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Volume 1, Number 1, June, 1966J. Ortega Some thoughts on numerical analysis . . ??
J. F. Traub Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
B. N. Parlett Eigenvalues, anyone? . . . . . . . . . . 7--8 J. F. Traub Examination questions: qualifying examination: numerical analysis . . . . 9--11 C. B. Moler and J. N. Lyness Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13
J. F. Traub Numerical analysis: approximation or estimation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
N. A. Clark and W. J. Cody and K. E. Hillstrom and E. A. Thieleker Performance statistics of the Fortran IV (H) library for the IBM System/360 . . . ?? J. F. Traub Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Bruno F. W. Witte Comparative tabulations of test problems and test results for mathematical computer routines . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Cleve Moler Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
W. Kahan Four aphorisms concerning floating point hardware design . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? J. N. Lyness Some interesting quadrature tests . . . ?? Cleve Moler Purdue University: numerical analysis qualifying examination . . . . . . . . . ??
Eldon Hansen An illustrative example in error analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Charles L. Lawson Survey of computer methods for fitting curves to discrete data or approximating continuous functions . . . . . . . . . . ?? C. B. Moler Excerpts from Ph.D. comprehensive examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Frank Stenger A trap in computations . . . . . . . . . 2--2 J. F. Traub State of the art in calculation of polynomial zeros . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
C. B. Moler More on the sphere in the corner . . . . 7--7 C. B. Moler Purdue University: numerical analysis qualifying examination . . . . . . . . . 11--13 Werner C. Rheinboldt Nonlinear systems of equations . . . . . 15--21 Cleve B. Moler State of the art in matrix computations 22--28
William L. Morris On counting $n$-ary compositions . . . . 7--8 B. N. Parlett Notes on the number of multiplications required to form the product of two $N \times N$ matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12 C. B. Moler Ph.D. qualifying examination: numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--16
L. Richard Turner Difficulty in sin/cos Routine . . . . . 13--13 R. L. Ashenhurst Evaluation and certification project at Argonne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14 Karl H. Usow SIGNUM subroutine certification committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--18 Karl H. Usow and Lloyd D. Fosdick Guidelines for evaluating an algorithm for publication . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20 Richard J. Hanson Certifying linear equation solvers . . . 21--29 J. Casaletto and M. Pickett and J. Rice A comparison of some numerical integration programs . . . . . . . . . . 30--40
Eldon Hansen Repeated additions . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
K. H. Usow Certification Bibliography . . . . . . . 14--15 G. E. Forsythe Stanford exam question . . . . . . . . . 16--16 A. E. Oldehoeft and S. D. Conte Initial experiences with a program to teach numerical methods . . . . . . . . 17--20
K. A. Redish and W. A. Ward Environment enquiries for numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--15 W. J. Cody Desirable Hardware Characteristics for Scientific Computation . . . . . . . . . 16--31
K. A. Redish and W. A. Ward Summary of ``Eigenvalue & Eigenvector Routines in the McMaster Program Library'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9 Paul S. Jensen A matrix problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--10 Anonymous Stanford University Computer Science Department Ph.D. qualifying exam: numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
W. Kahan A Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6 Fred T. Krogh A plea for tolerance in the evaluation of numerical methods and mathematical software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
W. Kahan In memoriam: Hirondo Kuki: Apr. 25, 1925--Dec. 28, 1971 . . . . . . . . . . 8--10 William Knight A problem by Jensen . . . . . . . . . . 11--12 D. Kershaw The explicit factorization of two commonly occurring matrices . . . . . . 13--13 F. N. Fritsch SIGNUM 1971 nonacademic numerical mathematics survey: a brief summary of responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--18 F. N. Fritsch Toward a definition of the term numerical mathematician . . . . . . . . 19--19 Charles B. Dunham On hardware for scientific computation 20--20
K. K. Gupta Applications oriented algorithms . . . . 22--23
Cleve Moler A memory of George Forsythe . . . . . . 8--9 C. L. Lawson A syntax for solving linear equations 14--15 Paul J. Nikolai Fast eigenvalue calculations on the CDC 6000--7000 computers . . . . . . . . . . 16--18 Garry J. Tee A simple example of an ill-conditioned matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20 William E. Davis and Hatem M. Khalil Algorithm and series expansion for the F distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23 L. F. Shampine and M. K. Gordon Some numerical experiments with DIFSUB 24--26 Fred T. Krogh Opinions on matters connected with the evaluation of programs and methods for integrating ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--48
J. C. Butcher On step control criteria . . . . . . . . 15--15 G. Bjurel and B. Lindberg Methods for stiff differential equations 16--17
B. Ford The Nottingham Algorithms Group (NAG) project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21 Gerhard Zielke A new test matrix for inverting matrices 22--23 Fred W. Dorr and Cleve B. Moler Roundoff error on the CDC 6600/7600 computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--26 John R. Rice An educational adaptive quadrature algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--41
C. L. Lawson From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Anonymous Supplementary Election Information . . . 1--2 Alan Feldstein Voting Instructions . . . . . . . . . . 2--2 John Radbill Local SIGNUMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2 Bo Einarsson IFIP Working Group on Numerical Program Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--2 Anonymous Conference Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 3--3 M. J. D. Powell The Mathematical Software Conference at Loughborough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4 Anonymous Papers presented at the Loughborough Mathematical Software Conference . . . . 4--5 Anonymous AMS Symposium on the Complexity of the Real Computational Process . . . . . . . 5--5 Edward W. Ng AMS Sessions on Special Functions: Evanston, IL, April 27--28, 1973 . . . . 5--5 Anonymous Papers presented at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, Austin, Texas, April 30--May 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6 Anonymous Symposium on Complexity of Sequential and Parallel Numerical Algorithms, Carnegie-Mellon University, May 16-18, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7 Anonymous National Computer Conference, New York, June 4--8, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7 Anonymous Conference on Computational Problems in Statistics, Univ. of Essex, England, July 25--26, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8 Anonymous ACM 73 National Conference, Atlanta, August 27--29, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . 8--8 Anonymous 8th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Stanford Univ., August 27--31, 1973 . . . . . . . 8--8 Anonymous Seminar on Generalized Inverses and Applications, The Mathematics Research Center University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 8--10, 1973 . . . . . . . . . . 8--8 Anonymous SIAM Fall Meeting, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, October 8--10, 1973 . . . . 9--9 Anonymous Conference on Research in Mathematics, Univ. of Reading, England, January 7--8, 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Anonymous A Symposium on Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimization, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England, January 10--11, 1974 . . . . . 9--9 Anonymous Computer Science Conference, Detroit Hilton, February 12--14, 1974 . . . . . 9--9 Anonymous International Conference on Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics, Univ. of Texas, Austin, September 23--25, 1973 . . . . . . . . . 9--9 Anonymous IFIP Congress 74 --- Call for Papers . . 10--10 Anonymous Swedish Mathematical Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11 Herman Burstein Subroutines for Probability Functions 11--11 O. P. Roberts Errata: SIGNUM Newsletter 8(2) 32 April (1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--11
Richard J. Hanson Is the fast Givens transformation really fast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7 T. Aird and D. Dodson and E. Houstis and J. Rice Statistics on the Use of Mathematical Subroutines from a Computer Center Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9 Fred N. Fritsch Profile on the numerical mathematics section of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10 A. R. Curtis Stiff ordinary differential equation test problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12 R. Leonard Brown Recursive calculation of corrector coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13 T. E. Hull Would you believe structured Fortran? 13--16 R. J. Hanson and F. T. Krogh and C. L. Lawson Improving the efficiency of portable software for linear algebra . . . . . . 16--16
Anthony F. Gangi and James N. Shapiro A modified Hotelling deflation scheme for inverting matrices . . . . . . . . . 10--11 Gerhard Zielke Generalization of Tee's matrix . . . . . 11--12
Ellis Horowitz Review of ``Complexity of Sequential and Parallel Numerical Algorithms by J. F. Traub'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--21 C. L. Lawson Proposed standard subprograms for basic linear algebraic operations . . . . . . 21--22 Garry J. Tee The eigenvectors of Zielke's matrices 23--23 Anonymous Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Technical communications . . . . . . . . ??
Byron L. Ehle Step control criteria for stiff equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
David G. Carta Help!!: The Lost Reference: (A Modified Newton Method for Square Roots) . . . . 9--9 Frank Engel, Jr. Correspondence on Fortran standardization . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10 I. Farkas A conjecture in numerical linear algebra 10--11 Thomas J. Aird and Edward L. Battiste and Nancy E. Bosten and Henry L. Darilek and Walton C. Gregory Name standardization and value specification for machine dependent constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13 Cleve Moler Cramer's rule on 2-by-2 systems . . . . 13--14
Imre Farkas Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14 A. Tweedale and C. Chan On the design of a user interface to large FORTRAN subroutine packages under IBM 360/370 OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--17 E. L. Battiste Mathematical software patterns . . . . . 17--20 S. Charmonman and J. L. Wagener On structured programming in FORTRAN . . 21--23
John Bolstad A proposed classification scheme for computer program libraries . . . . . . . 32--39 G. W. Stewart An inverse perturbation theorem for the linear least squares problem . . . . . . 39--40 James M. Boyle Note on ``The design of a user interface to large Fortran subroutine packages under IBM 360/370 OS'' . . . . . . . . . 40--40 M. K. Gordon and L. F. Shampine Typical problems for stiff differential equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 C. A. Oster and R. L. Richardson Two dimensional Newton--Raphson and a zero Jacobian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42 I. Tang An algorithm for a system of linear equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Larry D. Bertholf Numerical methods for nonlinear stress wave propagation (abstract) . . . . . . 4--4 Niel K. Madsen The method of lines for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . 5--7 Hans M. Ruppel Recent developments in numerical techniques for treating material interfaces (abstract) . . . . . . . . . 8--10 L. L. Edwards and R. B. Hickman and J. K. Hobson and T. C. Michels CHAMP code calculations of surface and subsurface explosions (abstract) . . . . 11--12 Charles E. Needham and Richard E. Durrett and Daniel A. Matuska AFWL hydrocode development parallel techniques: fluid dynamics (abstract) 13--14 Daniel A. Matuska and Charles E. Needham and Richard E. Durrett The AFWL HULL code-codes for large problems in fluid dynamics . . . . . . . 15--17 L. F. Shampine and R. J. Thompson An efficient method for the numerical solution of one-phase Stefan problems (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Björn Engquist and Tom Smedsaas DCG: a system for automatic code generation for hyperbolic problems (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22 W. E. Johnson The splitting concept applied to the OIL family of codes (abstract) . . . . . . . 23--23 Harvey S. Price Application of finite element methods to solving immiscible displacement problems with sharp fronts (abstract) . . . . . . 24--24 H. Lomax and K. Stevens Software for computers with parallel or pipeline architecture (abstract) . . . . 25--25 Stanley C. Eisenstat and Andrew H. Sherman Efficient implementation of sparse nonsymmetric Gaussian elimination without pivoting (abstract) . . . . . . 26--29 Paul Swarztrauber and Roland Sweet Efficient FORTRAN subprograms for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations (abstract) . . . 30--30 Rondall E. Jones The QMESH mesh generation package (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--34 James C. Cavendish and James A. Wixom Finite element mesh generation for planar and shell type structures (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--37 Arne Sundström and Lars Westerling ENEP: an interactive program for solving one-dimensional continuum mechanical problems using a graphic terminal (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39 S. J. Polak and N. V. Philips TEDDY2: a program package for $2$D parabolic composite region problems (abstract) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42 Anonymous Proceedings of the SIGNUM Meeting on Software for Partial Differential Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. C. Nash Numerical software for minicomputers . . 40--41 W. R. Knight Draft proposed ANS FORTRAN . . . . . . . 41--43 William R. Knight A letter to the editor concerning draft proposed ANS FORTRAN . . . . . . . . . . 41--43 Robert B. Kelman Factors limiting academic participation in the development of large mathematical software packages . . . . . . . . . . . 43--43 James W. Daniel and Andrew J. Martin Code available for boundary-value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44 Charles B. Dunham Background of users of scientific computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--44 Charles B. Dunham Chebyshev approximation with non-continuous weight functions . . . . 44--44 W. Gander Transfer of numerical programs . . . . . 45--45 Karl Strehmel A new class of multistep methods for systems of first order differential equations with exponential adaptation 46--47 I. Farkas ``A conjecture in numerical linear algebra'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--47
E. Edberg and J. Johansson An annotated bibliography on mathematical software and related topics 9--16
Frederic N. Ris A Unified Decimal Floating-Point Architecture for the Support of High-Level Languages . . . . . . . . . . 18--23 A. C. Hindmarsh and G. D. Byrne On the use of rank-one updates in the solution of stiff systems of ordinary differential equations . . . . . . . . . 23--27 D. D. Warner A note on variable order strategies for differential equation solvers . . . . . 27--28 J. R. Rice Some data and observations on research publication in the areas of numerical computation and programming languages and systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
J. E. Dennis and R. A. Tapia Supplementary terminology for nonlinear iterative methods . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5 John R. Rice Algorithmic progress in solving partial differential equations . . . . . . . . . 6--10 C. P. Huang Note on the pre-conditioning of matrices 11--12 A. C. Hindmarsh Note on the startup of ODE solvers . . . 12--13
B. Ford and J. K. Reid and B. T. Smith Three proposed amendments to the draft proposed ANS FORTRAN Standard . . . . . 18--20
Charles B. Dunham Publication of numerical algorithms . . 8--8
William R. Knight A disquieting output error . . . . . . . 15--15 D. J. Evans and M. Hatzopoulos A note on the construction of test matrices with equal eigenvalues . . . . 15--16
Richard J. Hanson TIPS for organizing a local ACM-SIGNUM group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20 Karl Strehmel A new algorithm for the numerical solution of ordinary stiff differential equations of the $n$-th order . . . . . 20--22 Brian Ford and Janet Bentley The NAG Library ``machine'' . . . . . . 23--24, 3
John A. Wisniewski Some experiments with computing the complex absolute value . . . . . . . . . 11--12 Marvin J. Goldstein Further decomposition of the pseudoinverse and eigensystem of a Hermitian persymmetric matrix . . . . . 12--13 Phyllis A. Fox PORT: a portable subroutine library . . 14--15
Elise de Doncker An adaptive extrapolation algorithm for automatic integration . . . . . . . . . 12--18 Virginia Klema ROSEPACK: RObust Statistics Estimation PACKage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Brian Ford Parameterization of the environment for transportable numerical software . . . . 20--23
Elizabeth Cuthill and Kenton Meals MACSYMA, a resource for the Navy Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15 C. P. Huang On the triangularization of arbitrary matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17 Bo Einarsson Survey of Scandinavian activities in numerical software . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
J. Y. Wang The Evaluation of Periodic Functions with Large Input Arguments . . . . . . . 7--8 Gerhard Zielke Iterative refinement of generalized matrix inverses now practicable . . . . 9--10 Gerhard Zielke Test matrices for generalized inverses 10--12
Christian H. Reinsch Principles and Preferences for Computer Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--27 Anonymous Proceedings of the SIGNUM conference on the programming environment for development of numerical software . . . 28--117 N. L. Schryer UNIX\TM as an Environment for Producing Numerical Software . . . . . . . . . . . 49--52
S. I. Feldman Comments on the IFIP working group 2.5 proposal on ``Parameterization of the Environment for Transportable Numerical Software'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--20 D. J. Evans and M. Hatzopoulos A comparison of optimal scaling and preconditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--22 R. D. Skeel An incomplete list of better FORTRAN codes for IVPS in ODES . . . . . . . . . 22--24
Robert Todd Gregory Error-free computation with finite number systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--16 R. F. Warming and Richard M. Beam Factored, $A$-stable, linear multistep methods --- an alternative to the method of lines for multidimensions . . . . . . 17--19
J. R. Rice and C. W. Gear and J. Ortega and B. Parlett and M. Schultz and L. F. Shampine and P. Wolfe and J. F. Traub Numerical computation: its nature and research directions . . . . . . . . . . 1--48 Jerome Coonen and William Kahan and John Palmer and Tom Pittman and David Stevenson A Proposed Standard for Binary Floating Point Arithmetic: Draft 5.11 . . . . . . 4--12 W. Kahan and J. Palmer On a Proposed Floating-Point Standard 13--21 Bob Fraley and Steve Walther Proposal to Eliminate Denormalized Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--23 Mary Payne and William Strecker Draft Proposal for a Binary Normalized Floating Point Standard . . . . . . . . 24--28 W. J. Cody Impact of The Proposed IEEE Floating Point Standard on Numerical Software . . 29--30 Stuart I. Feldman The Impact of the Proposed Standard for Floating Point Arithmetic on Languages and Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--32
John Reid Functions for Manipulating Floating-Point Numbers . . . . . . . . . 11--13
C. W. Gear and J. M. Ortega and B. Parlett and J. R. Rice and M. Schultz and L. F. Shampine and P. Wolfe Numerical Computation: A Report on Past, Present, and Future Research . . . . . . 1--48
G. J. Tee Khachian's efficient algorithm for linear inequalities and linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15 John Reid Complex double precision in association with Fortran 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Paul E. Saylor Numerical methods, large codes, and programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--17 W. J. Cody Software basics for computational mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--29 R. E. Moore Microprogrammed interval arithmetic . . 30--30
Robert C. Ward and Gene H. Golub Numerical linear algebra . . . . . . . . 9--26 Kris Stewart The microcomputer as a tool in numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--27 D. J. Evans An implicit matrix inversion process . . 28--30
Charles B. Dunham Cramer's rule reconsidered or equilibration desirable . . . . . . . . 9--9 Alan C. Hindmarsh LSODE and LSODI, two new initial value ordinary differential equation solvers 10--11 J. Seehusen Algorithm for generating a step matrix by permutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15 Jorge J. More and Richard A. Tapia and Margaret H. Wright Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--26
G. W. Stewart Matrix calculations on hand-held calculators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--13 J. C. Nash Function minimization on special computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17 E. L. Battiste Scientific computations using micro-computers . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--22 John R. Rice Is mathematical software a legitimate research area? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--25 M. D. Francis Error control in the numerical inversion of the eigenvector matrix . . . . . . . 26--26
Roy L. Streit Solution of large Hermitian eigenproblems on virtual and cache memory computers . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--7 Danny C. Sorensen An example concerning quasi-Newton estimation of a sparse Hessian . . . . . 8--10 Seppo Linnainmaa Combatting the effects of underflow and overflow in determining real roots of polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16 Alan George and Esmond Ng A brief description of SPARSPAK Waterloo sparse linear equations package . . . . 17--20 David K. Kahaner BASIC for numerical quadrature . . . . . 21--24
Gerhard Zielke Generalizations of a Rutishauser test matrix with exact Moore--Penrose inverses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8 S. C. Eisenstat and J. W. Lewis Band arrays in Fortran: an elegant representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--11 Robert G. Voigt Summary of research activity at ICASE 12--13 John R. Rice Survey on programming language facilities for numerical computation . . 14--20
W. Kahan The Programming Environment's Contribution to Program Robustness . . . 10 S. McKee University Consortium for Industrial Numerical Analysis (UCINA) . . . . . . . 16--19 Clifford Addison Summary of the Illinois--Toronto OlympiODE test results . . . . . . . . . 19--22
A. K. Cline A course on mathematical software . . . 19--23
L. F. Shampine and L. S. Baca Automatic recognition of non-stiffness 20--21 Iain Duff and Roger Grimes and John Lewis and Bill Poole Sparse matrix test problems . . . . . . 22--22 Bush Jones A note on Aitken's $\delta^2$ technique 23--23 Kenneth W. Dritz Six language extensions to enhance the portability of mathematical software written in PL/I: background and justification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
W. H. Vandevender and K. H. Haskell The SLATEC mathematical subroutine library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--21 J. L. Phillips and W. G. Poole Numerical mathematics at Boeing computer services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--22
Ronald F. Boisvert and Sally E. Howe and David K. Kahaner The GAMS classification scheme for mathematical and statistical software 10--18 Mary H. Payne and Robert N. Hanek Radian Reduction for Trigonometric Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24 Robert Paul Corbett Enhanced arithmetic for Fortran . . . . 24--28
Mary H. Payne and Robert N. Hanek Degree Reduction for Trigonometric Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--19 Clive Temperton Cray 1 v. Cyber 205: some comparisons 20--21 W. S. Brown and K. W. Fong and B. Ford Issues in license agreements for numerical program libraries . . . . . . 21--23 R. M. Corless and R. B. Simpson An ``off-the-shelf'' dynamic mesh capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--24
John Gregg Lewis Numerical experiments with SPARSPAK . . 12--22
B. T. Smith Tools, methods and languages for scientific and engineering computation 9--11 B. T. Smith EISPACK 3: announcement of availability 18 B. T. Smith Status report on FORTRAN 8x as of August 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--21 R. Pyzalski and M. Vala Single-valued conversion of decimal numbers to rational fractions . . . . . 22 R. Pyzalski and M. Vala Single-valued conversion of decimal numbers to rational fractions . . . . . 22--22
Jack J. Dongarra Performance of various computers using standard linear equations software in a Fortran environment . . . . . . . . . . 23--26
F. N. Fritsch and R. E. Carlson Availability of software for monotone interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--7
Jerrold L. Wagener Status of work toward revision of programming language Fortran . . . . . . 1--42
Michael Clemmesen Interval arithmetic implementations: using floating point arithmetic . . . . 2--8 Alan George and Esmond Ng A new release of SPARSPAK: the Waterloo sparse matrix package . . . . . . . . . 9--13
Jack J. Dongarra and Jeremy Du Croz and Sven Hammarling and Richard J. Hanson A proposal for an extended set of Fortran Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms 2--18 David S. Dodson and John G. Lewis Issues relating to extension of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms . . . . 19--22 David S. Dodson and John G. Lewis Proposed sparse extensions to the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms . . . . . . . 22--25 W. J. Cody and J. T. Coonen and D. M. Gay and K. Hanson and D. Hough and W. Kahan and R. Karpinski and J. Palmer and F. N. Ris and D. Stevenson A Proposed Radix- and Word-length-independent Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic . . . . . . . 37--51
Eleanor Chu and Alan George A note on estimating the error in Gaussian elimination without pivoting 2--7 A. D. Solomon and V. Alexiades and D. G. Wilson Moving boundary problems in phase change models current research questions . . . 8--12 Philip E. Gill and Walter Murray and Michael A. Saunders and Margaret H. Wright Some issues in implementing a sequential quadratic programming algorithm . . . . 13--19 J. Fr. Hake Mathematical software at KFA . . . . . . 20--30
Sven Hammarling The singular value decomposition in multivariate statistics . . . . . . . . 2--25 T. E. Hull and A. Abrham and M. S. Cohen and A. F. X. Curley and C. B. Hall and D. A. Penny and J. T. M. Sawchuk Numerical Turing . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34 I. Gladwell The NAG library ordinary differential equations chapter and short term plans for its extension . . . . . . . . . . . 35--40 R. M. J. Iles Toolpack/1 distribution service . . . . 41--44 Jack J. Dongarra and Eric Grosse Distribution of mathematical software via electronic mail . . . . . . . . . . 45--47 G. Aharonian Multi-language BLAS: a proposal . . . . 48--49 H. Lipps and G. A. Erskine Programming tools for linear algebra . . 50--53
Lloyd N. Trefethen Three mysteries of Gaussian elimination 2--5 E. D. Chikhliwala Design and implementation of a Fast Poisson solver for microcomputers . . . 6--12 A. Karp A parallel processing challenge . . . . 12--13
Bo Einarsson Mixed language programming realization and the provision of data types . . . . 2--9 Leonidas S. Xanthis A pseudo-ODE modelling trick for the direct method of lines computation of important fracture mechanics parameters 10--16
Donald L. Williams A mathematical software environment . . 2--12 T. F. Higginbotham Another factor of $(10^{31} -1)/9$ . . . 12--12 P. W. Gaffney and C. A. Addison and B. Andersen and S. Bjòrnestad and R. E. England and P. M. Hanson and R. Pickering and M. G. Thomason NEXUS: towards a problem solving environment (PSE) for scientific computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--24 Anonymous Martin Beale memorial symposium . . . . 24--24 Mary H. Payne Proposal for the transfer of floating point data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26 Charles B. Dunham Test for (in)equality, subtraction, proof of correctness . . . . . . . . . . 27--30 Joseph S. Fulda Numerical methods disguised . . . . . . 31--32
J. Dongarra and J. DuCroz and S. Hammarling and R. Hanson An Update Notice on the Extended BLAS 2--4 Timothy J. Gardner DPUP: a distributed processing utilities package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19 Yi Ling Chiang Use of mathematical switches to solve differential equation problems . . . . . 20--33 Charles B. Dunham The challenge of parallel function evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--34
F. W. Pfeiffer Automatic differentiation in PROSE . . . 2--8 George C. Bush Saving time and space in spline calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--10 Fred T. Krogh Making hard constraints soft . . . . . . 11--11 W. Govaerts and J. D. Pryce An alternative to Chan's deflation for bordered systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--13 Richard L. Branham, Jr. Are orthogonal transformations worthwhile for least squares problems? 14--19
Peter Thompson Implementing an elementary function library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--5 Charles B. Dunham Provably monotone approximations . . . . 6--11 Sandra J. Cynar Using Gaussian elimination for computation of the central difference equation coefficients . . . . . . . . . 12--19
Jack Dongarra and Jeremy Du Croz and Iain Duff and Sven Hammarling A proposal for a set of level 3 basic linear algebra subprograms . . . . . . . 2--14 John de Pillis Symbolic packages in the development of numerical algorithms . . . . . . . . . . 15--18 Tony F. Chan Obstacles which split computer science and numerical analysis . . . . . . . . . 19--26 D. J. Evans and B. B. Sanugi A nonlinear Runge--Kutta formula for initial value problems . . . . . . . . . 27--30 Charles B. Dunham Provably monotone approximations, II . . 30--31
James Fullerton Note on a pseudorandom number generator 3--5 Timothy J. Rolfe On a fast integer square root algorithm 6--11 William Knight Another alternative for bordered systems 12--12
Brian T. Smith Fortran 8x --- its public review . . . . 2--6 Charles L. Lawson Series reversion as the reversed chain rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--9 Charles B. Dunham Provably monotone approximations, III 10--10 Wlodzimierz Proskurowski Decomposing a sequence of matrices that differ only in one submatrix . . . . . . 12--17
I. S. Duff and A. M. Erisman and C. W. Gear and J. K. Reid Sparsity structure and Gaussian elimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--8 Alan George and Esmond Ng Some shared memory is desirable in parallel sparse matrix computation . . . 9--13 C. Dunham and Z. Zhu Approximation with exact Lagrange-type interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15 M. Berzins and R. W. Brankin and I. Gladwell The stiff integrators in the NAG library 16--23 T. J. Rolfe Generations of permutations with non-unique elements . . . . . . . . . . 24--28 Brian T. Smith A review and analysis of Fortran 8x . . 29--60
Charles B. Dunham and C. Z. Zhu Solving equations nonlinear in only one of $N + 1$ variables . . . . . . . . . . 2--3 Sandra J. Cynar The use of forward difference equations in animation of physical phenomena . . . 4--8 W. J. Cody New version of MACHAR available . . . . 9--10 Anthony Brook and David Kendrick and Alexander Meeraus GAMS, a user's guide . . . . . . . . . . 10--11
Max E. Jerrell Automatic Differentiation Using Almost Any Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--9 Jack Dongarra and Iain Duff and Jeremy Du Croz and Sven Hammarling An update notice on the level 3 BLAS . . 9--10 D. J. Evans A comparison of sequential and parallel elimination methods for tridiagonal matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12 C. B. Dunham Summation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
W. M. Coughran, Jr. and E. Grosse A philosophy for scientific computing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--7 C. B. Dunham Perturbation Analysis of Horner's Method for Nice Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9 A. J. Macleod Some statistics on Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting . . . . . . . . . 10--14
C. B. Dunham Improvement of complex arithmetic by use of double elements . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7 M. S. Zahir A computational algorithm for $LU$ decomposition of a sequence of matrices that differ only in one or more elements 8--16
M. Payne and C. Schaffert and B. Wichmann Proposal for a language compatible arithmetic standard . . . . . . . . . . 2--43 Richard L. Branham A C program for solving banded, symmetric, positive definite systems . . 44--55
Carl de Boor An empty exercise . . . . . . . . . . . 3--7 Charles B. Dunham How accurate should numerical routines be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9 Zafar Khan and Sudhir Chawla and Dinesh Dave A note on comparison of nonlinear least squares algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . 10--18
John C. Nash A hypertext environment for using mathematical software: part 1 --- motivations and design objectives . . . 2--14 Charles B. Dunham Difficulties in fitting scientific data 15--20 Sandra J. Cynar Slowing propagation error caused by finite register sizes in unstable systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
Carl de Boor An empty exercise . . . . . . . . . . . 2--6 Richard Franke Topics in computer-aided geometric design--1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16 Timothy J. Rolfe Timing comparisons of the Householder QR transformations with rank-$1$ and rank-$2$ updates . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24 C. B. Dunham Feasibility of ``perfect'' function evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Anonymous MATH77 Library Available from COSMIC . . 5 John R. Rice Performance Evaluation of Numerical Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Charles Dunham Applications of Best Approximation . . . 2--10 Alan Genz and Zongli Lin and Charles Jones and Dali Luo and Thorsten Prenzel Fast Givens Goes Slow in MATLAB . . . . 11--16
W. Kahan Analysis and Refutation of the LCAS . . 2--15 M. C. Bartholomew-Biggs Ada Software for Teaching Modern Computer Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
G. W. Stewart FTP --- File Transfer Program . . . . . 2--3 Eric Grosse Netlib news: big files . . . . . . . . . 4--5 Alan Edelman The First Annual Large Dense Linear System Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--12 Lloyd Fosdick IFIP Working Conference on Programming Environments for High-Level Scientific Problem Solving . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software) Comments on version 3.1 of draft ISO/IEC 10967:1991 Language Compatible Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3 Jack Dongarra LAPACK is Now Available . . . . . . . . 3--4 Mei Kobayashi Summary of the seminar on wavelets sponsored by AVIRG . . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
John Carroll The Role of Computer Software in Numerical Analysis Teaching . . . . . . 2--31
Eric Grosse Netlib News: Search for Files . . . . . 2--4
Craig C. Douglas MGNet: a multigrid and domain decomposition network . . . . . . . . . 2--8 Jeffrey Dawson and Mary Payne and Craig Schaffert The Role of LIA-1 in Software Portability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
John Reid Language Independent Arithmetic (LIA) --- A Draft International Standard (DIS) 2--7 Fred Ris and Ed Barkmeyer and Craig Schaffert and Peter Farkas When Floating-Point Addition Isn't Commutative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13
Allan J. MacLeod An Instability Problem in Chebyshev Expansions for Special Functions . . . . 2--7 Ingo Dittmer Error in Unix commands \tt dc and \tt bc for multiple-precision-arithmetic . . . 8--11
Anonymous Abstracts of Ph.D. Theses . . . . . . . 2 Anonymous Call For Papers: Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) . . . . . . 6 Anonymous Call For Papers: 1994 ACM SIGMetrics Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Tim Hopkins and John Slater A Comment on the Eispack Machine Epsilon Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--6 IFIP Working Group 2.5 The Enable Construct for Exception Handling in Fortran 90 . . . . . . . . . 7--16
Fred Tydeman What causes a Trap in IEEE-754 Floating-Point? . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--4
Keith Briggs How to Stabilize a Fixed Point . . . . . 2--3 Craig C. Douglas and Gordon Slishman Variants of Matrix-Matrix Multiplication for Fortran-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
W. J. Whiten Determination of parameter relations within non-linear models . . . . . . . . 2--5
W. J. Whiten and L. Kocis Regarding test functions for multi-dimensional integration . . . . . 2--7
Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 3 Anonymous IFIP TC 2 Working Conference: Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Anonymous ISSAC '95: Announcement . . . . . . . . 12
Chris Bischof and Fred Dilley A Compilation of Automatic Differentiation Tools presented at the 1995 International Convention on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Hamburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--20 Samuel A. Figueroa When is Double Rounding Innocuous? . . . 21--26 Per Brinch Hansen The SuperPascal Software . . . . . . . . 27--27 Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 29 Anonymous International Linear Algebra Year --- Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Vladik Kreinovich Interval Rational $=$ Algebraic . . . . 2--13 Richard L. Branham, Jr. Algorithms for Julian Dates . . . . . . 14--18 H. K. Hodge Achieving a Full Deck . . . . . . . . . 19--26 Jack Dongarra and Jerzy Wasniewski Report on the Second Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA95 . . . . . . . 28 Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 30
Misha Koshelev Computationally Complicated Problems of Numerical Computations (in Particular, Interval Computations), Biofeedback, Computer Games, and Gulf War: An Idea 2--7 James A. Delaney An Example of Error Propagation Reinterpreted as Subtractive Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--13 Anatoly V. Lakeyev and Vladik Kreinovich ``Interval Rational $=$ Algebraic'' Revisited: A More Computer Realistic Result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--17 H. K. Hodge More Interesting . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--18 Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 20
Hiroshi Akima Note on Local Methods of Univariate Interpolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--5 G. William Walster and Vladik Kreinovich For Unknown-But-Bounded Errors, Interval Estimates are often better than Averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--19 James S. Dukelow, Jr. An Example of Error Propagation Reinterpreted as Subtractive Cancellation --- Revisited . . . . . . . 20--23 V. Drygalla Remark on ``An example of error propagation reinterpreted as subtractive cancellation'' by J. A. Delaney (SIGNUM Newsletter 1/96) . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24 Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui A Class of Numerical Integration Rules With First Order Derivatives . . . . . . 25--44 Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 46
Hans J. Stetter Numerical Computer Algebra . . . . . . . 2 Misha Koshelev and Vladik Kreinovich Why Monotonicity in Interval Computations? A Remark . . . . . . . . . 4--8 Andrei M. Finkelstein and Misha Koshelev Case Studies of Choosing a Numerical Differentiation Method Under Uncertainty: Computer-Aided Design and Radiotelescope Network Design . . . . . 9--26 Anonymous Ph.D. Theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Jack Dongarra and Jerzy Wasniewski Denmark hosts Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing (PARA96) . . . . . . 28 Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 30
Hans J. Stetter Symbolic Numeric Algebra for Polynomials 2 Andrei Finkelstein and Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich Astrogeometry, Error Estimation, and Other Applications of Set-Valued Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--25 Vladik Kreinovich With What Accuracy Can We Measure Masses If We Have An (Approximately Known) Mass Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--34 John Rice Problem Solving Environments --- Web Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Anonymous Worldwide Mathematica Conference . . . . 36 Anonymous Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . 37
Raúl Antonio Trejo Ramírez and Vladik Kreinovich How to rate numerical packages? Foundations of ratings, and their possible use in numerical mathematics, in education, and in military design . . 2--10 Yi-Ling F. Chiang Some Suggestions on the Implementation of Reliable Simulations . . . . . . . . 11--16 Hung T. Nguyen and Vladik Kreinovich Intelligent Control in Space Exploration: Interval Computations are Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--36 Roy Rada and James Schoening New Standards for Educational Technology Relevant to Multiple ACM SIGs . . . . . 37--39 Tien Chi Chen Symmetry and Nonconvergence in Iterative Polynomial Zero-Finding . . . . . . . . 40--43 Anonymous Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Bart Maerten and Ronald Cools An interactive program to approximate double integrals: an easy to use interface for Cubpack++ . . . . . . . . 2--8 Misha Koshelev and Scott Starks Energy from Space: A New Potential Application of Interval Computations . . 9--13
Tim Hopkins Restructuring the BLAS Level 1 Routine For Computing the Modified Givens Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--14 Timothy J. Rolfe Analytic Derivation of Comparisons in Binary Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--19
Anonymous Editorial Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Anonymous Letter From the Chair . . . . . . . . . 5 Barry F. Smith The Transition of Numerical Software: From Nuts-and-Bolts to Abstraction . . . 7--15 David H. Bailey Finding New Mathematical Identities via Numerical Computations . . . . . . . . . 17--22 Anonymous Current Institutional Reports . . . . . 23 Anonymous Recent Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous Letters: Editorial Remarks . . . . . . . 3 Wolfgang K. Giloi Konrad Zuse: Reflections on the 80th Birthday of the German Computing Pioneer 11--16 John Michael McNamee A Comparison of Methods for Accelerating Convergence of Newton's Method for Multiple Polynomial Roots . . . . . . . 17--22 Anonymous Departments: Current Institutional Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Anonymous Departments: Recent Books . . . . . . . 29