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J. 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