic control approach 63--76 P. Glaister An analysis of arithmetic averaging in approximate Riemann solvers with an application to steady, supercritical flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--85 Jiann-Der Lee and Chin-Hsing Chen and Jau-Yien Lee Determination of robot location using generalized cylindrical object shapes 87--98 Anonymous Software report . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
M.-P Chen and H. M. Srivastava Some families of bilinear and bilateral generating functions . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 M. L. Brodzik and W. C. Rheinboldt The computation of simplicial approximations of implicitly defined two-dimensional manifolds . . . . . . . 9--21 P. J. Y. Wong and R. P. Agarwal Sharp error bounds for the derivatives of Lidstone-spline interpolation . . . . 23--53 Pei Chann Chang A practical approach for parts scheduling with alternative process plans in automated manufacturing systems 55--65 P. Bhattacharya The representation of permutations by trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71 J. R. Usher Some mathematical models for cancer chemotherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--80 B. Mukhopadhyay and R. K. Bera Nonlinear analysis of thin homogeneous orthotropic elastic plates under large deflection and thermal loading . . . . . 81--88 Zhi-Hong Guan and Yong-Qing Liu The stability properties of nonlinear measure large scale systems with impulse effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--99
J. C. Butcher Initial value problems: numerical methods and mathematics . . . . . . . . 1--16 P. J. van der Houwen and B. P. Sommeijer Preconditioning in parallel Runge--Kutta methods for stiff initial value problems 17--31 A. Marciniak Arbitrary order numerical methods conserving integrals for solving dynamic equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43 N. Hofmann and E. Platen Stability of weak numerical schemes for stochastic differential equations . . . 45--57 M. Countryman and R. Kannan Nonlinear boundary value problems on semi-infinite intervals . . . . . . . . 59--75 R. März and C. Tischendorf Solving more general index-2 differential algebraic equations . . . . 77--105 R. M. Corless What good are numerical simulations of chaotic dynamical systems? . . . . . . . 107--121 Y. Shibberu Time-discretization of Hamiltonian dynamical systems . . . . . . . . . . . 123--145 W. E. Schiesser Method of lines solution of the Korteweg--de Vries equation . . . . . . 147--154 W. G. Hoover and T. G. Pierce and C. G. Hoover and J. O. Shugart and C. M. Stein and A. L. Edwards Molecular dynamics, smoothed-particle applied mechanics, and irreversibility 155--174 B. Wyatt Collisions of microdrops of water . . . 175--208 Y. F. Chang and G. Corliss ATOMFT: solving ODEs and DAEs using Taylor series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--233 K. Burrage and B. Pohl Implementing an ODE code on distributed memory computers . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--252 R. E. Moore Numerical solution of differential equations to prescribed accuracy . . . . 253--261 M. Yamaguti Discrete models in social sciences . . . 263--267 Y. Komori and Y. Saito and T. Mitsui Some issues in discrete approximate solution for stochastic differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--278 C. M. Bender and L. R. Mead and K. A. Milton Discrete time quantum mechanics . . . . 279--317 J. A. McCammon and B. M. Pettitt and L. R. Scott Ordinary differential equations of molecular dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . 319--326 T. Kuusela AC-driven damped Toda lattice . . . . . 327--351 D. Sarafyan Approximate solution of ordinary differential equations and their systems through discrete and continuous embedded Runge--Kutta formulae and upgrading of their order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--384
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v F. Malek and R. Vaillancourt Polynomial zerofinding iterative matrix algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 T. Yabe and F. Xiao Description of complex and sharp interface with fixed grids in incompressible and compressible fluid 15--25 P. Glaister Shock capturing for supercritical, free-surface flows in curvilinear channel geometries . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37 M. Vlieg-Hulstman and W. D. Halford Exact solutions to KdV equations with variable coefficients and/or nonuniformities . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47 K. Black A Petrov--Galerkin spectral element technique for heterogeneous porous media flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--65 I. P. Boglaev and V. V. Sirotkin Iterative domain decomposition algorithms for the solution of $2$-D Eddy current problem . . . . . . . . . . 67--81 P. Glaister An efficient shock capturing scheme for two-dimensional, open channel, unsteady flows in a generalised coordinate system 83--88 B. Ducomet Decay of solutions of the wave equation outside rough surfaces . . . . . . . . . 89--108 K.-L. Chung and Y.-H. Tsai and W.-M. Yan A parallel solver for circulant block-tridiagonal systems . . . . . . . 109--113 M. M. Balakrishnarajan and P. Venuvanalingam An artificial intelligence approach for the generation and enumeration of perfect matchings on graphs . . . . . . 115--121
Larry Wos Preface: the field of automated reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi--xiv K. Kunen The shortest single axioms for groups of exponent $4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 R. Padmanabhan and W. McCune Single identities for ternary Boolean algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--16 R. Padmanabhan and W. McCune Automated reasoning about cubic curves 17--26 R. S. Boyer and M. Kaufmann and J. S. Moore The Boyer--Moore theorem prover and its interactive enhancement . . . . . . . . 27--62 S. C. Chou and X. S. Gao The computer searches for Pascal conics 63--71 C. Brink and D. M. Gabbay and H. J. Ohlbach Towards automating duality . . . . . . . 73--90 D. Kapur and H. Zhang An overview of Rewrite Rule Laboratory (RRL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--114 J. Slaney and M. Fujita and M. Stickel Automated reasoning and exhaustive search: Quasigroup existence problems 115--132 L. Wos The resonance strategy . . . . . . . . . 133--178
R. McLachlan Comment on ``Poisson schemes for Hamiltonian systems on Poisson manifolds'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 G. Adomian and R. E. Meyers The Ginzburg--Landau equation . . . . . 3--4 M.-P. Chen and B. S. Lalli and J. S. Yu Oscillation in neutral delay difference equations with variable coefficients . . 5--11 B. Ducomet Decay of electromagnetic energy in a perturbed half-space . . . . . . . . . . 13--21 T. Dohi and S. Osaki Optimal inventory policies under product obsolescent circumstance . . . . . . . . 23--30 P. Florchinger A new decomposition method for stochastic dynamic stabilization . . . . 31--36 Ruey-Shun Chen and Deng-Jyi Chen and Y. S. Yeh A new heuristic approach for reliability optimization of distributed computing systems subject to capacity constraints 37--47 R. Kimmel and G. Sapiro Shortening three-dimensional curves via two-dimensional flows . . . . . . . . . 49--62 A. E. 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M. A. Kelmanson and B. Lonsdale Annihilation of boundary singularities via suitable Green's functions . . . . . 1--7 D. J. Condon Day's implementation of the Pruess method for Sturm--Liouville eigenvalues 9--14 N. Bellomo and L. Ridolfi Solution of nonlinear initial-boundary value problems by sinc collocation-interpolation methods . . . 15--28 H. M. Srivastava and L. C. Gupta Some families of generating functions for the Jacobi polynomials . . . . . . . 29--35 D. Greenspan Completely conservative, covariant numerical methodology . . . . . . . . . 37--43 M. Stynes and L. Tobiska Necessary $ L^2 $-uniform convergence conditions for difference schemes for two-dimensional convection--diffusion problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53 A. C. Fowler and G. Kember A nonlinear filtering technique for multi-oscillator systems . . . . . . . . 55--67 C. C. Chang and S. W. Fan and H. T. Liaw and M. Y. Chiou Cryptanalysis on an access control in a hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72 L. Jodar and E. Ponsoda Computing continuous numerical solutions of matrix differential equations . . . . 73--84 P. K. Jana and B. P. Sinha Fast parallel algorithm for polynomial interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92 Ruey-Shun Chen and Deng-Jyi Chen and Y. S. Yeh Reliability optimization of distributed computing systems subject to capacity constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--99 J. Demetrovics and V. D. Thi Family of functional dependencies and its equivalent descriptions . . . . . . 101--109
G. Adomian The diffusion-Brusselator equation . . . 1--3 M. L. Buzano and S. E. Corno and I. Cravero A new procedure for integrating the point kinetic equations for fission reactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19 P.-T. Chang and E. S. Lee The estimation of normalized fuzzy weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--42 Y. Shi Studies on optimum-path ratios in multicriteria De Novo programming problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--50 J. A. Johnson Semantic relatedness . . . . . . . . . . 51--63 S. X. Bai and Y.-K. Tsai A production control problem in competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--80 L. M. Laita and B. Ramírez and L. De Ledesma and A. Riscos A formal model for verification of dynamic consistency of KBSs . . . . . . 81--96 D. A. Murio and H. C. Zheng A stable algorithm for $3$D-IHCP . . . . 97--110
N. M. Arató The estimate of potential in stochastic Schrödinger's equation . . . . . . . . . 1--5 A. Korzeniowski and D. Greenspan Numerical studies of microturbulence in water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15 N. T. Hai and H. M. Srivastava The convergence problem of certain multiple Mellin--Barnes contour integrals representing $H$-functions in several variables . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25 P. Favati and G. Lotti and F. Romani Peano kernel behaviour and error bounds for symmetric quadrature formulas . . . 27--34 T. M. El-Gindy and H. M. El-Hawary and M. S. Salim and M. El-Kady A Chebyshev approximation for solving optimal control problems . . . . . . . . 35--45 S. D. Nikolopoulos and S. D. Danielopoulos Parallel computation of perfect elimination schemes using partition techniques on triangulated graphs . . . 47--57 D. M. Bedivan A two-grid method for solving elliptic problems with inhomogeneous boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66 S. N. Venkatarangan and K. Rajalakshmi A modification of Adomian's solution for nonlinear oscillatory systems . . . . . 67--73 S. N. Venkatarangan and K. Rajalakshmi Modification of Adomian's decomposition method to solve equations containing radicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80 J. M. Ferreira and A. Chattopadhyay and S. J. Pringnitz Development of a multiobjective optimization procedure for reducing edge delamination stresses in composite plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--97 So-Yenn Tsai and Tsan-Hui Hsu Thermal transport of a continuous moving plate in a non-Newtonian fluid . . . . . 99--108
W.-J. Zhu and M.-Z. Qin Reply to ``Comment on `Poisson schemes for Hamiltonian systems on Poisson manifolds''' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 O. Rojo and R. L. Soto and T. Avila and H. Rojo Localization of eigenvalues in elliptic regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--11 C.-Z. Xu and P. Ligarius and J.-P. Gauthier An observer for infinite-dimensional dissipative bilinear systems . . . . . . 13--21 P. M. Pardalos and Y. Li and W. W. Hager Linear programming approaches to the convex hull problem in $ R^m $ . . . . . 23--29 T. E. Simos and G. Mousadis A two-step method for the numerical solution of the radial Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--37 K. N. Balasubramanya Murthy and C. Siva Ram Murthy A new Gaussian elimination-based algorithm for parallel solution of linear equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--54 A. Chattopadhyay and N. Pagaldipti A multidisciplinary optimization using semi-analytical sensitivity analysis procedure and multilevel decomposition 55--66 K. W. Chung and H. S. Y. Chan Spherical symmetries from dynamics . . . 67--81 I. P. Stavroulakis Oscillations of delay difference equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--88 C. Gáspár An interative and multigrid solution of boundary integral equations . . . . . . 89--101 K. Abbaoui and Y. Cherruault New ideas for proving convergence of decomposition methods . . . . . . . . . 103--108 Anonymous Book report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--114
M. A.-K. Ibrahim and A. El-Safty and S. M. Abo-Hasha 2 $h$-Step spline method for the solution of delay differential equations 1--6 R.-L. Sheu and S.-Y. Wu and S.-C. Fang A primal-dual infeasible-interior-point algorithm for linear semi-infinite programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--18 E.-Y Lee and K. J. Kim and U. J. Choi A construction of the simplest super pseudorandom permutation generator . . . 19--25 S. Kim and R. P. Tewarson The convergence of quasi-Gauss--Newton methods for nonlinear problems . . . . . 27--38 Wei-Cheng Lian and Cheh-Chih Yeh and Horng-Jaan Li The distance between zeros of an oscillatory solution to a half-linear differential equation . . . . . . . . . 39--43 S. C. Nandy and B. B. Bhattacharya A unified algorithm for finding maximum and minimum object enclosing rectangles and cuboids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61 L. Jódar and E. Ponsoda Continuous numerical solutions and error bounds for time dependent systems of partial differential equations: Mixed problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71 Yu. F. Luchko and H. M. Srivastava The exact solution of certain differential equations of fractional order by using operational calculus . . 73--85 R. H. Fabiano Stability preserving spline approximations for scalar functional differential equations . . . . . . . . . 87--94 D. Lasser Rational tensor product Bézier volumes 95--108
Y. Yavin and C. Frangos and G. Zilman and T. Miloh Computation of feasible command strategies for the navigation of a ship in a narrow zigzag channel . . . . . . . 1--23 R. Liska and L. Margolin and B. Wendroff Nonhydrostatic two-layer models of incompressible flow . . . . . . . . . . 25--37 L. D. Flippen, Jr. Interpolation-based condensation of algebraic semi-discrete models with frequency response application . . . . . 39--52 F. Schmidt and P. Deuflhard Discrete transparent boundary conditions for the numerical solution of Fresnel's equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--76 T. Szkodny Modelling of kinematics of the IRb-6 manipulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--94 V. Bharadwaj and D. Ghose and V. Mani An efficient load distribution strategy for a distributed linear network of processors with communication delays . . 95--112
B. V. Saunders A boundary conforming grid generation system for interface tracking . . . . . 1--17 Mo-Hong Chou Computer-aided experiments on the Hopf bifurcation of the FitzHugh--Nagumo nerve model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--33 E. Martinez-Torres and J. J. Lopez-Gonzalez and M. Fernandez-Gomez A topological geometric method for the obtention of symmetry-adapted functions for point groups III. The cubic group 35--39 E. Martinez-Torres and J. J. Lopez-Gonzalez and M. Fernandez-Gomez A topological geometric method for the obtention of symmetry-adapted functions for point groups IV. The dihedral groups 41--44 C. Huntingford An exact solution to the one-phase zero-surface-tension Hele--Shaw free-boundary problem . . . . . . . . . 45--50 G. Pap and M. C. A. van Zuijlen The Stringer bound in case of uniform taintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59 D. S. Tselnik A bound for the remainder of the Hilbert--Schmidt series and other results on representation of solutions to the functional equation of the second kind with a self-adjoint compact operator as an infinite series . . . . . 61--68 M. M. Rizk and S. L. Zaher Approximate solutions of nonlinear integro-differential equations on complex domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78 M. M. Chawla and M. A. Al-Zanaidi and M. S. Al-Sahhar A class of stabilized extended one-step methods for the numerical solution of ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84 D.-J. Chen and W. C. Hol and R.-S. Chen and D. T. K. Chen A heuristic algorithm for the reliability-oriented file assignment in a distributed computing system . . . . . 85--104
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Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . iii--xi S. Y. Yan Primality testing of large numbers in Maple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8 P. Cubiotti Discontinuous quasivariational-like inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12 A. Karoui and R. Vaillancourt McClellan transformation and the construction of biorthogonal wavelet bases of $ L^2 R^2 $ . . . . . . . . . . 13--26 P. Glaister A comparison of the different extensions of a weak formulation of an approximate Riemann solver for supercritical flows and their relationship to existing schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38 K. E. Ahmad and Z. F. Jaheen Approximate Bayes estimators applied to the inverse Gaussian lifetime model . . 39--47 P. Cubiotti and J.-C. Yao Multivalued $ (S)^1_+ $ operators and generalized variational inequalities . . 49--56 R. Echevarría The numerical solution of some elliptic problems with nonlinear discontinuities using exact regularization . . . . . . . 57--66 C. V. Raghavarao and S. T. P. T. Srinivas A note on parametric spline function approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--73 Young-Ching Deng and Yue-Li Wang and Jou-Ming Chang A new way of counting $ n^m $ . . . . . 75--80 H. H. ten Cate Applying abstraction and formal specification in numerical software design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--102 M. S. El Naschie Statistical geometry of a Cantor discretum and semiconductors . . . . . . 103--110
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v O. Altintas and H. Irmak and H. M. Srivastava A subclass of analytic functions defined by using certain operators of fractional calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 D. Hinestroza Identification of transmissivity coefficients by mollification techniques. Part II: $n$-dimensional elliptic problems . . . . . . . . . . . 11--30 R. Melville and D. S. Mackey A new algorithm for two-dimensional numerical continuation . . . . . . . . . 31--46 R. Srivastava Some results on integrals involving generalized Jacobi and related functions 47--52 H. M. Srivastava and M. K. Aouf Some applications of fractional calculus operators to certain subclasses of prestarlike functions with negative coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--61 N. T. Long and A. P. N. Dinh Periodic solutions of a nonlinear parabolic equation associated with the penetration of a magnetic field into a substance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--78 J. P. Milaszewicz Monotone discrete Newton iterations and elimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--90 S. Banerjee and S. K. Roychoudhuri Spherically symmetric thermo-visco-elastic waves in a visco-elastic medium with a spherical cavity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--98 E. Navarro and E. Ponsoda and L. Jódar A matrix approach to the analytic-numerical solution of mixed partial differential systems . . . . . . 99--109
K. E. Ahmad The efficiency of a nonlinear discriminant function based on unclassified initial samples from a mixture of two Burr type XII populations 1--7 O. Altintas and H. Irmak and H. M. Srivastava Fractional calculus and certain starlike functions with negative coefficients . . 9--15 D. M. Bedivan and G. J. Fix Least squares methods for optimal shape design problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25 E. Vandermeulen and H. A. Donegan and M. Larnac and J. Magnier The temporal Boolean derivative applied to verification of extended finite state machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--36 F. Malek and R. Vaillancourt A composite polynomial zerofinding matrix algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47 C.-C. Chou and Y.-F. Deng and G. Li and Y. Wang Parallelizing Strassen's method for matrix multiplication on distributed-memory MIMD architectures 49--69 V. Y. Pan Deterministic improvement of complex polynomial factorization based on the properties of the associated resultant 71--94 A. Csenki A dependability measure for Markov models of repairable systems: Solution by randomization and computational experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--110
George A. Anastassiou Preface: Concrete analysis . . . . . . . xv--xv J. A. Adell and J. de la Cal Bernstein--Durrmeyer operators . . . . . 1--14 G. A. Anastassiou Comparison theorems on moduli of continuity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21 C. Badea $K$-functionals and moduli of smoothness of functions defined on compact metric spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--31 G. Baszenski and F.-J. Delvos and M. Tasche A united approach to accelerating trigonometric expansions . . . . . . . . 33--49 L. Chong and G. A. Watson Characterization of a best and a unique best approximation from constrained rationals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57 H. Esser and St. J. Goebbels and G. Lüttgens and R. J. Nessel Sharp error bounds for the Crank--Nicolson and Saulyev difference scheme in connection with an initial boundary value problem for the inhomogeneous heat equation . . . . . . 59--68 B. Germano and P. Natalini and P. E. Ricci Computing the moments of the density of zeros for orthogonal polynomials . . . . 69--81 H. H. Gonska and D.-X. Zhou Local smoothness of functions and Bernstein--Durrmeyer operators . . . . . 83--101 H. H. Gonska and X.-l. Zhou The strong converse inequality for Bernstein--Kantorovich operators . . . . 103--128 C. W. Groetsch Regularized product integration for Hadamard finite part integrals . . . . . 129--135 Y.-K. Hu Positive and copositive spline approximation in $ L_p [0, 1] $ . . . . 137--146 R. K. Kovacheva A note on the limiting distribution of the zeros of Padé approximants for some classes of functions . . . . . . . . . . 147--153 G. Mastroianni and D. Occorsio Interlacing properties of the zeros of the orthogonal polynomials and approximation of the Hilbert transform 155--168 J. Prestin and F. Sprengel Multivariate trigonometric wavelet decompositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--182 J. B. Prolla Semilattices and lattices of bounded continuous functions . . . . . . . . . . 183--190 B. Shekhtman Interpolation of individual functions 191--196 J. Shi and R. Huotari Simultaneous approximation from convex sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--206 O. Shisha The genesis of the generalized Riemann integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--211 A. K. Varma and E. Landau New quadrature formulas based on the zeros of Jacobi polynomials . . . . . . 213--220 W. R. Wade A Walsh system for polar coordinates . . 221--227 M. Weba Cubature of random fields by product-type integration rules . . . . . 229--234 R. A. Zalik Some remarks on spectral approximation 235--241 M. Zhou and G. A. Anastassiou Some saturation properties of the representation formulae for $ (C_0) m $-parameter operator semigroups . . . . 243--253 M. Bartelt and W. Li Error estimates and Lipschitz constants for best approximation in continuous function spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--268 M. Campiti and G. Metafune and D. Pallara Uniformly convergent Lagrange-type approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--276 B. L. Chalmers and M. P. Prophet The geometry of minimal shape-preserving projections onto $ \Pi_n $ . . . . . . . 277--282 Z. Ciesielski Fractal functions and Schauder bases . . 283--291 S. Dahlke and P. Maass The Affine uncertainty principle in one and two dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305 M. He The Faber polynomials for circular lunes 307--315 T.-X. He Shape criteria of Bernstein--Bézier polynomials over simplexes . . . . . . . 317--333 O. Kounchev Optimal recovery of linear functionals of Peano type through data on manifolds 335--351 E.-B. Lin Multi-dimensional Wavelet Stieltjes transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--359 K. Marti Differentiation of probability functions: the transformation method . . 361--382 R. N. Mohapatra and F. Salzmann and D. Ross Norm inequalities which yield inclusion for Euler sequence spaces . . . . . . . 383--387 T. Nishishiraho Approximation processes with respect to positive multiplication operators . . . 389--408 P. E. Ricci Improving the asymptotics for the greatest zeros of Hermite polynomials 409--416 F. Fehér and M. J. Strauss Weak-type interpolation and orbits . . . 417--431 M. Genuit and G. Schöttler A problem of L. L. Campbell on the equivalence of the Kramer and Shannon sampling theorems . . . . . . . . . . . 433--443
I. Borno and Z. Gajic Parallel algorithm for solving coupled algebraic Lyapunov equations of discrete-time jump linear systems . . . 1--4 J. Zhang and J. A. Belward Tau-method approximations for the Bessel function $ Y_0 (z) $ . . . . . . . . . . 5--14 J. Zhang Tau-method approximations for the Bessel function $ Y_1 (z) $ . . . . . . . . . . 15--19 N. Bellomo and P. LeTallec and B. Perthame The solution of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation: a survey of analytic and computational methods . . . . . . . . . 21--30 P. Glaister A comparison of the computational efficiency of three averaging procedures in a numerical scheme for the shallow water equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35 D. M. Bedivan A Galerkin finite element method for an optimal shape design semiconductor problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46 K. V. Shvachko Space saving generalization of $B$-trees with 23 utilization . . . . . . . . . . 47--66 S.-T. Li and Mengzhao Qin A note for Lie--Poisson Hamilton--Jacobi equation and Lie--Poisson integrator . . 67--74 M. Jablo\'nski and P. Góra and A. Boyarsky Invariant measures generated by sequences of approximating transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91 Y. Ishida and K. Kotovsky Symmetry analysis on symmetry cognition on multilevel figures . . . . . . . . . 93--102 P. Glaister An analysis of arithmetic averaging in a Riemann solver for the one-dimensional Euler equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--112 G. Dattoli and G. Maino and C. Chiccoli and S. Lorenzutta and A. Torre A unified point of view on the theory of generalized Bessel functions . . . . . . 113--125
Yong-Hong Long Thinning and multinomial thinning of point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4 M.-Y Kim and E.-J Park An upwind scheme for a nonlinear model in age-structured population dynamics 5--17 M. M. Rizk Approximate solution of initial-value problem for retarded differential equations on complex domain . . . . . . 19--27 W. Hurley and L. McDonough A note on simulating unbiased heterogeneous expectations . . . . . . . 29--32 K.-Y. Lam and K. Sung and L. C.-K. Hui A cardinalised binary representation for exponentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39 J. E. Castillo and J. M. Hyman and M. J. Shashkov and S. Steinberg The sensitivity and accuracy of fourth order finite-difference schemes on nonuniform grids in one dimension . . . 41--55 V. Pan and A. L. Zheng and O. Dias and X. H. Huang A fast, preconditioned conjugate gradient Toeplitz and Toeplitz-like solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--63 D. Tang and G. Gupta An efficient parallel dynamic programming algorithm . . . . . . . . . 65--74 R. Lin and S. Olariu and G. Pruesse An optimal path cover algorithm for cographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--83 P. Glaister A weak formulation of Roe's scheme for two-dimensional, unsteady, compressible flows and steady, supersonic flows . . . 85--93 E. Bribiesca and D. A. Rosenblueth and M. Garza-Jinich Definite-clause grammars for $2$D shape analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103 A. S. Alfa Modelling traffic queues at a signalized intersection with vehicle-actuated control and Markovian Arrival Processes 105--119
G. Antonoiu and P. K. Srimani A self-stabilizing distributed algorithm to construct an arbitrary spanning tree of a connected graph . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 F. Ihlenburg and I. Babuska Finite element solution of the Helmholtz equation with high wave number. Part I: the $h$-version of the FEM . . . . . . . 9--37 D. O'Regan A fixed point theorem for condensing operators and applications to Hammerstein integral equations in Banach spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49 Y. Shibata and Y. Gonda Extension of de Bruijn graph and Kautz graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61 Horng-Twu Liaw Password authentications using triangles and straight lines . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71 H. M. Srivastava and M. A. Hussain Fractional integration of the $H$-function of several variables . . . 73--85 S. M. Barkai and O. Rand Implementation of the ``Harmonic Variables'' concept in the vibration analysis of a coupled rotor/fuselage system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--104 S. 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Ching-An Wang and Tu-Cheng Wu Similarity solutions of steady flows in a channel with accelerating walls . . . 1--16 C. K. Koç Analysis of sliding window techniques for exponentiation . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24 D. A. Voss and A. Q. M. Khaliq Parallel LOD methods for second order time dependent PDEs . . . . . . . . . . 25--35 M. Van Daele and G. Vanden Berghe and H. De Meyer Properties and implementation of $ \rho $-Adams methods based on mixed-type interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--54 A. L. Barker and D. E. Brown and W. N. Martin Bayesian estimation and the Kalman filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--77 Y. Yavin and C. Frangos and G. Zilman and T. Miloh Computation of feasible command strategies for the navigation of a ship in a narrow zigzag channel . . . . . . . 79--101 Y. Yavin and G. Zilman and T. Miloh Ship maneuverability in finite depth water in the vicinity of an obstacle: a stochastic control approach . . . . . . 103--117
Y. J. Yon and D. Y. Kwak Nonconforming multigrid method for nonsymmetric and indefinite problems . . 1--7 W. A. van der Veen Step-parallel algorithms for stiff initial value problems . . . . . . . . . 9--23 M. H. B. M. Shariff A constrained conjugate gradient method and the solution of linear equations . . 25--37 W. F. Trench Invertibly convergent infinite products of matrices, with applications to difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 39--46 V. S. Manoranjan and M. O. Gomez Alternating direction implicit method with exponential upwinding . . . . . . . 47--58 G. M. Del Corso Randomization and the parallel solution of linear algebra problems . . . . . . . 59--72 A. R. Miller and I. S. Moskowitz Reduction of a class of Fox--Wright psi functions for certain rational parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--82 M. A. Noor Generalized multivalued variational inequalities II . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--89 S. Rampone Linear codes interpolation from noisy patterns by means of a vector quantization process . . . . . . . . . . 91--106 A. Pozzi and E. Bassano Application of Padé approximants to the study of plane jets . . . . . . . . . . 107--123 F. Sezgin Some remarks on a new composite random number generator . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
Anonymous List of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--ix Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x--xi L. Jódar and D. Goberna Analytic numerical solution of coupled semi-infinite diffusion problems . . . . 1--10 P. Cubiotti Existence of solutions for lower semicontinuous quasi-equilibrium problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--22 M.-Y. Kim and E.-J. Park Mixed approximation of a population diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . 23--33 C. E. Mejía and D. A. Murio Numerical identification of diffusivity coefficient and initial condition by discrete mollification . . . . . . . . . 35--50 A. Benczúr and C. Hajas and G. Kovács Datalog extension for nested relations 51--79 A. C. N. van Duin and P. C. Hansen and Tz. Ostromsky and H. Wijshoff and Z. Zlatev Improving the numerical stability and the performance of a parallel sparse solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96 Yi-Tian Gao and Bo Tian New family of overturning soliton solutions for a typical breaking soliton equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100 G. L. Kraut and I. Gladwell Convergence and instability in PCG methods for bordered systems . . . . . . 101--109 W. F. Trench Asymptotic behavior of solutions of asymptotically constant coefficient systems of linear differential equations 111--117
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v H. Zheng and D. A. Murio $3$D-IHCP on a finite cube . . . . . . . 1--14 Y. Liu and D. A. Murio Numerical experiments in $2$-D IHCP on bounded domains. Part I: the ``interior'' cube problem . . . . . . . 15--32 A. McKenney An Adaptation of the Fast Multipole Method for Evaluating Layer Potentials in Two Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . 33--57 M. L. Chaudhry and J. G. C. Templeton and U. C. Gupta Analysis of the discrete-time GI/Geom($n$)/1/N queue . . . . . . . . . 59--68 G. Avdelas and T. E. Simos Block Runge--Kutta methods for periodic initial-value problems . . . . . . . . . 69--83 L. S. Nyland and J. H. Reif An algebraic technique for generating optimal CMOS circuitry in linear time 85--108 M. De la Sen The reachability and observability of hybrid multirate sampling linear systems 109--122 M. Katsurada and H. Okamoto The collocation points of the fundamental solution method for the potential problem . . . . . . . . . . . 123--137
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P. Maponi and M. C. Recchioni and F. Zirilli Three-dimensional time harmonic electromagnetic inverse scattering: the reconstruction of the shape and the impedance of an obstacle . . . . . . . . 1--7 Z. Li A note on immersed interface method for three-dimensional elliptic equations . . 9--17 E. Navarro and M. V. Ferrer and L. Jódar Analytic solution with a priori error bounds for a class of mixed coupled partial differential equations . . . . . 19--31 Tan-Chun Lu and Yu-Song Hou and Rong-Jaye Chen A parallel Poisson generator using parallel prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42 C. L.-Y. Wang Computer implementation of a series solution for constant coefficient ordinary differential equations . . . . 43--60 P. J. Y. Wong and R. P. Agarwal Sharp error bounds for the derivatives of Lidstone-spline interpolation II . . 61--90 B. Stilman Network languages for intelligent control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--118 Yuang-Chen Hsueh Relation-based variations of the discrete radon transform . . . . . . . . 119--131
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Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . iii--xii M. A. Noor Generalized multivalued quasi-variational inequalities . . . . . 1--13 L. Li A new complexity bound for the least-squares problem . . . . . . . . . 15--16 Zhong-Zhi Bai The monotone convergence of a class of parallel nonlinear relaxation methods for nonlinear complementarity problems 17--33 L. Jódar and E. Ponsoda and M. Legua Fernández Well-conditioning for variable coefficient second order boundary value difference systems . . . . . . . . . . . 35--48 Zhengyi Lu Computer aided proof for the global stability of Lotka--Volterra systems . . 49--59 Xiaoliang Zhou and Jurang Yan Oscillatory property of higher order nonlinear difference equations . . . . . 61--68 O. Rojo and R. Soto Perron root bounding for nonnegative persymmetric matrices . . . . . . . . . 69--76 Jen-Chwan Liu Duality for nondifferentiable static multiobjective variational problems involving generalized $ (F, \rho) $-convex functions . . . . . . . . . . . 77--89 G. Steiner and J. S. Yeomans A linear time algorithm for maximum matchings in convex, bipartite graphs 91--96 V. Y. Pan Optimal and nearly optimal algorithms for approximating polynomial zeros . . . 97--138
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v M. Witten Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii M. K. Apostolos and M. Littman and S. Lane and D. Handelman and J. Gelfand Robot choreography: an artistic-scientific connection . . . . . 1--4 S. D. Beck The virtual instrument paradigm: an alternative approach to interactive computer music . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10 C. Bestor MAX as an overall control mechanism for multidiscipline installation art . . . . 11--16 I. Choi Computation and semiotic practice as compositional process . . . . . . . . . 17--35 P. W. Farrett Intelligent musical instrument systems 37--48 D. Skrien and J. Hallstrom Composers toolbox, a Lisp-based precomposition environment: general system overview and an introduction to the package's new Krayola MIDI paint module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55 M. Helmuth Granular synthesis composition with StochGran and Max . . . . . . . . . . . 57--74 S. Pengilly Integrating performance, live electronics, and interactive video . . . 75--77 C. L. Scott Interactive electroacoustic performance transactional composition . . . . . . . 79--83 O. Laske Knowledge technology and the arts: a personal view . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88 N. Leonard III ``Legacy: San Lazaro'' the integration of composition, performance, and computer programming . . . . . . . . . . 89--92 G. W. Logemann Software for the Mathews Stanford radio drum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96 T. Miley and T. McFadden A sonar, interactive dance and music system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--107 G. L. Nelson Real time transformation of musical material with fractal algorithms . . . . 109--116 D. V. Oppenheim DMIX: a multifaceted environment for composing and performing computer music 117--135 R. Roth Music and animation tool kit: Modules for computer multimedia composition . . 137--144 M. Witten The sounds of science: II. Listening to dynamical systems-Towards a musical exploration of complexity . . . . . . . 145--173
S. Panja and P. R. Sengupta and L. Debnath Hydromagnetic flow of reiner-rivlin fluid between two coaxial circular cylinders with porous walls . . . . . . 1--4 L. Jódar and P. Almenar Accurate continuous numerical solutions of time dependent mixed partial differential problems . . . . . . . . . 5--19 I. S. Milovanovi\'c and E. I. Milovanovi\'c and I. Z. Milentijevi\'c and M. K. Stojcev Designing of processor-time optimal systolic arrays for band matrix--vector multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31 C. E. Mejía and D. A. Murio Numerical solution of generalized IHCP by discrete mollification . . . . . . . 33--50 R. Janicki and W. W. Koczkodaj A weak order approach to group ranking 51--59 G. Fiorentino and S. Serra Fast parallel solvers for elliptic problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68 K. K. Nambiar Sentient arithmetic and Gödel's theorems 69--73 I. P. Boglaev and V. V. Sirotkin Solution of a singularly perturbed parabolic problem by domain decomposition with time extrapolation 75--90 Jen-Chwan Liu Optimality and duality for generalized fractional programming involving nonsmooth $ (F, \rho) $-convex functions 91--102 A. K. Gupta and D. Song Generalized Liouville distribution . . . 103--109 G. A. Gravvanis and E. A. Lipitakis A three-dimensional explicit preconditioned solver . . . . . . . . . 111--131
M. A. Gomes-Ruggiero and D. N. Kozakevich and J. M. Martínez A numerical study on large-scale nonlinear solvers . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 H. Y. Lee and M. J. Ahn The convergence of the fully discrete solution for the Roseneau equation . . . 15--22 R. Ashino and M. Nagase and R. Vaillancourt A construction of multiwavelets . . . . 23--37 Zi-Cai Li Splitting-integrating methods for the image transformations $T$ and $ T^{-1} T$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--60 N. Pagaldipti and A. Chattopadhyay A discrete semianalytical procedure for aerodynamic sensitivity analysis including grid sensitivity . . . . . . . 61--71 C. Krattenthaler and H. M. Srivastava Summations for basic hypergeometric series involving a $q$-analogue of the digamma function . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--91 R. Qu and R. P. Agarwal Smooth surface interpolation to scattered data using interpolatory subdivision algorithms . . . . . . . . . 93--110 E. Thandapani and P. Sundaram and B. S. Lalli Oscillation theorems for higher order nonlinear delay difference equations . . 111--117 N. h. Cong Explicit parallel two-step Runge--Kutta--Nyström methods . . . . . . 119--130
R. I. Greenberg and Jau-Der Shih Single-layer channel routing and placement with single-sided nets . . . . 1--7 Ming-Po Chen and Bing Liu Asymptotic behavior of solutions of first order nonlinear delay difference equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--13 A. Boy Analysis for a system of coupled reaction-diffusion parabolic equations arising in biology . . . . . . . . . . . 15--21 Y. Cho and V. I. Shin and M. Oh and Y. Lee Suboptimal continuous filtering based on the decomposition of observation vector 23--31 A. Kh. Al Jabri Shrinking generators and statistical leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39 Zhong-Zhi Bai New comparison theorem for the nonlinear multisplitting relaxation method for the nonlinear complementarity problems . . . 41--48 S. L. Kalla and Vu Kim Tuan Asymptotic formulas for generalized elliptic-type integrals . . . . . . . . 49--55 G. Manzini and L. Margara Minimal residual algorithm and matrix--vector information . . . . . . . 57--63 E. Longo and G. Teppati and N. Bellomo Discretization of nonlinear models by Sinc collocation-interpolation methods 65--81 M. Mrozek Topological invariants, multivalued maps and computer assisted proofs in dynamics 83--104 K. K. Nambiar NuMachine and NuAlgebra . . . . . . . . 105--107 Xia Yang and Lansun Chen and Jufang Chen Permanence and positive periodic solution for the single-species nonautonomous delay diffusive models . . 109--116 J. I. Frankel Residual-minimization least-squares method for inverse heat conduction . . . 117--130
E. Galligani and V. Ruggiero and L. Zanni Splitting methods for constrained quadratic programs in data analysis . . 1--9 A. Karafiat Adaptive integration techniques for almost singular functions in the boundary element method . . . . . . . . 11--30 I. Dimov and U. Jaekel and H. Vereecken A numerical approach for determination of sources in transport equations . . . 31--42 S. Özyildirim Three-country trade relations: a discrete dynamic game approach . . . . . 43--56 I. Sadeh Optimal data compression algorithm . . . 57--72 Y.-F. Tang and L. Vázquez and F. Zhang and V. M. Pérez-García Symplectic methods for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . 73--83 A. Benczúr and Á. B. Novák and P. Z. Revesz Classical and weighted knowledgebase transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--98 I. Sadeh Polynomial approximation of images . . . 99--115 R. Echevarría The numerical computation of steady vortex pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--130
M. S. Gockenbach and W. W. Symes Hilbert class library: a library of abstract C++ classes for optimization and inversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 P. Bogacki and L. F. Shampine An efficient Runge--Kutta (4,5) pair . . 15--28 E. Bertolazzi Positive and conservative schemes for mass action kinetics . . . . . . . . . . 29--43 S. Latifi and P. K. Srimani Scheduling of independent jobs in star graph networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--55 P. J. Y. Wong and R. P. Agarwal Oscillation criteria for nonlinear partial difference equations with delays 57--86 S.-C. Fang and Soon-Yi Wu Solving min-max problems and linear semi-infinite programs . . . . . . . . . 87--93 R. P. Agarwal and S. S. Dragomir An application of Hayashi's inequality for differentiable functions . . . . . . 95--99 A. E. Köhler Polygonal figures and their form spaces I. 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P. K. Maini Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii Svetoslav Markov and Christian Ullrich Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv--xv I. Aradi and P. Érdi Signal generation and propagation in the olfactory bulb: Multicompartmental modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--27 D. A. Mac Dónaill and N. H. Buttimore The exploitation of assembly language instructions in biological text manipulation: I. Nucleotide sequences 29--38 N. H. Buttimore and D. A. Mac Dónaill The exploitation of assembly language instructions in biological text manipulation: II. Amino acid sequences 39--45 C. E. A. Grigorescu and K. B. Radev and V. Chesaru and T. Necsoiu and I. Pricop Thermal fluxes from the human body . . . 47--55 T. Kostova and J. Li Oscillations and stability due to juvenile competitive effects on adult fertility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--70 P. K. Maini Spatial and spatiotemporal pattern formation in generalised turing systems 71--77 H.-S. Niwa Mathematical model for the size distribution of fish schools . . . . . . 79--88 K. B. Radev and C. E. A. Grigorescu and K. Berovski and B. Logofatu Nonlinear signal processing in bioenergetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--91 A. G. Rigas and D. S. Tsitsis Spectral analysis techniques of stationary point processes: Extensions and applications to neurophysiological problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--99 Z. Zlatev and J. Fenger and L. Mortensen Relationships between emission sources and excess ozone concentrations . . . . 101--123
Anonymous List of contents and author index . . . iii--xii Kuo-Liang Chung and Wen-Ming Yan Vectorized algorithms for solving special tridiagonal systems . . . . . . 1--14 W. C. Rheinboldt MANPAK: a set of algorithms for computations on implicitly defined manifolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--28 B. Shi and Z. C. Wang and J. S. Yu Oscillation of nonlinear partial difference equations with delays . . . . 29--39 Wan Zhuang and Yubo Chen and Sui Sun Cheng Monotone methods for a discrete boundary problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49 Zhong-Zhi Bai and Jia-Chang Sun and De-Ren Wang A unified framework for the construction of various matrix multisplitting iterative methods for large sparse system of linear equations . . . . . . . 51--76 Chau-Jy Lin A systolic algorithm for solving dense linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--91 Jiann-Der Lee A fast geometrical approach to camera extrinsic parameters . . . . . . . . . . 93--100 Jingru Zhang and Lansun Chen Permanence and global stability for a two-species cooperative system with time delays in a two-patch environment . . . 101--108 Cheng-Chuang Hon and Yuh-Yuan Guh and Kou-Ming Wang and E. S. Lee Fuzzy multiple attributes and multiple hierarchical decision making . . . . . . 109--119 M. El-Gabali and S. Kalla Some generalised radiation field integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128 P. Glaister The efficient prediction of shallow water flows. Part 1: Theory . . . . . . 129--143
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v Eduardo L. Ortiz and T. J. Rivlin Approximation theory and applications. Preface: a collection of papers to commemorate the Cornelius Lanczos centennial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiv E. L. Ortiz and T. J. Rivlin Preface: a collection of papers to commemorate the Cornelius Lanczos centennial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiv A. Barrlund and H. Wallin and J. Karlsson Iteration of Möbius transformations and attractors on the real line . . . . . . 1--12 J. H. Bramble and J. E. Pasciak Iterative techniques for time dependent Stokes problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--30 C. Brezinski and M. Redivo-Zaglia and H. Sadok Breakdowns in the implementation of the Lánczos method for solving linear systems 31--44 C. Cabos Evaluation of matrix functions with the block Lanczos algorithm . . . . . . . . 45--57 C. Dagnino and P. Rabinowitz Product integration of singular integrands using quasi-interpolatory splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67 M. K. El-Daou and E. L. Ortiz The number of extrema of the error function of a class of methods for differential equations . . . . . . . . . 69--79 V. Fabian Simulated annealing simulated . . . . . 81--94 D. Funaro Some remarks about the collocation method on a modified Legendre grid . . . 95--103 W. Gautschi Moments in quadrature problems . . . . . 105--118 W. M. Y. Goh and J. Wimp The zero distribution of the Tricomi--Carlitz polynomials . . . . . . 119--127 A. Iserles and S. P. Nòrsett Biorthogonal polynomials and zero-mapping transformations . . . . . . 129--143 M. E. H. Ismail Fractional powers of a difference operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--150 D. S. Lubinsky The weighted $ L_p $-norms of orthonormal polynomials for Erd\Hos weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--163 G. Meinardus Some results in segmented approximation 165--180 S. Paszkowski Fast convergent quasipower series for some elementary and special functions 181--191 L. F. Pavarino and O. B. Widlund Iterative substructuring methods for spectral elements: Problems in three dimensions based on numerical quadrature 193--209 Y. Xu Commuting family of block Jacobi matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--222 T. J. Rivlin Some remarks on multivariate Chebyshev polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--228
G. Malajovich and J. P. Zubelli A fast and stable algorithm for splitting polynomials . . . . . . . . . 1--23 S. Guellal and P. Grimalt and Y. Cherruault Numerical study of Lorenz's equation by the Adomian method . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29 W. C. Rheinboldt Solving algebraically explicit DAEs with the MANPAK-manifold-algorithms . . . . . 31--43 J. F. Feng and B. Tirozzi Convergence theorems for the Kohonen feature mapping algorithms with VLRPs 45--63 M. G. El-Sheikh The justification of the truncation applied to homogeneous integral equations with Cauchy's kernel . . . . . 65--71 T. Nishikawa and M. Imai and S. Shimizu Nonlinear phenomena in a self-organizing model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79 S. Kalpakam and K. P. Sapna A lost sales inventory system with supply uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . 81--93 D. Kukolj and D. Popovic and M. Borota Applied unsupervised learning in model reduction of linear dynamic systems . . 95--103 P. Glaister An analysis of averaging procedures in a Riemann solver for compressible flows of a real gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--119 G. B. Savioli and P. M. Jacovkis and M. S. Bidner Stability analysis and numerical simulation of $1$-D and $2$-D radial flow towards an oil well . . . . . . . . 121--135
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Tijun Xiao and Jin Liang Semigroups arising from elastic systems with dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9 J. Li Quasioptimal uniformly convergent finite element methods for the elliptic boundary layer problem . . . . . . . . . 11--22 W. R. Ferng and Wen-Wei Lin and Chern-Shuh Wang The shift-inverted $J$-Lanczos algorithm for the numerical solutions of large sparse algebraic Riccati equations . . . 23--40 Shunian Zhang Stability analysis of delay difference systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--52 M. Frontini and L. Gotusso A discrete conservative model for the linear vibrating string and rod . . . . 53--65 T. E. Simos An extended numerov-type method for the numerical solution of the Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--78 B. D. Choi and J. W. Kim Discrete-time Geo$_1$, Geo$_2$ /G/1 retrial queueing systems with two types of calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--88 D. Yang Dynamic domain decomposition and grid modification for parabolic problems . . 89--103 J. López-Fenner and M. Pinto $ (h, k)$-trichotomies and asymptotics of nonautonomous difference systems . . 105--124 A. S. Belenky A noncooperative game on polyhedral sets 125--133
E. Bribiesca Measuring $2$-D shape compactness using the contact perimeter . . . . . . . . . 1--9 S. Kida and E. Trimandalawati and S. Ogawa Matrix expression of Hermite interpolation polynomials . . . . . . . 11--13 S. S. Dragomir and S. Wang An inequality of Ostrowski-Grüss' type and its applications to the estimation of error bounds for some special means and for some numerical quadrature rules 15--20 R. Ravindran and S. Sundar Mode locking for an externally excited droplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--33 A. Gelb and D. Gottlieb The resolution of the Gibbs phenomenon for ``spliced'' functions in one and two dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--58 L. M. Koci\'c and G. V. Milovanovi\'c Shape preserving approximations by polynomials and splines . . . . . . . . 59--97 V. V. Sirotkin The solution of singularly perturbed semilinear elliptic problems by iterative domain decomposition algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--116 S. Lo and C. Kee and P. Enge Algorithms for crossover point determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131
Anonymous List of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--ix Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x--xi K. S. Ruland and E. Y. Rodin The pickup and delivery problem: Faces and branch-and-cut algorithm . . . . . . 1--13 W. C. Hassenpflug Elliptic integrals and the Schwarz--Christoffel transformation . . 15--114 H. Cendra and R. Salthu and A. Torresi Finding nondegenerate Hopf bifurcation points for four-dimensional two-parametric systems . . . . . . . . . 115--124
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v V. S. Manoranjan and M. Olmos Gomez A two-step Jacobi-type iterative method 1--9 Hai-Wei Sun and R. H. Chan and Qian-Shun Chang A note on the convergence of the two-grid method for Toeplitz systems . . 11--18 R. Medina The asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a Volterra difference equation . . . 19--26 Yixiang Chen Stone duality and representation of stable domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--41 V. Y. Pan and Y. Yu and C. Stewart Algebraic and numerical techniques for the computation of matrix determinants 43--70 A. Kharab Use of multiple sheets for the solution of a three-dimensional transient heat conduction problem . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79 P. Lau and C. W. Chan An enhanced weighted fuzzy reasoning algorithm for engineering applications 81--87 Xian Wu and Yu-Guang Xu New generalizations of Browder's variational inequalities and the Ky Fan minimax inequality . . . . . . . . . . . 89--96 Zongfang Zhou and Y. Shi An ODE method of solving nonlinear programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102 B. Stilman Network languages for concurrent multiagent systems . . . . . . . . . . . 103--136
I. Antoniou and Yu. Kuperin and I. Prigogine Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xvi T. Petrosky and I. Prigogine The extension of classical dynamics for unstable Hamiltonian systems . . . . . . 1--44 P. G. Akishin and I. V. Puzynin and S. I. Vinitsky A hybrid numerical method for analysis of dynamics of the classical Hamiltonian systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--73 L. Dmitrieva and M. Khlabystova Scheme of constructing soliton-type solutions of the $ (2 + 1)$-dimensional Harry Dym equation . . . . . . . . . . . 75--93 O. F. Bandtlow and I. Antoniou and Z. Suchanecki Resonances of dynamical systems and Fredholm--Riesz operators on rigged Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102 D. J. Driebe Jordan blocks in a one-dimensional Markov map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109 S. V. Gonchenko and L. P. Shil'nikov and O. V. Sten'kin and D. V. Turaev Bifurcations of systems with structurally unstable homoclinic orbits and moduli of $ \omega $-equivalence . . 111--142 A. A. Pokrovski Lax--Phillips theory for sound waves scattering by thin infinite elastic planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--171 L. P. Shil'nikov and D. V. Turaev Simple bifurcations leading to hyperbolic attractors . . . . . . . . . 173--193 S. V. Gonchenko and L. P. Shil'nikov and D. V. Turaev Quasiattractors and homoclinic tangencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--227 V. V. Bykov One mechanism of appearance of a spiral quasiattractor involving heteroclinic contours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--244 A. L. Shil'nikov Homoclinic phenomena in laser models . . 245--251 L. A. Belyakov and L. Yu. Glebsky and L. M. Lerman Abundance of stable stationary localized solutions to the generalized $1$D Swift--Hohenberg equation . . . . . . . 253--266 A. Arutyunov and N. Bobylev and S. Korovin One remark to Ekeland's variational principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--271 S. V. Emelyanov and S. K. Korovin Theory of nonlinear feedback under uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--323 A. P. Krishchenko Estimations of domains with cycles . . . 325--332 A. Babloyantz and N. A. Bobylev and S. K. Korovin and A. P. Nosov Approximating of unstable cycle in nonlinear autonomous systems . . . . . . 333--354 A. Babloyantz and A. P. Krishchenko and A. Nosov Analysis and stabilization of nonlinear chaotic systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--368 N. A. Magnitskii Stabilization of unstable periodic orbits of chaotic maps . . . . . . . . . 369--372 I. Antoniou and V. Basios and F. Bosco Probabilistic control of Chaos: Chaotic maps under control . . . . . . . . . . . 373--389 R. Willox and I. Antoniou and J. Levitan Decay of correlations and control of chaotic billiards . . . . . . . . . . . 391--398
I. Antoniou and Yu. Kuperin and I. Prigogine Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xvi I. Antoniou and L. Dmitrieva and Yu. Kuperin and Yu. Melnikov Resonances and the extension of dynamics to rigged Hilbert space . . . . . . . . 399--425 A. Bohm and M. Gadella and S. Maxson Extending the stationary quantum mechanics of being to a nonstationary quantum theory of becoming and decaying 427--466 K. Gustafson Operator spectral states . . . . . . . . 467--508 I. Antoniou and Z. Suchanecki Quantum systems with diagonal singularity: Their logic and intrinsic irreversibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--531 M. Rosenberg and T. Petrosky Microscopic nonequilibrium structure in quantum fields and $H$-functions . . . . 533--557 Yu. A. Kuperin and S. B. Levin and Yu. B. Melnikov and E. A. Yarevsky Application of extension theory to antiproton-nucleon systems with continuous set of resonances in annihilation channel . . . . . . . . . . 559--570 L. A. Dmitrieva and Yu. A. Kuperin and G. E. Rudin Extended class of Dubrovin's equations related to the one-dimensional quantum three-body problem . . . . . . . . . . . 571--585 R. V. Romanov and G. E. Rudin Scattering on $p$-adic graphs . . . . . 587--597 Yu. A. Kuperin and S. B. Levin and Yu. B. Melnikov and B. S. Pavlov Quantum Lorentz gas: Effective equations and spectral analysis . . . . . . . . . 599--612 P. G. Akishin and F. Bosco and S. I. Vinitsky Helmholtz problem for plane periodical structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613--625 I. Antoniou and V. A. Il'in The uniform over the whole line $R$ estimates of spectral expansions related to the selfadjoint extensions of the Hill operator and of the Schrödinger operator with a bounded and measurable potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627--632 V. A. Il'in and L. V. Kritskov Some properties of spectral expansions related to the one-dimensional Stark effect Hamiltonian . . . . . . . . . . . 633--640 V. A. Il'in How to express basis conditions and conditions for the equiconvergence with trigonometric series of expansions related to non-self-adjoint differential operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641--647 E. Moiseev Spectral characteristics of some nonlocal boundary-value problems . . . . 649--655
I. Antoniou and Yu. Kuperin and I. Prigogine Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xvi K. Mardanov and Yu. Pis'mak and A. Potyagailo General properties of realistic neural network dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 657--666 V. V. Ivanov and Yu. M. Itkis and B. Purevdorj and I. V. Puzynin and S. I. Vinitsky Dynamics of realistic neural network with time-dependent external signal . . 667--675 A. Yu. Bonushkina and V. V. Ivanov and P. V. Zrelov Multivariate data analysis based on the $ \omega^k_n$-criteria and multilayer perceptron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677--685 V. Basios and A. Yu. Bonushkina and V. V. Ivanov A method for approximating one-dimensional functions . . . . . . . 687--693 M. P. Bussa and L. Fava and L. Ferrero and A. Grasso and V. V. Ivanov and I. V. Kisel and E. V. Konotopskaya and G. B. Pontecorvo Application of a cellular automaton for recognition of straight tracks in the spectrometer DISTO . . . . . . . . . . . 695--701 V. V. Ivanov and P. V. Zrelov Nonparametric integral statistics $ \omega^k_n = n^{k2} \int^\infty_{- \infty } [S_n(x) - F(x)]^k \, d F(x) $: Main properties and applications . . . . 703--726 V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky and E. A. Derishev and S. A. Litvak and I. A. Shereshevsky and S. Tasaki Nonstationary dressed states and effects of decay in nonadiabatic crossing of decaying levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--750 I. E. Antoniou and V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky and Yu. M. Mironov and I. A. Shereshevsky Absolute and convective superradiance: Dynamics and macroscopic quantum fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751--771 V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky and E. R. Golubyatnikova Mode instability and nonlinear superradiance phenomena in open Fabry--Perot cavity . . . . . . . . . . 773--793 V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky and A. A. Belyanin Inhibited spontaneous emission and electromagnetic instability of an atom in the near zone from the surface of an active medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795--805 V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky and V. A. Kukushkin and Yu. M. Mironov and V. Yu. Zaitsev Effects of the spatial dispersion and instabilities in the wave electrodynamics of weakly ionized gases 807--844 A. A. Belyanin and V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky Cooperative coherent phenomena in annihilating electron-positron and electron-hole plasmas in a strong magnetic field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845--880 L. A. Melnikov and V. L. Derbov and I. V. Veshneva and A. I. Konukhov Numerical studies of beam and pulse propagation in lasers and nonlinear media: Transverse pattern dynamics and nonparaxial effects . . . . . . . . . . 881--909 K. A. Mardanov and Yu. M. Pismak and V. L. Rapoport Mathematical modelling of pirimidine photodimerization in polynucleotides . . 911--922
Chia-Ming Chang and Chien-Ming Chen and Chung-Ta King Using integer linear programming for instruction scheduling and register allocation in multi-issue processors . . 1--14 K. S. Kang and D. Y. Kwak Convergence estimates for multigrid algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--22 M. S. Korlie and D. Greenspan Particle simulation of carbon dioxide bubbles in water . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--37 P. K. Jana and B. P. Sinha Fast parallel algorithms for forecasting 39--49 I. Gavrea and H. H. Gonska and D. P. Kacsó Variation on Butzer's problem: Characterization of the solutions . . . 51--64 N. Kuchkina and L. Shaikhet Optimal control problem for nonlinear stochastic difference second kind volterra equations . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73 M. L. Baart and M. A. Coetzee Transfinite interpolation of conic triangles using quadric patches . . . . 75--85 R. K. Raina and M. Bolia The decompositional structure of a generalized hypergeometric transformation of convolution type . . . 87--93 A. E. Köhler De triangularitate quadranguli or symmetry regions and symmetry centroids of geometric figures . . . . . . . . . . 95--121 M. A. Amer Iterative solutions of parameter-dependent nonlinear equations of Hammerstein type . . . . . . . . . . 123--129 Xie Ping Ding General algorithm of solutions for nonlinear variational inequalities in Banach space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--137
J. Kormos and G. Pap Nearly unstable multidimensional AR processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7 A. Benczúr and C. K. Quang and T. Nikovits Some constraints assuring serializability in multidatabases . . . 9--21 I. Fazekas and A. G. Kukush Asymptotic properties of an estimator in nonlinear functional errors-in-variables models with dependent error terms . . . 23--39 W. W. Koczkodaj and M. Orlowski An orthogonal basis for computing a consistent approximation to a pairwise comparisons matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 41--47 M. Petkovi\'c and S. Ili\'c and S. Trickovi\'c A family of simultaneous zero-finding methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--59 R. P. Agarwal and Fu-Hsiang Wong and Shiueh-Ling Yu Positive solutions of integro-differential inequalities . . . 61--69 J. Feng and B. Tirozzi An analysis on neural dynamics with saturated sigmoidal functions . . . . . 71--99 A. Campo and L. 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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv--xv L. W. Beineke Biplanar Graphs: a Survey . . . . . . . 1--8 B. Bollobás and I. Leader An Erd\Hos--Ko--Rado Theorem For Signed Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--13 G. Chartrand and S. Tian Distance in Digraphs . . . . . . . . . . 15--23 S. Dutt and J. P. Hayes A Local-Sparing Design Methodology for Fault-Tolerant Multiprocessorsa . . . . 25--50 N. Graham and F. Harary Some Small Sized Spanning Subgraphs of a Hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--57 F. Harary and O. R. Oellermann The Irregularity Cost of a Graph . . . . 59--63 H. Hevia Transitional Values of Graphs . . . . . 65--79 E. B. Jarrett Edge Rotation and Edge Slide Distance Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87 H. J. Khamis and T. A. McKee Chordal Graph Models of Contingency Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--97 M. Lewinter and W. Widulski Hyper-Hamilton Laceable and Caterpillar-Spannable Product Graphs . . 99--104 P. G. Mezey Chirality Measures and Graph Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--112 E. M. Palmer The Hidden Algorithm of Ore's Theorem on Hamiltonian Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119 R. C. Read Graph Theory and the Amateur Cryptographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--127
Anonymous List of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--x Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi--xii Z. W. Trazaska State-space/descriptor models and asymptotic behavior of continuous-time positive control systems . . . . . . . . 1--10 Narn-Yih Lee and Tzonelih Hwang Remarks on Change--Buehrer access control scheme in a hierarchy . . . . . 11--12 B. K.-S. Cheung and A. Langevin and H. Delmaire Coupling genetic algorithm with a grid search method to solve mixed integer nonlinear programming problems . . . . . 13--23 L. E. Garey and C. J. Gladwin and R. E. Shaw An approximate solution for a system with a symmetric matrix . . . . . . . . 25--31 Zhenyu Huang A new convergence result for fixed-point iteration in bounded interval of $ R^n $ 33--36 L. Brutman and D. Toledano An extremal problem of Erd\Hos in interpolation theory . . . . . . . . . . 37--47 L. Jódar and E. Defez Analytic-numerical solutions with a priori error bounds for time-dependent mixed partial differential problems . . 49--59 V. Ayala and A. K. Hacibekiro\uglu Local observability of invariant dynamics on compact Lie groups with square integrable output map functions 61--70 I. Bonzani Solution of nonlinear evolution problems by parallelized collocation-interpolation methods . . . 71--79 M. A. Amer Iterative and approximate solutions of general parameter dependent nonlinear operator equations in Hilbert spaces . . 81--88 Baoding Liu Dependent-chance programming: a class of stochastic optimization . . . . . . . . 89--104 C.-K. Cho and Y. Kwon and S. Kang Estimation of soil water distribution: Identifiability and observation design 105--120 S. C. Nandy and G. N. Nandakumar and B. B. Bhattacharya Efficient algorithms for single- and two-layer linear placement of parallel graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--135 Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v C. Cercignani and R. Illner Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii G. A. Bird Recent advances and current challenges for DSMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 K. Aoki and Y. Sone and Y. Waniguchi A rarefied gas flow induced by a temperature field: Numerical analysis of the flow between two coaxial elliptic cylinders with different uniform temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--28 H. Babovsky Discretization and numerical schemes for steady kinetic model equations . . . . . 29--40 S. Stefanov and C. Cercignani Monte Carlo simulation of the propagation of a disturbance in the channel flow of a rarefied gas . . . . . 41--53 C. Buet and S. Cordier and P. Degond Regularized Boltzmann operators . . . . 55--74 S. M. Deshpande and P. S. Kulkarni and A. K. Ghosh New developments in kinetic schemes . . 75--93 R. Di Lisio and E. Grenier and M. Pulvirenti The convergence of the SPH method . . . 95--102 A. Frezzotti Molecular dynamics and Enskog theory calculation of shock profiles in a dense hard sphere gas . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--112 M. S. Ivanov and S. F. Gimelshein and G. N. Markelov Statistical simulation of the transition between regular and Mach reflection in steady flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--125 A. Klar Asymptotic analysis and coupling conditions for kinetic and hydrodynamic equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137 K. Koura Improved null-collision technique in the direct simulation Monte Carlo method: Application to vibrational relaxation of nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--154 W. J. Morokoff and A. Kersch A comparison of scattering angle models 155--164 S. Rjasanow and W. Wagner A generalized collision mechanism for stochastic particle schemes approximating Boltzmann-type equations 165--178 J. Struckmeier Simulation of boundary value problems for the Boltzmann equation . . . . . . . 179--192 S. Takata and Y. Sone and D. Lhuillier and M. Wakabayashi Evaporation from or condensation onto a sphere: Numerical analysis of the Boltzmann equation for hard-sphere molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--214 F. G. Tcheremissine Conservative evaluation of Boltzmann collision integral in discrete ordinates approximation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--221
S. Zhan and D. A. Murio Identification of parameters in one-dimensional IHCP . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 M. Oh and V. I. Shin and Y. Lee and U. J. Choi Suboptimal discrete filters for stochastic systems with different types of observations . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--27 B. Chanane Optimal control of nonlinear systems: a recursive approach . . . . . . . . . . . 29--33 R. Sacco and M. Stynes Finite element methods for convection--diffusion problems using exponential splines on triangles . . . . 35--45 S. Nath and P. R. Sengupta and L. Debnath Magneto-thermoelastic surface waves in micropolar elastic media . . . . . . . . 47--55 J. Li and I. M. Navon Uniformly convergent finite element methods for singularly perturbed elliptic boundary value problems I: Reaction--diffusion Type . . . . . . . . 57--70 P. K. Jana and B. P. Sinha Fast parallel algorithms for Graeffe's root squaring technique . . . . . . . . 71--80 D. O'Regan Singular differential equations with linear and nonlinear boundary conditions 81--97 D. Li and D. Cheung and Xuemei Shi and V. Ng Uncertainty reasoning based on cloud models in controllers . . . . . . . . . 99--123 V. Y. Pan New fast algorithms for polynomial interpolation and evaluation on the Chebyshev node set . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129 R. Echevarría The numerical solution of some elliptic nonscalar problems with nonlinear discontinuities . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--147