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E. 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.
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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.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleArtificial
intelligence --- A knowledge-based
approach: B. Morris W. Firebaugh. Boyd &
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputer systems
development: By Denis A. Connor.
Prentice--Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNumerical recipes
in C --- The art of scientific
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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
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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. Ortiz and
H. Samara A unified approach to the Tau Method and
Chebyshev series expansion techniques 73--82
Yi-Fa Tang The symplecticity of multi-step methods 83--90
Oscar Rojo and
Ricardo L. Soto and
Hector Rojo New eigenvalue estimates for complex
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97
Jong-Shenq Guo and
Jen-Chih Yao The variational inequalities . . . . . . 99--105
Lev Abolnikov and
Jewgeni H. Dshalalow Semi-regenerative analysis of controlled
bulk queueing systems with a bilevel
service delay discipline and some
ergodic theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
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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. Köhler Deformations, isosymmetric manifolds,
and higher-dimensional form space
symmetries for point ensembles
(polygonal forms) under O(2) symmetry I.
Two and three points . . . . . . . . . . 63--90
Lan Chieh Huang Conservative bicharacteristic upwind
schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--107
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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
W. C. Hassenpflug Matrix Tensor Notation. Part II. Skew
and curved coordinates . . . . . . . . . 1--103
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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. Li and
Mengzhao Qin Lie--Poisson integration for rigid body
dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--118
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSelected papers
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCross-level
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTechnoscientific
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputer algebra
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUsing MPI:
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCoordination and
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFields and rings,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA concrete
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleRepeated games
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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
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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
M. M. Chawla and
A. A. Karaballi and
M. S. Al-Sahhar Extended double-stride $L$-stable
methods for the numerical solution of
ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
D. Herceg and
N. Kreji\'c Convergence results for fixed point
iterations in $R$ . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
P. K. Jha and
N. Agnihotri and
R. Kumar Edge exchanges in Hamiltonian
decompositions of Kronecker-product
graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--19
Zhongzhi Bai Parallel nonlinear AOR method and its
convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
K. W. Chung and
H. S. Y. Chan and
B. N. Wang Hyperbolic symmetries from dynamics . . 33--47
Q. Li and
P. Wang and
E. S. Lee $r$-fuzzy sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--61
D. Bainov and
E. Minchev An estimate of the interval of existence
of solutions of the nonlinear Kirchhoff
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
P. Glaister The efficiency of different averaging
procedures in an algorithm for the Euler
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
M. K. El-Daou and
E. L. Ortiz Differential equations with locally
perturbed coefficients: High order error
estimates for function and derivative 73--84
G. Avdelas and
T. E. Simos Embedded methods for the numerical
solution of the Schrödinger equation . . 85--102
A. Tanikawa The rate of convergence of a homogeneous
Markov chain arising from two-queue
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
N. h. Cong Explicit symmetric Runge--Kutta--Nyström
methods for parallel computers . . . . . 111--121, 123
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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
Pál Rózsa Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii
I. Arany The preconditioned conjugate gradient
method with incomplete factorization
preconditioners . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
C. G. Broyden A new taxonomy of conjugate gradient
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--17
M. Lucká and
M. Vajtersic and
E. Viktorinová Massively parallel Poisson and $ Q R $
factorization solvers . . . . . . . . . 19--26
I. Marek and
P. Mayer Iterative aggregation/disaggregation
method for computing stationary
probability vectors of Markov type
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--40
J. Maroulas and
P. Psarrakos Geometrical properties of numerical
range of matrix polynomials . . . . . . 41--47
C. Mészáros Fast Cholesky factorization for interior
point methods of linear programming . . 49--54
M. Paprzycki and
C. Cyphers Using Strassen's matrix multiplication
in high performance solution of linear
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
T. Szulc Testing some properties of real matrices 63--65
J. W. Schmidt Staircase algorithm and construction of
convex spline interpolants up to the
continuity $ C^3 $ . . . . . . . . . . . 67--79
K. Balla Linear subspaces for linear DAEs of
index 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--86
K. Balla and
V. H. Linh The simultaneous computation of Bessel
functions of first and second kind . . . 87--97
E. Bohl Discrete and continuous dynamical
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
J. C. Butcher General linear methods . . . . . . . . . 105--112
B. M. Garay Various closeness concepts in numerical
ODE's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--119
R. März Canonical projectors for linear
differential algebraic equations . . . . 121--135
M. Boulbrachene and
H. Sissaoui The finite element approximation of
variational inequalities related to
ergodic control problems . . . . . . . . 137--141
I. Faragó Qualitative properties of the numerical
solution of linear parabolic problems
with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions 143--150
G. Haase and
U. Langer The efficient parallel solution of PDEs 151--159
V. V. Shaidurov Some estimates of the rate of
convergence for the cascadic
conjugate-gradient method . . . . . . . 161--171
A. E. Csallner and
T. Csendes The convergence speed of interval
methods for global optimization . . . . 173--178
J. A. Ford and
I. A. Moghrabi Minimum curvature multistep quasi-Newton
methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--186
M. Hujter Improving a method of search for solving
polynomial equations . . . . . . . . . . 187--189
I. Kozák and
I. Páczelt and
Gy. Szeidl Relative motion of continua with
applications to the analysis of
nonlinear problems by the finite element
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199
P. Lancaster and
P. Rózsa The spectrum and stability of a
vibrating rail supported by sleepers . . 201--213
S. P. Corwin and
S. Thompson Error estimation and step size control
for delay differential equation solvers
based on continuously embedded
Runge--Kutta--Sarafyan methods . . . . . 1--11
P. Góra and
A. Boyarsky An algorithm to control chaotic behavior
in one-dimensional maps . . . . . . . . 13--22
P. Bogacki A family of parallel Runge--Kutta pairs 23--31
A. J. Davies Parallel implementations of the boundary
element method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--40
G. P. Babu and
M. N. Murty and
B. R. Ram Clan-based evolutionary approach for
solving control problems . . . . . . . . 41--60
M. D. Gunzburger and
R. E. Hiromoto and
M. O. Mundt Analysis of a Monte Carlo boundary
propagation method . . . . . . . . . . . 61--70
V. Rehbock and
K. L. Teo and
L. S. Jennings Optimal and suboptimal feedback controls
for a class of nonlinear systems . . . . 71--86
P. Natalini and
P. E. Ricci The moments of the density of zeros for
the relativistic Hermite and Laguerre
polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
J. Carroll and
S. Stewart A comparison of some adaptive space mesh
solvers for the numerical solution of
parabolic partial differential equations 97--115
G. Adomian Solution of coupled nonlinear partial
differential equations by decomposition 117--120
V. Harison Drift estimation of a certain class of
diffusion processes from discrete
observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
N. T. Shawagfeh Analytic approximate solution for a
nonlinear oscillator equation . . . . . 135--141
Zhongzhi Bai The monotone convergence rate of the
parallel nonlinear AOR method . . . . . 1--8
M. Oh and
U. J. Choi and
V. I. Shin The lower-order suboptimal filter for
discrete nonlinear systems . . . . . . . 9--16
Z. Chen A finite element method for the quantum
hydrodynamic model for semiconductor
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
Congxin Wu and
Lixin Cheng and
Minghu Ha and
E. S. Lee Convexification of nonconvex functions
and application to minimum and maximum
principles for nonconvex sets . . . . . 27--36
R. Qu Smooth curve interpolation with
generalized conics . . . . . . . . . . . 37--64
P. Glaister The relationship between the direct and
weak formulations of a linearised
Riemann solver for systems of
conservation laws . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
B. Bukiet and
J. Pelesko and
X. L. Li and
P. L. Sachdev A characteristic based numerical method
with tracking for nonlinear wave
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--99
Qun Lin and
J. G. Rokne Interval approximation of higher order
to the ranges of functions . . . . . . . 101--109
P. Amodio and
M. Paprzycki and
T. Politi A survey of parallel direct methods for
block bidiagonal linear systems on
distributed memory computers . . . . . . 111--127
Hung-Min Sun and
Shiuh-Pyng Shieh An efficient construction of perfect
secret sharing schemes for graph-based
structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--135
Anonymous Errata to ``Modelling traffic queues at
a signalized intersection with
vehicle-actuated control'' . . . . . . . 137--137
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First international conference on
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scientific and engineering calculations:
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bar: Law, science, and technology in
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
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Between nature and society: By Stephen
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe semantics of
syntax: a minimalist approach to
grammar: By Denis Bouchard. University
of Chicago Press, Chicago. (1995). 525
pages. \$95.00, \pounds 75.95 (cloth);
\$35.95, \pounds 28.75 (paper) . . . . . 148--148
S. Kim and
M. Lee Artificial damping techniques for scalar
waves in the frequency domain . . . . . 1--12
G. P. Klimov and
G. R. Marshall Measure of similarity of amino acids or
how to obtain the genetic code table
from ``nothing'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--21
Zhongzhi Bai and
Deren Wang Improved comparison theorem for the
nonlinear multisplitting relaxation
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
H. Hayashi and
T. Mitsui Further analysis of stability for
Lambert's method based on Euler's rule 31--36
A. D. Richardson and
J. R. Dormand The simulated cooling of the hot-rolled
structural steel sections . . . . . . . 37--47
R. Kornhuber A posteriori error estimates for
elliptic variational inequalities . . . 49--60
A. R. Miller and
I. S. Moskowitz Generalizations of the Carlton--Kimball
distribution for a target's future
location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68
T. Benouaz and
O. Arino Least square approximation of a
nonlinear ordinary differential equation 69--84
M. S. Petkovi\'c and
S. B. Trickovi\'c Tchebychef-like method for the
simultaneous finding zeros of analytic
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--93
Dingwei Wang and
S.-C. Fang A semi-infinite programming model for
earliness/tardiness production planning
with a genetic algorithm . . . . . . . . 95--106
I. Fazekas and
F. Liese Some properties of the Hellinger
transform and its application in
classification problems . . . . . . . . 107--116
Tzon Tzer Lu and
Sui Sun Cheng Form preserving linear integral
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--134
M. F. Pettigrew and
H. Rasmussen A compact method for second-order
boundary value problems on nonuniform
grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
L. Jódar and
D. Goberna Exact and analytic numerical solution of
coupled diffusion problems in a
semi-infinite medium . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
J. Molenaar A simple cell-centered multigrid method
for $3$D interface problems . . . . . . 25--33
A. Babin and
A. Mahalov and
B. Nicolaenko Integrability and regularity of $3$D
Euler and equations for uniformly
rotating fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--42
J. J. B. de Swart and
J. G. Blom Experiences with sparse matrix solvers
in parallel ODE software . . . . . . . . 43--55
M. Katsumata and
M. Kurihara and
A. Ohuchi and
Y. Sugasawa Serial failure diagnosis of a
distributed processing system by Petri
nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
J. Zhang A note on the tau-method approximations
for the Bessel functions $ Y_0 (z) $ and
$ Y_1 (z) $ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
M. Tada and
H. Ishii An integer fuzzy transportation problem 71--87
A. E. Köhler Deformations, isosymmetric manifolds,
and higher dimensional form space
symmetries for point ensembles
(polygonal forms) under $O(2)$ symmetry
II. Four points . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--116
A. E. Köhler Deformations, isosymmetric manifolds,
and higher dimensional form space
symmetries for point ensembles
(polygonal forms) under $O(2)$ symmetry
III. Motifs in geometric figures and
constraints in form spaces . . . . . . . 117--140
K. Balla Boundary conditions and their transfer
for differential-algebraic equations of
index 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
B. Gyires Elementary proof for a Van der Waerden's
conjecture and related theorems . . . . 7--21
H. O. Kim and
J. H. Kim and
S. Y. Moon Degree reduction of Bézier curves and
filter banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
G. A. Anastassiou and
M. Zhou Simultaneous approximation of the Feller
operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--44
Chong Li and
G. A. Watson A class of best simultaneous
approximation problems . . . . . . . . . 45--53
M. Li and
T. Tang Steady viscous flow in a triangular
cavity by efficient numerical techniques 55--65
K. Abdella and
H. Rasmussen and
I. I. Inculet Interfacial deformation of liquid drops
by electric fields at zero gravity . . . 67--82
I. P. Boglaev and
V. V. Sirotkin Iterative domain decomposition
algorithms for the solution of
singularly perturbed parabolic problems 83--100
G. Leitmann and
C. S. Lee Stabilization of an uncertain competing
species system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--129
N. T. Long and
E. L. Ortiz and
A. Pham Ngoc Dinh A nonlinear Bessel differential equation
associated with Cauchy conditions . . . 131--139
Lan Chieh Huang and
Ya Dan Wu The component-consistent pressure
correction projection method for the
incompressible Navier--Stokes equations 1--21
M. Grötschel and
A. Martin and
R. Weismantel Optimum path packing on wheels: the
consecutive case . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--35
B. I. Yun and
S. Lee and
U. J. Choi A modified boundary integral method on
open arcs in the plane . . . . . . . . . 37--43
M. Arató and
A. Kuki and
A. Szabó Exact distribution of estimators of
parameters in Ornstein--Uhlenbeck
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
B. Almási Response time for finite heterogeneous
nonreliable queueing systems . . . . . . 55--59
A. E. Radwan and
L. Debnath Hydromagnetic instability of a
gravitating finite resistive fluid layer
sandwiched in a different fluid . . . . 61--67
J. R. Cash and
Y. Psihoyios The MOL solution of time dependent
partial differential equations . . . . . 69--78
G. M. Leibowitz Remarks on the article ``Norm
inequalities which yield inclusions for
Euler sequence spaces'' . . . . . . . . 79--81
P. Diamond and
M. Suzuki and
P. Kloeden and
P. Pokrovskii Statistical properties of
discretizations of a class of chaotic
dynamical systems . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
P. Cubiotti A general theorem of complementarity for
the implicit GQVI problem . . . . . . . 97--104
V. J. Ervin and
W. J. Layton A posteriori error estimation for two
level discretizations of flows of
electrically conducting, incompressible
fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--114
Bo Tian and
Yi-Tian Gao Computer algebra, Painlevé analysis and
the time-dependent-coefficient nonlinear
Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . . . . 115--119
Ying Teh Tsai and
Chuan Yi Tang and
Yunn Yen Chen An average case analysis of a greedy
algorithm for the on-line Steiner tree
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--131
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLogic
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international symposium: Edited by John
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSpecial
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classical functions of mathematical
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCombinatorial
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to programming with Mathematica\reg
(second edition): By Richard Gaylord,
Samuel Kamin and Paul Wellin.
Springer-Verlag, New York. (1996). 452
pages. DM 72.00 (diskette included) . . 135--135
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe little
schemer (fourth edition): By Daniel P.
Friedman and Matthias Felleisen. MIT
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMetamorphosis: a
Guide to the World Wide Web & Electronic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophy and
AI: Essays at the interface: Edited by
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Felleisen. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComparative
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCOGNITION on
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
models for handling partial knowledge in
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBandits on the
information superhighway: By Daniel J.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleElements of
acoustic phoenetics, (2$^{nd}$ edition):
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Chicago Press, Chicago. (1996). 216
pages. \$39.95, \pounds 31.95 (cloth);
\$14.95, \pounds 11.95 (paper) . . . . . 137--137
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInductive logic
programming: From machine learning to
software engineering: By Francesco
Bergadano and Daniele Gunetti. MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA. (1996). 240 pages.
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theory: By Richard Larson and Gabriel
Segal. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1995).
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in environmental engineering and
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Rogers. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleExperiments in
mathematics using Maple: By C. T. J.
Dodson and E. A. Gonzalez. Springer,
Berlin. (1995). 465 pages. DM 48.00 . . 138--138
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
combinatorics, volume 1: Edited by R. L.
Graham, M. Grötschel, and L. Lovász.
Elsevier/MIT Press, Amsterdam,
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combinatorics, volume 1: Edited by R. L.
Graham, M. Grötschel, and L. Lovász.
Elsevier/MIT Press, Amsterdam,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleKnowing machines:
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MacKenzie. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1996). 338 pages. \$35.00} . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePractical
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleExploring
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Callender. Prentice Hall, London.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAn introduction
to symbolic dynamics and coding: By
Douglas Lind and Brian Marcus. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge. (1995). 495
pages. \$54.95 (cloth); \$27.95 (paper) 139--139
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleJava in a
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSpeech coding: a
computer laboratory textbook: By Thomas
Barnwell III, Kambiz Nayebi, and Craig
Richardson. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
(1996). 184 pages. \$37.95 (2 diskettes
included)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139
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Dictionaries, computers, and meanings:
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Guthrie. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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reference: By Marc Snir, Steve Otto,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePractical
parallel programming: By Gregory V.
Wilson. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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version 1.0 (for NEXTSTEP): By Richard
K. Larson, David S. Warren, Juliana
Freire de Lima e Silva, and Kostantinos
Sagonas. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1996). 130 pages. \$25.00 (diskette
included)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--140
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTime dependent
problems and difference methods: By
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and Joseph Oliger. John Wiley & Sons, New
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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
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student assessment: Challenges and
possibilities. Ninety-fifth yearbook of
the National Society for the Study of
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IL. (1996). 318 pages. \$31.00 (\pounds
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dynamics in ecological space and time:
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTheories of
vision from Al-kindi to Kepler: By David
C. Lindberg. University of Chicago
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H. De Meyer and
T. Van Hecke and
G. Vanden Berghe and
M. Van Daele Multistride $L$-stable fourth-order
methods for the numerical solution of
ODEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
L. Debnath and
T. Roy Energy eigenvalues of the
Gellman--Feynman hydrogen atom . . . . . 9--11
R. K. Raina and
H. M. Srivastava A certain subclass of analytic functions
associated with operators of fractional
calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--19
S. J. Yu and
T. C. Lai and
J. C. Yao Generalized nonlinear variational
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--27
S. X. Bai A note on determining pure-strategy
equilibrium points of bimatrix games . . 29--35
G. Manzini Perimeter search in restricted memory 37--45
Y. Yavin Navigation and control of a trolley by
using a dynamical model . . . . . . . . 47--55
V. Bharadwaj and
H. F. Li and
T. Radhakrishnan Scheduling divisible loads in bus
networks with arbitrary processor
release times . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--77
B. Karasözen Composite integrators for bi-Hamiltonian
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--86
Yi-Zhong Lin and
Sui Sun Cheng Stability criteria for two partial
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 87--103
T. Hämäläinen and
S. Pohjolainen The design of linear controllers with
symbolic algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--116
N. Kjurkchiev and
M. S. Petkovi\'c The behaviour of approximations of the
SOR Weierstrass method . . . . . . . . . 117--121
Anonymous Errata to ``68 new large amicable
pairs'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
P. J. Y. Wong and
R. P. Agarwal Double positive solutions of $ (n, p) $
boundary value problems for higher order
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
I. Gavrea and
H. H. Gonska and
D. P. Kacsó Positive linear operators with
equidistant nodes . . . . . . . . . . . 23--32
B. Llanas and
C. Moreno Finding the projection on a polytope: an
iterative method . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--39
L. Jódar and
J. L. Cortés and
J. L. Morera Construction and computation of variable
coefficient Sylvester differential
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--50
S. D. Panteliou and
A. D. Dimarogonas and
I. N. Katz Direct and inverse interpolation for
Jacobian elliptic functions, zeta
function of Jacobi and complete elliptic
integrals of the second kind . . . . . . 51--57
A. Chalabi An error bound for the polygonal
approximation of conservation laws with
source terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
B. Shi and
Z. C. Wang and
J. S. Yu Asymptotic constancy of solutions of
linear parabolic Volterra difference
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--77
Zhong-Zhi Bai and
De-Ren Wang A class of parallel nonlinear
multisplitting relaxation methods for
the large sparse nonlinear
complementarity problems . . . . . . . . 79--95
C. Z. Janikow A methodology for processing problem
constraints in genetic programming . . . 97--113
Yuh-Yuan Guh and
Cheng-Chung Hon and
Kuo-Ming Wang and
E. S. Lee Fuzzy weighted average: a max-min paired
elimination method . . . . . . . . . . . 115--123
Zhong-Zhi Bai The convergence of parallel iteration
algorithms for linear complementarity
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
L. Jódar and
R. J. Villanueva Explicit solutions of implicit
second-order difference systems in
unbounded bilateral domains . . . . . . 19--28
M. Newman and
Y. C. Pao Factorization of polynomials based on
the multiplicities of their roots and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
Fu-Hsiang Wong and
Wei-Cheng Lian Positive solution for singular boundary
value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
W. V. Gehrlein and
P. Fishburn Niche number four . . . . . . . . . . . 51--54
Zhong-xuan Luo and
Ren-hong Wang Rational shape functions for $ C^1
$-interpolation on quadrilaterals . . . 55--66
Yuh-Yuan Guh and
Kuo-Ming Wang and
E. S. Lee Hierarchies consistency analysis for
nontransitive problems . . . . . . . . . 67--77
M. J. Kaiser The critical point and related symmetry
measures of a planar convex set . . . . 79--98
J. R. Grad and
K. A. Morris Solving the linear quadratic optimal
control problem for infinite-dimensional
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--119
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T. E. Simos A new method for the numerical solution
of fourth-order BVP's with oscillating
solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
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M. G. Zavattaro Invariant probability and entropy
measures for multidimensional maps of
chaotic attractors . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16
Y. Yoshida An optimal stopping problem in dynamic
fuzzy systems with fuzzy rewards . . . . 17--28
N. Madden and
M. Stynes Linear enhancements of the streamline
diffusion method for
convection--diffusion problems . . . . . 29--42
D. Lasser and
T. Stüttgen Boundary improvement of piecewise linear
interpolants defined over Delaunay
triangulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
M. Jones Universal unfoldings of group invariant
equations which model second and third
harmonic resonant capillary-gravity
waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--89
Xie Ping Ding Iterative process with errors to locally
strictly pseudocontractive maps in
Banach spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--97
N. G. Lloyd and
J. M. Pearson and
V. A. Romanovsky Computing integrability conditions for a
cubic differential system . . . . . . . 99--107
Mo-Hong Chou and
Yu-Tuan Lin Exotic dynamic behavior of the forced
FitzHugh--Nagumo equations . . . . . . . 109--124
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAchieving quality
in software, proceedings of the third
international conference on achieving
quality in software, 1996: Edited by
Sandro Bologna and Giacomo Bucci.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputational
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How simulation is changing the frontiers
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Space, place, and the infobahn: By
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputational
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
knowledge discovery and data mining:
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Piatetsky-Shapiro, Padhraic Smyth and
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCreative
cognition: Theory, research, and
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Cambridge, MA. (1992). 239 pages.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMetacognition:
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electronic frontier: Conceptual issues
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNanotechnology:
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBounding
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleElectronic
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O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1996). 383
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFoundations for
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA dynamic systems
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computers: Usefulness, usability, and
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleError and the
growth of experimental knowledge: By
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe map-building
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe origins of
grammar: Evidence from early language
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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. MIT Press,
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vision: Object recognition and visual
cognition: Shimon Ullman. MIT Press,
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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
K. K. Nambiar and
B. Gopinath and
T. Nagaraj and
S. Manjunath Boyce--Codd normal form decomposition 1--3
T. Dewson and
A. D. Irving and
G. Terdik Estimating of Volterra kernels in case
of moment hierarchy and orthogonal
representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--14
S. Shkoller An approximate homogenization scheme for
nonperiodic materials . . . . . . . . . 15--34
Yi-Tian Gao and
Bo Tian Using symbolic computation to exactly
solve for the Bogoyavlenskii's
generalized breaking soliton equation 35--37
J. L. Morera and
G. Rubio and
L. Jódar Higher order implicit multistep methods
for matrix differential equations . . . 39--48
L. Jódar and
P. Almenar Uniqueness of solution for mixed
problems related to the generalized wave
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
C.-K. Cho and
Y.-H. Kwon and
S. Kang Parameter estimation for an infiltration
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67
Y. Eidelman and
I. Gohberg Inversion formulas and linear complexity
algorithm for diagonal plus
semiseparable matrices . . . . . . . . . 69--79
J. M. Hyman and
M. Shashkov Natural discretizations for the
divergence, gradient, and curl on
logically rectangular grids . . . . . . 81--104
E. L. Ortiz and
A. Pham and
Ngoc Dinh Some remarks on structural relations
between the tau method and the finite
element method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--113
Yi-Tian Gao and
Bo Tian Generalized tanh method with symbolic
computation and generalized shallow
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Chiang Kao and
Huey-Chin Tang Upper bounds in spectral test for
multiple recursive random number
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M. ElHafsi and
K. Deng Production scheduling in a price
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V. N. Dorovsky A hydrodynamic nonlinear model of bubble
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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
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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
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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. Campo An algebraic solution for a $2$-D
partial differential energy equation
with a Robin boundary condition
generated from the simpler solution for
a Dirichlet boundary condition . . . . . 101--114
Deng-Jyi Chen and
Ruey-Shun Chen and
Tien-Hsiang Huang A heuristic approach to generating file
spanning trees for reliability analysis
of distributed computing systems . . . . 115--131
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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
S.-R. Jun and
Y.-H. Kwon and
S. Kang A variational spectral method for the
two-dimensional Stokes problem . . . . . 1--17
B. G. Zhang and
Chuan Jun Tian Oscillation criteria for difference
equations with unbounded delay . . . . . 19--26
D. O'Regan New fixed-points results for $1$-set
contractive set valued maps . . . . . . 27--34
P. J. Y. Wong Eventually positive and monotonely
decreasing solutions of partial
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 35--58
T. Kaczy\'nski and
M. Mrozek and
M. \'Slusarek Homology computation by reduction of
chain complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70
J. L. Cruz Soto and
M. C. Calzada Canalejo and
M. Marín Beltrán and
E. Fernández-Cara A convergence result for a parallel
algorithm for solving the Navier--Stokes
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--88
O. Rojo and
E. Montaño Some results on $h$-hypertournament
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
M. Ispány Stationarity and second-order properties
of a scalar-valued nonlinear time series
with Gaussian residuals . . . . . . . . 95--104
D. A. Clark An upper bound of $ \Sigma 1 (a_i \log
a_i) $ for quasi-primitive sequences . . 105--109
B. G. Zhang and
J. S. Yu Linearized oscillation theorems for
certain nonlinear delay partial
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M. Pinto Asymptotic summation for second-order
finite difference systems . . . . . . . 117--129
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D. A. Murio and
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S. Zhan Discrete mollification and automatic
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B. D. Craven Optimal control and invexity . . . . . . 17--25
Sui Sun Cheng and
Guo Hua Lin Green's function and stability of a
linear partial difference scheme . . . . 27--41
P. K. Moore and
L. R. Petzold and
Y. Ren Regularization of index-1
differential-algebraic equations with
rank-deficient constraints . . . . . . . 43--61
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C. H. Cooke The adjoint alternative for matrix
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--81
Ming-Po Chen and
H. Irmak and
H. M. Srivastava A certain subclass of analytic functions
involving operators of fractional
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Jen M. Han and
Maria C. Yuang A delay and loss versatile scheduling
discipline in ATM switches . . . . . . . 93--106
L. Gori and
E. Santi and
M. G. Cimoroni Projector-splines in the numerical
solution of inetgro-differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
Rong S. Lin and
Maria C. Yuang and
Steen J. Hsu Efficient minimization of homogeneous
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B. K. Roy and
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R. Barua Polynomial division using left shift
register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--31
Xinyu Song and
Lansun Chen Persistence and global stability for
nonautonomous predator--prey system with
diffusion and time delay . . . . . . . . 33--40
M. Frontini and
L. Gotusso Conservative linear models for the
vibrating string and rod free to slide,
at one end point, on a vertical guide 41--50
Yuan-Ming Wang Monotone enclosure for a class of
discrete boundary value problems without
monotone nonlinearities . . . . . . . . 51--60
Z. Q. Zhang Notes and corrections on ``Asymptotic
constancy criteria of solution of linear
parabolic Volterra difference
equations'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--63
J. S. Yu and
Ming-Po Chen and
H. Zhang Oscillation and nonoscillation in
neutral equations with integrable
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M. Raydan Dykstra's algorithm for constrained
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problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79
C.-H. Lai and
A. M. Cuffe and
K. A. Pericleous A defect equation approach for the
coupling of subdomains in domain
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A. D\kebi\'nska-Nagórska and
A. Just and
Z. Stempie\'n Analysis and semidiscrete Galerkin
approximation of a class of nonlinear
parabolic optimal control problems . . . 95--103
R. P. Agarwal and
S. S. Dragomir The property of supermultiplicity for
some classical inequalities and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--118
Ping-Qi Pan A dual projective simplex method for
linear programming . . . . . . . . . . . 119--135
Y. Yamada and
Y. Teraoka An optimal design of piping route in a
CAD system for power plant . . . . . . . 137--149
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nonlinear Schrödinger equations using
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
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J. Glimm and
M. J. Graham and
J. Grove and
X. L. Li and
T. M. Smith and
D. Tan and
F. Tangerman and
Q. Zhang Front tracking in two and three
dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11
J. J. Dongarra and
S. Hammarling and
D. W. Walker Key concepts for parallel out-of-core $
L U $ factorization . . . . . . . . . . 13--31
A. K. Pfiffer Moving Paragon\TM operating system to a
new hardware platform . . . . . . . . . 33--43
F. Saied and
G. Mahinthakumar Efficient parallel multigrid based
solvers for large scale groundwater flow
simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--54
H. Q. Ding and
R. D. Ferraro An 18 GFLOPS parallel climate data
assimilation PSAS package . . . . . . . 55--63
C. C. Ober and
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D. E. Womble and
J. Van Dyke Seismic imaging on the intel paragon . . 65--72
H. D. Cochran and
P. T. Cummings and
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S. A. Gupta and
R. K. Bhupathiraju and
P. F. LoCascio Classical molecular simulations of
complex, industrially-important systems
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Y. Wang and
G. M. Stocks and
D. M. C. Nicholson and
W. A. Shelton The first principles O[ $N$ ] LSMS
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structure of alloys . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
R. E. Tuzun and
D. W. Noid and
B. G. Sumpter Computer simulation of complex, strongly
coupled nanometer-scale systems:
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J. Lepper and
U. Schnell and
K. R. G. Hein Parallelization of a simulation code for
reactive flows on the intel paragon . . 101--109
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Xiangyang Gong and
Wanyi Chen and
Fengsheng Tu The stability and design of nonlinear
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G. A. Jullien and
W. C. Miller A fast and robust RNS algorithm for
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M.-H. Chen Multiple bifurcations in a
reaction-diffusion problem . . . . . . . 15--39
H. Nabli Performability measure for acyclic
Markovian models . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--51
M. H. AliAbadi and
E. L. Ortiz Numerical treatment of moving and free
boundary value problems with the tau
method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--61
P. Glaister An analysis of averaging procedures in a
Riemann solver for the two-dimensional
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Jinn-Kwei Guo and
Chin-Hsing Chen and
Jiann-Der Lee and
Jia-Ming Tsai $3$-D image reconstruction of brain
blood vessels from angiograms . . . . . 79--94
J. Y. Shin Finite-element approximation of a
fourth-order differential equation . . . 95--100
Wan Tong Li and
Sui Sun Cheng Asymptotic trichotomy for positive
solutions of a class of odd order
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M. Satratzemi and
K. G. Margaritis and
C. Tsouros An algorithm for prescribed multiple
domination in arbitrary graphs . . . . . 109--115
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Ky Fan minimax inequality methods . . . 17--24
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Cheh-Chih Yeh The existence of positive solutions for
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biological systems: By Bruce Hannon and
Mathias Ruth. Springer-Verlag, New York.
(1997). 399 pages. \$59.95, GDM 88.00,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleManaging usenet:
By Henry Spencer and David Lawrence.
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 492
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistical tests
for mixed linear models: By André I.
Khuri, Thomas Mathew and Bimal K. Sinha.
John Wiley and Sons, New York. (1998).
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Nan-Jing Huang Mann and Ishikawa type perturbed
iterative algorithms for generalized
nonlinear implicit quasi-variational
inclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
Nan-Jing Huang A new completely general class of
variational inclusions with noncompact
valued mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--14
G. Antonoiu and
P. K. Srimani A self-stabilizing distributed algorithm
for minimal spanning tree problem in a
symmetric graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--23
Y. Eidelman and
I. Gohberg A look-ahead block Schur algorithm for
diagonal plus semiseparable matrices . . 25--34
S. M. El-Sayed and
I. G. Ivanov and
M. G. Petkov A new modification of the Rojo method
for solving symmetric circulant
five-diagonal systems of linear
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--44
L. F. Shampine Linear conservation laws for ODEs . . . 45--53
D. Greenspan Dynamical simulation of the simplest
hydrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
S. Kim Solving singular integral equations
using Gaussian quadrature and
overdetermined system . . . . . . . . . 63--71
S. B. Leble Elementary and binary Darboux
transformations at rings . . . . . . . . 73--81
B. X. Dai and
L. H. Huang Convergence of solutions for a class of
neutral difference equations . . . . . . 83--91
C. A. Mandal and
P. P. Chakrabarti and
S. Ghose Some new results in the complexity of
allocation and binding in data path
synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--105
M. Iri Theory of uncontrollable flows --- a new
type of network-flow theory as a model
for the 21$^{\rm st}$ century of
multiple values . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--123
A. Zafer Necessary and sufficient condition for
oscillation of higher order nonlinear
delay difference equations . . . . . . . 125--130
S. S. Shen and
Shunian Zhang A quantitative study on the stability of
quadratic delay difference systems . . . 1--16
Fang-Ming Shao and
Lian-Chang Zhao Topological optimization of computer
network expansion with reliability
constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--26
V. N. Dorovsky The hydrodynamics of particles suspended
in a melt with the self-consistent
concentration field of an admixture
(Part I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--37
V. N. Dorovsky The hydrodynamics of particles suspended
in a melt with the self-consistent
concentration field of an admixture
(Part II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--47
F.-L. Luo and
R. Unbehauen and
K. Reif and
Y.-D. Li Analog approach for the
eigen-decomposition of positive definite
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--61
P. A. Ramachandran and
S. R. Karur Multidimensional interpolation using
osculatory radial basis functions . . . 63--73
A. Karageorghis and
M. Paprzycki Direct methods for spectral
approximations in nonconforming domain
decompositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--82
M. A. Amer Constructive solutions for nonlinear
multiparameter eigenvalue problems . . . 83--90
C. A. Mandal and
P. P. Chakrabarti and
S. Ghose Complexity of fragmentable object bin
packing and an application . . . . . . . 91--97
A. M. C. Ruedin and
D. C. Skigin and
R. Vaillancourt Computer solution of the scattering
problem for a groove in a metallic plane
using the modal method . . . . . . . . . 98--119
R. Qu and
R. P. Agarwal A subdivision approach to the
construction of approximate solutions of
boundary-value problems with deviating
arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--135
Anonymous List of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--xi
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiv
V. Y. Pan and
M. A. Tabanjeh and
Z. Q. Chen and
E. I. Landowne and
A. Sadikou New transformations of Cauchy matrices
and Trummer's problem . . . . . . . . . 1--5
S. Oliveira Analysis of a multigrid method for a
transport equation by numerical Fourier
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--12
P. Saucez and
A. Vande Wouwer and
W. E. Schiesser An adaptive method of lines solution of
the Korteweg--de Vries equation . . . . 13--25
S. Das and
B. Patra and
L. Debnath Stress intensity factors for an
interfacial crack between an orthotropic
half-plane bonded to a dissimilar
orthotropic layer with a punch . . . . . 27--40
G. Sarma and
T. Zacharia and
D. Miles Using High Performance Fortran for
Parallel Programming . . . . . . . . . . 41--57
S. Hill and
L. D. Humphreys Numerical mountain pass periodic
solutions of a nonlinear spring equation 59--67
G. Stoyan and
C. Mihálykó and
Z. Ulbert Convergence and nonnegativity of
numerical methods for an
integrodifferential equation describing
batch grinding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--81
M. K. El-Daou and
E. L. Ortiz A recursive formulation of Galerkin's
method in terms of the tau method:
Bounded and unbounded domains . . . . . 83--94
T. C. E. Cheng and
Q. Ding The complexity of single machine
scheduling with two distinct deadlines
and identical decreasing rates of
processing times . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
M. Boulbrachene The noncoercive quasi-variational
inequalities related to impulse control
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--108
C. Caruso and
F. Quarta Interpolation methods comparison . . . . 109--126
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . v--vii
B. G. Zhang and
Chuan Jun Tian Nonexistence and existence of positive
solutions for difference equations with
unbounded delay . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
G. A. Anastassiou and
T. Rychlik Moment problems on random rounding rules
subject to two moment conditions . . . . 9--19
T. Benouaz and
O. Arino Optimal approximation of the initial
value problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--32
M. G. El-Sheikh and
M. E. Khalifa and
V. Gavdzinski The method of integral equation
formulation and the unbounded solutions
of elastic contact problems . . . . . . 33--39
O. Rojo and
R. Soto and
H. Rojo Bounds for the spectral radius and the
largest singular value . . . . . . . . . 41--50
J. R. Cash A comparison of some codes for the stiff
oscillatory problem . . . . . . . . . . 51--57
J. Li Global pointwise error estimates for
uniformly convergent finite element
methods for the elliptic boundary layer
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
W. C. Hassenpflug Free-streamlines . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--129
M. S. Petkovic and
L. D. Petkovi\'c and
D. D. Herceg Point estimation of a family of
simultaneous zero-finding methods . . . 1--12
Zhenyu Huang Approximating fixed points of $ \Phi
$-hemicontractive mappings by the
Ishikawa iteration process with errors
in uniformly smooth Banach spaces . . . 13--21
Binxiang Dai and
Lihong Huang Asymptotic behavior of solutions for a
class of nonlinear difference equations 23--30
Zhong-Zhi Bai and
Jia-Chang Sun and
D. B. Szyld The spectral analysis of the matrix
multisplitting method for the
one-dimensional model problem . . . . . 31--38
J. P. Dauer and
K. Balachandran and
S. M. Anthoni Null controllability of nonlinear
infinite neutral systems with delays in
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--50
T. E. Simos A new hybrid imbedded variable-step
procedure for the numerical integration
of the Schrödinger equation . . . . . . . 51--63
I. K. Khabibrakhmanov and
D. Summers The use of generalized Laguerre
polynomials in spectral methods for
nonlinear differential equations . . . . 65--70
M. Sakawa and
I. Nishizaki and
Y. Uemura Interactive fuzzy programming for
multilevel linear programming problems 71--86
Jin Liang and
Tijun Xiao A characterization of norm continuity of
propagators for second order abstract
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 87--94
J. Raghavan and
V. S. Manoranjan Arnoldi--Chebyshev approach for
convection--diffusion computations . . . 95--105
N. h. Cong and
H. Podhaisky and
R. Weiner Numerical experiments with some explicit
pseudo two-step RK methods on a shared
memory computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--116
F. Fairag A two-level finite-element
discretization of the stream function
form of the Navier--Stokes equations . . 117--127
Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--134
Jingan Cui and
Lansun Chen The effect of diffusion on the time
varying logistic population growth . . . 1--9
S. C. Nandy and
B. B. Bhattacharya Maximal empty cuboids among points and
blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
H.-C. Hwang and
S. Y. Chang Parallel machines scheduling with
machine shutdowns . . . . . . . . . . . 21--31
P.-Q. Pan A basis-deficiency-allowing variation of
the simplex method for linear
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--53
H. S. Kim and
H. O. Kim and
S. Y. Shin An efficient algorithm for determining
the extreme vertices of a moving $3$D
convex polyhedron with respect to a
plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--61
G. Yan and
P. Y. H. Pang The uniqueness of the inverse obstacle
scattering problem with transmission
boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
F. J. Sánchez Application of a first-order operator
splitting method to Bingham fluid flow
simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--86
H. W. J. Lee and
K. L. Teo and
X. Q. Cai An optimal control approach to nonlinear
mixed integer programming problems . . . 87--105
V. Ayala and
O. Rojo and
R. Soto Observability of the direct product of
bilinear control systems on lie groups 107--112
Chiang Kao and
J. Y. Wong Random number generators with long
period and sound statistical properties 113--121
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLanguage, truth
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleModern compiler
implementation in Java: Revised and
expanded edition: By Andrew W. Appel.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe netscape
programmer's guide: Using OLE to build
componentware apps: By Richard B. Lam.
Cambridge University Press, New York.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleWeb Board 3.0:
Documentation by Susan B. Peck and Jay
York. O'Reilly Software, Sebastopol, CA.
(1998). \$699.00 (includes CD ROM and
350-page book)} . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--124
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBrauer groups,
Hopf algebras and Galois theory: By
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windows NT registry: By Paul Robichaux.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNearrings,
nearfields, and $K$-loops: Proceedings
of the conference on nearrings and
nearfields, Hamburg, Germany, July
30--August 6, 1995: Edited by Gerhard
Saad and Momme Johs Thomsen. Kluwer
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePartial
differential equations through examples
and exercises: By Endre Pap, Arpad
Takaci, and Djurdjica Takaci. Kluwer
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDeveloping
business systems with CORBA: By Waqar
Sadiq and Fred Cummins. Cambridge
University Press, NY. (1998). 261 pages.
\$44.95 (Includes CD-ROM)} . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHard real-time
computing systems: Predictable
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By Giorgio C. Buttazzo. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleJordan, real and
lie structures in operator algebras: By
Shavkat Ayupov, Abdugafur Rakhimov, and
Shukhrat Usmanov. Kluwer Academic
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(1997). 225 pages. NLG 195.00, \$115.00,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleR&D and
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleJava\TM gems:
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleApplied
asymptotic methods in nonlinear
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAlgorithmic and
computer methods for three-manifolds: By
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCodes and
algebraic curves: By Oliver Pretzel.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMultilevel
optimization: Algorithms and
applications: Edited by Athanasios
Migdalas, Panos M. Pardalos, and Peter
Värbrand. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (1998). 384
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBuffering
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFixed point
theory and best approximation: the
KKM-map principle: By Sankatha Singh,
Bruce Watson and Pramila Sravastava.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMarcus contextual
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNumerical
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNetwork and
netplay: Virtual groups on the Internet:
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAlgebraic model
theory: Edited by Bradd T. Hart,
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mixed-signal hardware description
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCognitive
ecology: the evolutionary ecology of
information processing and decision
making: Edited by Reuven Dukas.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
IL. (1998). 420 pages. \$95.00, GBP
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleConstraint-based
design recovery for software
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Quilici, and Qiang Yang. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeometry, fields
and cosmology: Techniques and
applications: Edited by B. R. Iyer and
C. V. Vishveshwara. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
multivalued analysis. Volume I: Theory:
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Papageorgiou. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleObject modeling
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUpgrading
relational databases with objects: By
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X.-Z. Guo and
I. N. Katz Performance enhancement of the multi-
$p$ preconditioner . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
J. A. Ezquerro and
J. M. Gutiérrez and
M. A. Hernández and
M. A. Salanova The application of an inverse-free
Jarratt-type approximation to nonlinear
integral equations of Hammerstein-type 9--20
D. Lasser and
T. Stüttgen Interior improvement of piecewise linear
interpolants defined over Delaunay
triangulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--36
B. Bassett $ \int e^{-x^2} \, d x $ and the Kink
soliton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--45
J.-Y. Lee and
K. Jeong A parallel Poisson solver using the fast
multipole method on networks of
workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--61
M. N. Malik and
M. Afzal and
G. F. Tariq and
N. Ahmed Mathematical modeling and computer
simulation of transient flow in
centrifuge cascade pipe network with
optimizing techniques . . . . . . . . . 63--76
Zi-Cai Li New discrete techniques for $3$D image
transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--109
M. Z. Raqab Order statistics from the Burr type $X$
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--120
Anonymous Book report Book report . . . . . . . . 121--130
S. Siboni Complex/generalized
arithmetico-geometric maps and elliptic
integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Jiafu Tang and
Dingwei Wang and
A. Ip and
R. Y. K. Fung A hybrid genetic algorithm for a type of
nonlinear programming problem . . . . . 11--21
G. A. Frolov and
M. Y. Kitaev Improvement of accuracy in numerical
methods for inverting Laplace transforms
based on the Post--Widder formula . . . 23--34
G. A. Frolov and
M. Y. Kitaev A problem of numerical inversion of
implicitly defined Laplace transforms 35--44
A. W. Fu and
W. K. Lau and
F. K. Ng and
M. H. Wong Hypercube quorum consensus for mutual
exclusion and replicated data management 45--59
T. Dudás and
B. Klinz and
G. J. Woeginger The computational complexity of the $
\kappa $-minimum spanning tree problem
in graded matrices . . . . . . . . . . . 61--67
T.-H. Hsieh and
Z. Gajic An algorithm for solving the singularly
perturbed $ H_\infty $ algebraic Riccati
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
J. M. Hyman and
M. Shashkov Approximation of boundary conditions for
mimetic finite-difference methods . . . 79--99
U. Amato and
D. T. Vuza Wavelet simultaneous approximation from
samples affected by noise . . . . . . . 101--111
A.-E. Al-Ayyoub and
K. Day Block-cyclic matrix triangulation on the
Cartesian product of star graphs . . . . 113--126
Wei Xiao and
Zhibin Liu and
Maoze Jiang and
Y. Shi Multiobjective linear programming model
on injection oilfield recovery system 127--135
Zhan Zhou and
Jianshe Yu and
Zhicheng Wang Global attractivity of neutral
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Zhenguo Zhang and
Qiaoluan Li Oscillation theorems for second-order
advanced functional difference equations 11--18
M. Kaykobad and
Md. M. Islam and
M. E. Amyeen and
M. M. Murshed 3 is a more promising algorithmic
parameter than 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
I. P. Boglaev Finite difference domain decomposition
algorithms for a parabolic problem with
boundary layers . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--40
B. D. Choi and
Y. C. Kim and
Y. W. Lee The M/M/c retrial queue with geometric
loss and feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 41--52
Jianhua Shen and
Xianhua Tang New oscillation criteria for linear
delay differential equations . . . . . . 53--61
K. Li Average-case performance analysis of an
approximation algorithm for maximum
subset sum using recurrence relations 63--75
Yuan-Ming Wang Monotone methods for a boundary value
problem of second-order discrete
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--92
M. L. Brodzik The computation of simplicial
approximations of implicitly defined
$p$-dimensional manifolds . . . . . . . 93--113
M. M. Nazeer and
M. Afzal and
A. F. Khan and
N. Ahmed Mathematical modeling and computer
simulation of two orthogonally forced
transverse vibrations in multisegment
hanging cantilever . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
Chiang Kao and
Hui-Chin Tang Several extensively tested multiple
recursive random number generators . . . 129--136
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDynamics:
Numerical explorations: (Second, Revised
and Enlarged Edition). By Helena E.
Nusse and James A. Yorke. Springer, New
York. (1998). 608 pages. \$69.95
(diskette included)} . . . . . . . . . . 138--138
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIntelligent image
databases: Towards advanced image
retrieval: By Yihong Gong. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston, MA. (1998).
134 pages. \$95.00, NLG 205.00, GBP
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThermal
management of electronic systems II:
Proceedings of EUROTHERM seminar 45,
20-22 September 1995, Leuven, Belgium:
Edited by E. Beyne, C. J. M. Lasance and
J. Berghmans. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputational
geometry: Algorithms and applications:
By Mark de Berg, Marc van Kreveld, Mark
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super-Halley method . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
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product of cycles . . . . . . . . . . . 9--21
Hsiao-Fan Wang and
C. H. Wang A fixed-charge model with fuzzy
inequality constraints composed by
max-product operator . . . . . . . . . . 23--29
S. M. Choo and
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for the Cahn--Hilliard equation . . . . 31--39
Y.-H. Chen and
S.-C. Fang Solving convex programming problems with
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I. H. Moon and
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equations for renal concentrating
mechanism in inner medullary vasa recta
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
Baoding Liu Stackelberg--Nash equilibrium for
multilevel programming with multiple
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J. Li A robust finite element method for a
singularly perturbed elliptic problem
with two small parameters . . . . . . . 91--110
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structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--130
Hung-Min Sun and
Shiuh-Pyng Shieh Secret sharing schemes for graph-based
prohibited structures . . . . . . . . . 131--140
X. Liu and
Shenghai Zhang A cell population model described by
impulsive PDEs --- Existence and
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Jarratt method in Banach space . . . . . 13--18
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involving oscillatory and singular
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P. Y. H. Pang Uniqueness of the inverse conductive
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M. Telek and
A. Pfening and
G. Fodor An effective numerical method to compute
the moments of the completion time of
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Z. Jackiewicz and
B. Owren and
B. Welfert Pseudospectra of waveform relaxation
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--85
Wan Tong Li and
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Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, Marek
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programming: Eighth Edition, Year 2000
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York. (1999). 722 pages. \$75.95
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe economics of
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
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included)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--122
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTheory of linear
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAlgorithmic
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\$95.00 (hardback), \$39.95 (paperback) 123--123
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDigital Signal
Processing Algorithms: Number Theory,
Convolution, Fast Fourier Transforms,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFast parallel
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleReasoning with
the infinite: From the closed world to
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleExercises in
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleEngineering
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFinite element
analysis for composite structures: By
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePalmPilot: the
ultimate guide: By David Pogue.
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 489
pages. \$29.95 (CD ROM included)} . . . 124--124
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAtlas for
computing mathematical functions: an
illustrated guide for practitioners,
with programs in Fortran 90 and
Mathematica: By William J. Thompson.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
(1997). \$145.00 (CD-ROM included)} . . 125--125
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIUTAM symposium
on lubricated transport of viscous
materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM
symposium held in Tobago, West Indies,
7--10 January 1997: Edited by H.
Ramkissoon. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleScalable high
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleElectronic
multimedia publishing: Enabling
technologies and authoring issues:
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definitive guide (third edition): By D.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMethods in
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePartial
differential equations for computational
science: With Maple\reg and vector
analysis: By David Betounes. Springer,
New York. (1998). \$64.95, sFr 116.50,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSet theory:
Techniques and applications, Curaçao 1995
and Barcelona 1996 conferences: Edited
by Carlos Augusto Di Prisco, Jean A.
Larson, Joan Bagaria and A. R. D.
Mathias. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht. (1998). 226 pages. \$99.00,
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K. Varga Nearly unstable AR models with
coefficient matrices in Jordan normal
form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
B. G. Zhang and
Jun Yan and
S. K. Choi Oscillation for difference equations
with continuous variable . . . . . . . . 11--18
P. J. Y. Wong Triple positive solutions of conjugate
boundary value problems . . . . . . . . 19--35
J. H. Reif Efficient approximate solution of sparse
linear systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--58
M. R. Crisci and
E. Russo and
A. Vecchio Time point relaxation methods for
Volterra integro-differential equations 59--70
Y. J. Ahn and
H. O. Kim Curvatures of the quadratic rational
Bézier curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--83
R. K. Bera Propagation of waves in random rotating
infinite magneto-thermo-visco-elastic
medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--102
Anonymous List of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--x
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi--xii
Ravi P. Agarwal Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv--xv
J. Henderson and
E. R. Kaufmann Focal boundary value problems for
singular difference equations . . . . . 1--10
P. J. Y. Wong and
R. P. Agarwal Oscillations and nonoscillations of
half-linear difference equations
generated by deviating arguments . . . . 11--26
A. Zafer The existence of positive solutions and
oscillation of solutions of higher-order
difference equations with forcing terms 27--35
C. V. Pao Monotone methods for a finite difference
system of reaction diffusion equation
with time delay . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--47
D. Greenspan Dynamical difference equations . . . . . 49--58
Z. Bashir-Ali and
J. R. Cash and
H. H. M. Silva Lobatto deferred correction for stiff
two-point boundary value problems . . . 59--69
B. Aulbach and
N. Van Minh and
P. P. Zabreiko Structural stability of linear
difference equations in Hilbert space 71--76
M. R. Crisci and
V. B. Kolmanovskii and
E. Russo and
A. Vecchio Stability of difference Volterra
equations: Direct Liapunov method and
numerical procedure . . . . . . . . . . 77--97
F. Atici and
A. Peterson Bounds for positive solutions for a
focal boundary value problem . . . . . . 99--107
P. W. Eloe A generalization of concavity for finite
differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
R. P. Agarwal and
D. O'Regan A fixed-point approach for nonlinear
discrete boundary value problems . . . . 115--121
Horng-Jaan Li and
Cheh-Chih Yeh Oscillation criteria for second-order
neutral delay difference equations . . . 123--132
H. W. J. Lee and
K. L. Teo and
V. Rehbock Suboptimal local feedback control for a
class of constrained discrete time
nonlinear control problems . . . . . . . 133--148
Chuan-Jun Tian and
Sheng-Li Xie and
Sui Sun Cheng Measures for oscillatory sequences . . . 149--161
H. Bavinck and
R. Koekoek Difference operators with Sobolev type
Meixner polynomials as eigenfunctions 163--177
M. Bohner Discrete linear Hamiltonian eigenvalue
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--192
Sheng-Chen Fu and
Long-Yi Tsai Oscillation in nonlinear difference
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--201
J. S. Yu Asymptotic stability for a linear
difference equation with variable delay 203--210
K. Grote and
R. Meyer-Spasche Euler-like discrete models of the
logistic differential equation . . . . . 211--225
O. Do\vslý Factorization of disconjugate
higher-order Sturm--Liouville difference
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--234
B. G. Zhang and
S. T. Liu Oscillation of partial difference
equations with variable coefficients . . 235--242
K. Balla Asymptotic behavior of certain Riccati
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 243--250
N. Kuchkina and
L. Shaikhet Optimal control of Volterra type
stochastic difference equations . . . . 251--259
W. F. Trench Linear asymptotic equilibrium and
uniform, exponential, and strict
stability of linear difference systems 261--267
L. Brugnano and
D. Trigiante Boundary value methods: the third way
between linear multistep and
Runge--Kutta methods . . . . . . . . . . 269--284
R. E. Mickens Asymptotic properties of solutions to
discrete Coulomb equations . . . . . . . 285--289
E. Thandapani and
M. M. S. Manuel and
J. R. Graef and
P. W. Spikes Monotone properties of certain classes
of solutions of second-order difference
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--297
A. Zafer and
B. Kaymakçalan and
S. A. Özgün Asymptotic behavior of higher-order
nonlinear equations on time scales . . . 299--306
A. Halanay and
V. Ionescu Time-varying discrete Hamiltonian
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--326
X. Liu and
X. Fu Stability criteria in terms of two
measures for discrete systems . . . . . 327--337
V. Lakshmikantham and
S. Sivasundaram Stability of moving invariant sets and
uncertain dynamic systems on time scales 339--346
R. P. Agarwal and
J. Henderson Positive solutions and nonlinear
eigenvalue problems for third-order
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 347--355
R. P. Agarwal and
M. Pituk Convergence to equilibria in recurrence
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--368
B. Shi and
Z. C. Wang and
J. S. Yu Stability and boundedness in difference
systems with finite delay . . . . . . . 369--376
E. Romanenko Attractors of continuous difference
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--390
M. Pinto Weighted convergent and bounded
solutions of difference systems . . . . 391--400
A. M. Amleh and
J. Hoag and
G. Ladas A difference equation with eventually
periodic solutions . . . . . . . . . . . 401--404
Shunian Zhang and
Ming-Po Chen A new Razumikhin theorem for delay
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 405--412
E. Thandapani and
S. Pandian Asymptotic and oscillatory behavior of
solutions of general nonlinear
difference equations of second order . . 413--421
P. Y. H. Pang and
R. P. Agarwal Stability of a general class of
difference systems . . . . . . . . . . . 423--429
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--v
M. Arató and
S. Baran and
M. Ispány Functionals of complex
Ornstein--Uhlenbeck processes . . . . . 1--13
W. Marszalek and
S. L. Campbell DAEs arising from traveling wave
solutions of PDEs II . . . . . . . . . . 15--34
Jian Li and
W. W. Sun Spectral method of decoupling the
vorticity and stream function for the
incompressible fluid flows . . . . . . . 35--40
R. Baltensperger and
J.-P. Berrut The errors in calculating the
pseudospectral differentiation matrices
for \vCeby\vsev--Gauss--Lobatto points 41--48
W. R. Ferng and
Wen-Wei Lin and
Chern-Shuh Wang Numerical algorithms for undamped
gyroscopic systems . . . . . . . . . . . 49--66
R. Piziak and
P. L. Odell and
R. Hahn Constructing projections on sums and
intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74
V. Kiryakova and
B. Al-Saqabi Explicit solutions to hyper-Bessel
integral equations of second kind . . . 75--86
L. Aizenberg and
V. Adamchik and
V. E. Levit One computational approach in support of
the Riemann hypothesis . . . . . . . . . 87--94
Yun-Kung Chung Application of a cascade BAM neural
expert system to conceptual design for
facility layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--110
D. F. Berner and
J. A. Snyman The influence of joint angle constraints
on the optimum design of a planar robot
manipulator following a complicated
prescribed path . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
F. E. Udwadia and
F. E. Kalaba A unified approach for the recursive
determination of generalized inverses 125--130
Chong Li and
G. A. Watson Best simultaneous approximation of an
infinite set of functions . . . . . . . 1--9
G. Pap and
M. C. A. Van Zuijlen Asymptotic properties of nearly unstable
multivariate AR processes . . . . . . . 11--19
D. G. Vyridis and
S. D. Panteliou and
I. N. Katz An inverse convergence approach for
arguments of Jacobian elliptic functions 21--26
Yinnian He and
R. M. M. Mattheij The coupling of boundary integral and
finite element methods for the exterior
steady Oseen problem . . . . . . . . . . 27--40
R. E. Kalaba and
H. H. Natsuyama and
S. Ueno The estimation of parameters in
time-dependent transport problems:
Dynamic programming and associative
memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--45
S. Yu. Reutskiy and
B. Tirozzi Quasi-Trefftz spectral method for
separable linear elliptic equations . . 47--74
P. Glaister Riemann solvers with primitive parameter
vectors for two-dimensional compressible
flows of a real gas . . . . . . . . . . 75--92
F. A. Milner and
C. A. Patton A new approach to mathematical modeling
of host-parasite systems . . . . . . . . 93--110
T. I. Gündem Near optimal multiple choice index
selection for relational databases . . . 111--120
Anonymous Book report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Zhenyu Huang Mann and Ishikawa iterations with errors
for asymptotically nonexpansive mappings 1--7
Mingshu Peng and
Qianli Xu and
Lihong Huang and
Weigao Ge Asymptotic and oscillatory behavior of
solutions of certain second-order
nonlinear difference equations . . . . . 9--18
Min-Shiang Hwang An improvement of a dynamic
cryptographic key assignment scheme in a
tree hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--22
Xie Ping Ding and
Chun Lin Luo Existence and algorithm for solving some
generalized mixed variational
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--30
Yu-Ru Syau Preinvex fuzzy mappings . . . . . . . . 31--39
P. Liu and
Lansun Chen and
X. Cui A discrete analogue of an
integrodifferential equation . . . . . . 41--55
T. W. H. Sheu and
C. C. Fang and
S. F. Tsai Application of an element-by-element
BiCGSTAB iterative solver to a monotonic
finite element model . . . . . . . . . . 57--70
M. K. Mayer A network parallel genetic algorithm for
the one machine sequencing problem . . . 71--78
W. W. Koczkodaj and
M. Orlowski Computing a consistent approximation to
a generalized pairwise comparisons
matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--85
Hung-Min Sun and
Shiuh-Pyng Shieh Recursive constructions for perfect
secret sharing schemes . . . . . . . . . 87--96
M. M. Balakrishnarajan and
P. Venuvanalingam A semantic tree algorithm for the
generation of sextet polynomials of
hexagonal systems . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
D. J. Reid Optimising the distributed execution of
join queries in polynomial time . . . . 105--126
Anonymous Errata to ``Oscillation criteria for a
nonlinear difference equation'' . . . . 127--127
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFocal boundary
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeometry of
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeometry of
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMPI --- The
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\$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMPI-The complete
reference: Volume 2, the MPI-2
extensions: By William Gropp, Steven
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Marc Snir. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1998). 344 pages. \$35.00} . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNondifferentiable
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleArtificial life
VI: Proceedings of the sixth
international conference on artificial
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Taylor. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1998). 498 pages. \$65.00} . . . . . . 131--132
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGenetic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHarmonic analysis
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBe\TM: Advanced
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O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 365
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete and
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
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Vatsala. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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NLG 260.00, GBP 89.00} . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
mathematics and computational science:
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePartial
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Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998).
277 pages. \$129.00, NLG 240.00, GBP
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAlgorithms and
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OBDD-Foundations and applications: By
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Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (1998). 267
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDNA computing:
New computing paradigms: By G. Paun, G.
Rozenberg and A. Salomaa.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleExploring
mathematics with scientific notebook: By
Wei-Chi Yang and Jonathan Lewin.
Springer-Verlag, Singapore. (1998). 209
pages. \$24.50, DM 49.00, {{\"o}S}
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Matlab\reg 5
handbook: By Darren Redfern and Colin
Campbell. Springer-Verlag, New York.
(1998). 488 pages. \$34.95, DM 69.00,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleProgramming with
data: a guide to the $S$ language: By
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York. (1998). 469 pages. \$39.95, DM
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData, statistics,
and decision models with Excel: By
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
(1998). 605 pages. \$93.95 (2 diskettes
included)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGraphics
programming in C++: By Mark Walmsley.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHigh level motion
processing: Computational,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA history of the
modern fact: Problems of knowledge in
the sciences of wealth and society: By
Mary Poovey. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago. (1998). 419 pages.
\$49.00, \pounds 39.25 (cloth); \$17.00,
\pounds 13.50 (paper) . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInitial
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInside the
database object model: By Donald K.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputing for
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData structure
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library in C++: By Joseph Bergin.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInteractive
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Deeba and Ananda Gunawardena.
Springer-Verlag, New York. (1998). 316
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleModelling
systems: Practical tools and techniques
in software development: By John
Fitzgerald and Peter Larsen. Cambridge
University Press, New York. (1998). 269
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(paperback) (CD-ROM included) . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
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Goodman. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleRegression
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Efin A. Galperin Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiv
N. V. Azbelev Impact of certain traditions on
development of the theory of
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1--8
E. A. Galperin Some old traditions in mathematics and
in mathematical education . . . . . . . 9--17
D. Molodtsov Soft set theory --- First results . . . 19--31
I. M. Sobol' and
Yu. L. Levitan A Pseudo-Random Number Generator for
Personal Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 33--40
Quan Zheng and
Liansheng Zhang Global minimization of constrained
problems with discontinuous penalty
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--58
P. Ya. Ekel Approach to decision making in fuzzy
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--71
R. T. Yanushevsky A class of nonlinear time-delay systems
and related optimal problems . . . . . . 73--78
M. E. Drakhlin and
E. Litsyn and
E. Stepanov Variational methods for a class of
nonlocal functionals . . . . . . . . . . 79--100
A. Balbas and
P. Jimenez and
A. Heras Duality theory and slackness conditions
in multiobjective linear programming . . 101--109
E. A. Galperin and
M. M. Wiecek Retrieval and use of the balance set in
multiobjective global optimization . . . 111--123
V. V. Kovacevi\'c-Vujci\'c and
M. M. Cangalovi\'c and
M. D. Asi\'c and
L. Ivanovi\'c and
M. Drazi\'c TABU search methodology in global
optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
M. M. Kostreva and
W. Ogryczak and
D. W. Tonkyn Relocation problems arising in
conservation biology . . . . . . . . . . 135--150
Xing-Chen Pan and
Quan Zheng Global optimum shape design . . . . . . 151--162
V. P. Gergel and
Ya. D. Sergeyev Sequential and parallel algorithms for
global minimizing functions with
Lipschitzian derivatives . . . . . . . . 163--179
M.-H. Wang and
Y.-E. Kuo A perturbation method for solving linear
semi-infinite programming problems . . . 181--198
E. A. Galperin Linear time algorithms for linear
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--208
H. A. Zedan Equivalence transformation for the
filtration problem . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Nan-Jing Huang and
Min-Ru Bai A perturbed iterative procedure for
multivalued pseudo-contractive mappings
and multivalued accretive mappings in
Banach spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--15
Wan-Tong Li and
Xian-Ling Fan Oscillation criteria for second-order
nonlinear difference equations with
damped term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--30
C. Tsitouras A high-order explicit Runge--Kutta pair
for initial value problems with
oscillating solutions . . . . . . . . . 31--36
Yuchuan Wei Triangular function analysis . . . . . . 37--56
Xie Ping Ding The generalized vector
quasi-variational-like inequalities . . 57--67
W. C. Rheinboldt and
B. Simeon Computing smooth solutions of DAEs for
elastic multibody systems . . . . . . . 69--83
Horng-Twu Liaw Broadcasting cryptosystem in computer
networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
A. E. Köhler Fuzzy symmetries of point ensembles . . 89--113
A. R. Khan and
P. P. Choudhury and
K. Dihidar and
R. Verma Text compression using two-dimensional
cellular automata . . . . . . . . . . . 115--127
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFocal boundary
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difference equations: By Ravi P.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeometry of
vector sheaves: an axiomatic approach to
differential geometry. Volume I: Vector
sheaves. general theory: By Anastosios
Mallios. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht. (1998). 441 pages. \$350.00,
NLG 650.00, GBP 220.00 for 2 volume set} 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeometry of
vector sheaves: an axiomatic approach to
differential geometry. Volume II:
Geometry. examples and applications: By
Anastosios Mallios. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998). 436
pages. \$350.00, NLG 650.00, GBP 220.00
for 2 volume set} . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMPI --- The
complete reference: Volume 1, the MPI
core, second edition: By Marc Snir,
Steve Otto, Steven Huss-Lederman, David
Walker and Jack Dongarra. MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA (1998). 426 pages.
\$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMPI-The complete
reference: Volume 2, the MPI-2
extensions: By William Gropp, Steven
Huss-Lederman, Andrew Lumsdaine, Ewing
Lusk, Bill Nitzberg, William Saphir and
Marc Snir. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1998). 344 pages. \$35.00} . . . . . . 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNondifferentiable
optimization and polynomial problems: By
Naum Z. Shor. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Boston, MA. (1998). 394
pages. \$179.00, NLG 330.00, GBP 113.00} 130--130
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleArtificial life
VI: Proceedings of the sixth
international conference on artificial
life: Edited by Christoph Adami, Richard
K. Belew, Hiroaki Kitano and Charles
Taylor. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1998). 498 pages. \$65.00} . . . . . . 131--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleEvolutionary
games and equilibrium selection: By
Larry Samuelson. MIT Press, Cambridge,
MA. (1997). 309 pages. \$20.00} . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGenetic
programming and data structures: Genetic
programming + data structures =
automatic programming: By W. B. Langdon.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
(1998). 278 pages. \$125.00. NLG 285.00,
GBP 85.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHarmonic analysis
in hypercomplex systems: By Yu. M.
Berezansky and A. A. Kalyuzhnyi. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998).
483 pages. \$238.00, NLG 440.00, GBP
149.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA history of
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MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1998). 398
pages. \$35.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe invisible
computer: Why good products can fail,
the personal computer is so complex and
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\$25.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleWeb performance
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Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 351 pages.
\$32.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--132
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleApplications of
point set theory in real analysis: By A.
B. Kharazishvili. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998). 236
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBe&TM: Advanced
topics: By the Be Development Team.
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 365
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete and
fractional programming techniques for
location models: By Ana Isabel Barros.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
(1998). 178 pages. \$97.00, NLG 180.00,
GBP 62.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGraphical models
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Press, Cambridge, MA. (1998). 195 pages.
\$32.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
quasilinearization for nonlinear
problems: By V. Lakshmikantham and A. S.
Vatsala. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht. (1998). 276 pages. \$140.00,
NLG 260.00, GBP 89.00} . . . . . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
mathematics and computational science:
By John W. Harris and Horst Stocker.
Springer-Verlag, New York. (1998). 1028
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292.00, sFr 37.00, GBP 19.50} . . . . . 133--133
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe new
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Robertson. Oxford University Press, New
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePartial
differential equations and boundary
value problems: By Viorel Barbu. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998).
277 pages. \$129.00, NLG 240.00, GBP
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAlgorithms and
data structures in VLSI design:
OBDD-Foundations and applications: By
Christoph Meinel and Thorsten Theobald.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (1998). 267
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577.00, sFr 72.00, GBP 30.50} . . . . . 134--134
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputational
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Hughes. Springer-Verlag, New York.
(1998). 392 pages. \$59.95, DM 124.00,
{{\"o}S} 906.00, sFr 113.00, GBP 47.50} 134--134
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDNA computing:
New computing paradigms: By G. Paun, G.
Rozenberg and A. Salomaa.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (1998). 402
pages. \$59.95, DM 89.00, {{\"o}S}
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleExploring
mathematics with scientific notebook: By
Wei-Chi Yang and Jonathan Lewin.
Springer-Verlag, Singapore. (1998). 209
pages. \$24.50, DM 49.00, {{\"o}S}
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Matlab\reg 5
handbook: By Darren Redfern and Colin
Campbell. Springer-Verlag, New York.
(1998). 488 pages. \$34.95, DM 69.00,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleProgramming with
data: a guide to the $S$ language: By
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData, statistics,
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Donald L. Harnett and James F. Horrell.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGraphics
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA history of the
modern fact: Problems of knowledge in
the sciences of wealth and society: By
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Press, Chicago. (1998). 419 pages.
\$49.00, \pounds 39.25 (cloth); \$17.00,
\pounds 13.50 (paper) . . . . . . . . . 135--135
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database object model: By Donald K.
Burleson. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputing for
scientists: Principles of programming
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData structure
programming: With the standard template
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInteractive
linear algebra with Maple V: By Elias
Deeba and Ananda Gunawardena.
Springer-Verlag, New York. (1998). 316
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleModelling
systems: Practical tools and techniques
in software development: By John
Fitzgerald and Peter Larsen. Cambridge
University Press, New York. (1998). 269
pages. \$85.00 (hardback); \$39.95
(paperback) (CD-ROM included) . . . . . 136--136
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
stochastic processes: a friendly
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleRegression
graphics: Ideas for studying regressions
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Shih-Sen Chang and
H. B. Thompson and
G. X.-Z. Yuan The existence theorems of solutions for
generalized vector-valued
variational-like inequalities . . . . . 1--9
X. H. Tang and
J. S. Yu Oscillation of delay difference equation 11--20
H. Park and
K. Park and
Y. Cho Analysis of the variable length nonzero
window method for exponentiation . . . . 21--29
B. I. Yun and
S. Lee Double layer potential scheme for
Dirichlet problems on smooth open arcs 31--40
V. N. Dorovsky Absorption of particles from a melt by
the surface of a bubble of variable size
--- Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--59
Zhidong Teng and
Lansun Chen Uniform persistence and existence of
strictly positive solutions in
nonautonomous Lotka--Volterra
competitive systems with delays . . . . 61--71
Chin-Sung Liu and
Ching-Hung Tseng Space-decomposition minimization method
for large-scale minimization problems 73--88
Biao Yang and
L. Qiu and
T. Mitsui GP $_G$-stability of Runge--Kutta
methods for generalized delay
differential systems . . . . . . . . . . 89--97
M. C. Cowgill and
R. J. Harvey and
L. T. Watson A genetic algorithm approach to cluster
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--108
I. K. Argyros A new convergence theorem for the
inexact Newton methods based on
assumptions involving the second Fréchet
derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--115
R. Kumar and
A. Miglani and
L. Debnath Radial displacements of an infinite
liquid saturated porous medium with
cylindrical cavity . . . . . . . . . . . 117--123
Rong S. Lin and
Maria C. Yuang Synchronization paradigm for protocol
testing under multiparty configuration 125--135
Anonymous Errata to ``Mathematical modeling and
computer simulation of transient flow in
centrifuge cascade pipe network with
optimizing techniques'' . . . . . . . . 137--138
Anonymous Book reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--146
M. Arató In memory of Paul Erd\Hos: March 26,
1913--September 20, 1996 . . . . . . . . 1--2
C.-S. Chien and
W.-W. Lin and
Z. Mei Conjugate gradient type methods for
semilinear elliptic problems with
symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--22
A. S. M. Wong and
Y. C. Hon and
T. S. Li and
S. L. Chung and
E. J. Kansa Multizone decomposition for simulation
of time-dependent problems using the
multiquadric scheme . . . . . . . . . . 23--43
R. U. Verma G-H-KKM type theorems and their
applications to a new class of minimax
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Zhuang Wan and
Yubo Chen and
Jie Chen Remarks on the periodic boundary value
problems for first-order differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
L. Anand and
D. Ghose and
V. Mani ELISA: an estimated load information
scheduling algorithm for distributed
computing systems . . . . . . . . . . . 57--85
J. Brimberg and
R. F. Love Local convexity results in a generalized
Fermat--Weber problem . . . . . . . . . 87--97
R. P. Agarwal and
D. O'Regan Multiple solutions for the Dirichlet
second-order boundary value problem of
nonsingular type . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
S. Sundar and
B. K. Bhagavan and
K. S. Sastri Comparison of Lanczos and CGS solvers
for solving numerical heat transfer
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--117
Jen-Chwan Liu and
K. Yokoyama $ \epsilon $-Optimality and duality for
multiobjective fractional programming 119--128
S. Y. Yan and
G. James Fast group operations on elliptic curves
in Maple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--138
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFrom animals to
animats 5: Proceedings of the fifth
international conference on simulation
of adaptive behavior: Edited by Rolf
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Meyer and Stewart W. Wilson. MIT Press,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdvanced
techniques for embedded systems desion
and test: Edited by Juan Carlos López,
Román Hermida and Walter Geisselhardt.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFormal
equivalence checking and design
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMechanics of
sandwich structures: Proceedings of the
EUROMECH 360 colloquim held in
Saint-Étienne, France, 13-15 May 1997:
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
nonlinear programming: Proceedings of
the 96 international conference on
nonlinear programming: Edited by
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLogics for
databases and information systems:
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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
(1998). 430 pages. \$79.95, NLG 175.00,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in robot
kinematics: Analysis and control: Edited
by Jadran Lenar\vcic and Manfred L.
Husty. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBasic topological
structures of ordinary differential
equations: By V. V. Filippov. Kluwer
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNew trends in
mathematical programming: Homage to
Steven Vajda: Edited by Franco
Giannessi, Sándor Komlósi and Tamás Rapcsák.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleRandom fields and
stochastic partial differential
equations: By Yu. A. Rozanov. Kluwer
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCross-Language
information retrieval: Edited by Gregory
Grefenstette. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDynamic modules:
User's manual and programming guide for
MuPAD 1.4: By Andreas Sorgatz.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (1999). 234
pages. \$59.95, DM 89.00, {{\"o}S}
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included)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePalm programming:
the developer's guide: By Neil Rhodes
and Julie McKeehan. O'Reilly,
Sebastopol, CA. (1999). 457 pages.
\$32.95 (CD-ROM included)} . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleUntangling
ecological complexity: the macroscopic
perspective: By Brian A. Maurer.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
(1999). 251 pages. \$50.00, \pounds
39.95 (cloth); \$18.00, \pounds 14.50
(paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--145
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Verilog\reg
hardware description language (fourth
edition): By Donald E. Thomas and Philip
R. Moorby. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Boston, MA. (1998). 354 pages. \$98.00,
NLG 225.00, GBP 66.70 (CD-ROM included)} 145--145
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe complete
Verilog book: By Vivek Sagdeo. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Boston, MA. (1998).
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleComputational
visualization: Graphics, abstraction,
and interactivity: By Thomas Strothotte.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (1998). 459
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nutshell: a desktop quick reference: By
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTime-varying
systems and computations: By Patrick
Dewilde and Alle-Jan Van Der Veen.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
(1998). 459 pages. \$122.00, NLG 280.00,
GBP 83.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--146
K. Maleknejad and
M. Hadizadeh A new computational method for
Volterra--Fredholm integral equations 1--8
Luoluo Li Estimation for matrix singular values 9--15
Shih Sen Chang The Mann and Ishikawa iterative
approximation of solutions to
variational inclusions with accretive
type mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--24
R. P. Agarwal and
D. O'Regan Existence of solutions to singular
integral equations . . . . . . . . . . . 25--29
Shunian Zhang Estimate of total stability of delay
difference systems . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
R. P. Agarwal and
D. O'Regan Multiple solutions for higher-order
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 39--48
P. Wang and
R. D. Ferraro Parallel multigrid finite volume
computation of three-dimensional thermal
convection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--60
Horng-Twu Liaw The design of an arithmetic coding
mechanism to determine relationships in
a hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--71
R. K. Raina and
H. M. Srivastava Some subclasses of analytic functions
associated with fractional calculus
operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--84
S. Zhan and
D. A. Murio Surface fitting and numerical gradient
computations by discrete mollification 85--102
I. Babuska and
C. E. Baumann and
J. T. Oden A discontinuous $ h p $ finite element
method for diffusion problems: $1$-D
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--122
J. E. Castillo and
J. S. Otto A practical guide to direct optimization
for planar grid-generation . . . . . . . 123--156
A. P. Punnen and
K. P. K. Nair Constrained balanced optimization
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--163
Peixuan Weng and
Daqing Jiang Existence of positive solutions for
boundary value problem of second-order
FDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
M. I. Syam and
S. M. Al-Sharo Collocation-continuation technique for
solving nonlinear ordinary boundary
value problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
Chyi Hwang and
Jia-Chyu Guo and
Tong-Yi Guo An FFT-based algorithm for $2$D power
series expansions . . . . . . . . . . . 19--27
Nan-Jing Huang and
Ya-Ping Liu and
Ya-Yong Tang and
Min-Ru Bai The generalized set-valued strongly
nonlinear implicit variational
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
D. P. Jacobs and
V. Trevisan Linear-time LUP decomposition of
forest-like matrices . . . . . . . . . . 37--50
M. De la Sen Adaptive stabilization of first-order
systems using estimates modification
based on a Sylvester determinant test 51--62
S.-C. Fang and
C.-F. Hu and
H.-F. Wang and
S.-Y. Wu Linear programming with fuzzy
coefficients in constraints . . . . . . 63--76
M. D. Gunzburger and
J. S. Peterson and
H. Kwon An optimization based domain
decomposition method for partial
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 77--93
P. R. Johnston Calculating surface Laplacians as a
boundary element method postprocess . . 95--103
S. Azhar and
J. H. Reif Efficient algorithmic learning of the
structure of permutation groups by
examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--132
Pei Chann Chang A branch and bound approach for single
machine scheduling with earliness and
tardiness penalties . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
D. Hinestroza and
D. A. Murio and
S. Zhan Regularization techniques for nonlinear
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--159
Xian Wu Existence theorems of solutions for a
kind of quasi-variational inequalities
with monotone type multivalued mapping 161--166
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFundamentals of
neural network modeling: Neuropsychology
and cognitive neuroscience: Edited by
Randolph W. Parks, Daniel S. Levine and
Debra L. Long. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
(1998). 428 pages. \$60.00} . . . . . . 168--168
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
convexity, generalized monotonicity:
Recent results: Edited by Jean-Pierre
Crouzeix, Juan-Enrique Martinez-Legaz
and Michel Volle. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998). 467
pages. \$208.00, NLG 385.00, GBP 130.00} 168--168
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleVector bundles
and their applications: By Glenys Luke
and Alexander S. Mishchenko. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998).
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdaptive
hypertext and hypermedia: Edited by
Peter Brusilovsky, Alfred Kobsa and
Julita Vassileva. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998). 252
pages. \$98.00, NLG 175.00, GBP 59.00} 169--169
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCultural
boundaries of science: Credibility on
the line: By Thomas F. Gieryn.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
(1999). 398 pages. \$21.00, \pounds
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFloating,
flowing, flying: Pieter J. Zandbergen's
life las innovator, inspirator and
instigator in numerical fluid dynamics:
Edited by D. Dijkstra, B. J. Geurts, J.
G. M. Kuerten and H. K. Kuiken. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998).
253 pages. \$105.00} . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe importance of
being fuzzy and other insights from the
border between math and computers: By
Arturo Sangalli. Princeton University
Press, Princeton, NJ. (1998). 173 pages.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNonlinear
modeling: Advanced black-box techniques:
Edited by Johan A. K. Suykens and Joos
Vandewalle. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Boston, MA. (1998). 256 pages. \$125.00,
NLG 285.00, GBP 85.00} . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAdvances in
turbulence VII: Proceedings of the
Seventh European Turbulence Conference,
held in Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, France,
30 June--3 July 1998: Edited by Uriel
Frisch. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht. (1998). 613 pages. \$268.00,
NLG 495.00, GBP 169.00} . . . . . . . . 170--172
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNonsmooth
approach to optimization problems with
equilibrium constraints: Theory,
applications and numerical results: By
Jiri Outrata, Michal Kocvara and Jochem
Zowe. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht. (1998). 273 pages. \$129.00,
NLG 240.00, GBP 82.00} . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNumerical methods
for wave propagation: Selected
contributions from the workshop held in
Manchester, U.K., containing the Harten
Memorial Lecture: Edited by E. F. Toro
and J. F. Clarke. Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. (1998). 385
pages. \$170.00, NLG 315.00, GBP 107.00} 172--172
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleReuse methodology
manual for system-on-a-chip designs: By
Michael Keating and Pierre Bricaud.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.
(1998). 224 pages. \$94.00, NLG 215.00,
GBP 64.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--172
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBeginning partial
differential equations: By Peter V.
O'Neil. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
York. (1999). 500 pages. \$51.95} . . . 173--173
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFeynman and
computation: Exploring the limits of
computers: Edited by Anthony J. G. Hey.
Perseus Books, Reading, MA. (1999). 438
pages. \$50.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHandbook of
numerical analysis: Volume VI, numerical
methods for solids (Part 3), numerical
methods for fluids (Part 1): Edited by
G. G. Ciarlet and J. L. Lions. Elsevier,
Amsterdam. (1998). 688 pages. \$164.00} 173--173
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLearning Perl/Tk:
By Nancy Walsh. O'Reilly, Sebastopol,
CA. (1999). 358 pages. \$32.95} . . . . 173--173
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA mathematical
mystery tour: Discovering the truth and
beauty of the cosmos: By A. K. Dewdney.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleOpenSources:
Voices from the open source revolution:
Edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman and
Mark Stone. O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA.
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleData mining:
Methods for knowledge discovery: By
Krzysztof J. Cios, Witold Pedrycz and
Roman Swiniarski. Kluwer Academic
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDiscrete
mathematics using Latin squares: By
Charles F. Laywine and Gary L. Mullen.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
(1998). 305 pages. \$51.59} . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeneralized
riccati theory and robust control: a
Popov function approach: By Vlad
Ionescu, Cristian Oar\ua and Martin
Weiss. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
Chichester. (1999). 380 pages. \$65.00} 174--174
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInvitation to
discrete mathematics: By Jirf Matousek
and Jaroslav Nesetril. Clarendon Press,
Oxford. (1998). 410 pages. \$79.00
(cloth), \$35.00 (paper) . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMaxima and minima
with applications: Practical
optimization and duality: By Wilfred
Kaplan. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
York. (1999). 284 pages. \$48.50} . . . 174--174
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNon-standard
computation: Molecular computation,
cellular automata, evolutionary
algorithms, quantum computers: By Tino
Gramß, Stefan Bornholdt, Michael Groß,
Melanie Mitchell and Thomas Pellizzari.
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany. (1998).
221 pages. \$34.95} . . . . . . . . . . 174--174
Anonymous List of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . III--XI
Anonymous Author index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XII--XIV
A. O. Esogbue In memoriam: George Adomian (1922-1996) xiii--xiv
A. O. Esogbue Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv--xvi
R. Kalaba and
H. Natsuyama and
S. Ueno and
R. Xu The Bellman--Gauss principle for
constrained motion . . . . . . . . . . . 1--7
R. Vasudevan and
L. S. Varadharajan Dynamic programming and quantum
mechanical motion . . . . . . . . . . . 9--15
A. Lew and
R. Halverson, Jr. Dynamic programming on a functional
memory computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--22
B. Mikolajczak and
J. T. Rumbut, Jr. Distributed dynamic programming using
concurrent object-orientedness with
actors visualized by high-level Petri
nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
L. A. Zadeh Fuzzy logic and the calculi of fuzzy
rules, fuzzy graphs, and fuzzy
probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--35
A. O. Esogbue Fuzzy dynamic programming, fuzzy
adaptive neuro control, and the general
medical diagnosis problem . . . . . . . 37--45
A. O. Esogbue The computational complexity of some
fuzzy dynamic programs . . . . . . . . . 47--51
P.-T. Chang and
E. S. Lee Fuzzy decision networks and
deconvolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--63
Baoding Liu and
T. Odanaka Dynamic fuzzy criterion model for
reservoir operations and a case study 65--75
M. Kurano and
M. Yasuda and
J. Nakagami and
Y. Yoshida The time average reward for some dynamic
fuzzy systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--86
Y. Yoshida Superharmonic fuzzy sets on recurrent
sets in dynamic fuzzy systems . . . . . 87--93
A. O. Esogbue and
Baoding Liu Cluster validity for fuzzy criterion
clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--100
S. Ueno and
A. P. Wang and
M. Toho Invariant imbedding and Cauchy system of
scattering function in searchlight
problem in rugged terrain . . . . . . . 101--106
A. P. Wang and
S. Ueno Invariant imbedding and inverse problems
with applications to radiative transfer 107--112
M. Matsumoto The accuracy of numerical inversion of
the Laplace transform applied to the
time-dependent reflection function from
a semi-infinite atmosphere . . . . . . . 113--122
Y. Kawata and
S. Ueno Analytical and numerical simulation of
satellite image from space . . . . . . . 123--131
S. Mukai and
I. Sano Algorithms for aerosol retrieval based
on scattering calculations . . . . . . . 133--139
C. S. Lee and
G. Leitmann A bounded harvest strategy for an
ecological system in the presence of
uncertain disturbances . . . . . . . . . 141--157
T. Amemiya A stabilizing control for a class of
uncertain linear delayed systems via
state feedback --- Development of the
results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
R. Hirabayashi and
Y. T. Ikebe and
K. Iwamura and
T. Nakayama Drawing a Tree on Parallel Lines . . . . 171--176
L. P. M. Benders Specification and performance analysis
of embedded systems with coloured Petri
nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--190
W. M. Zuberek and
W. Kubiak Timed Petri nets in modeling and
analysis of simple schedules for
manufacturing cells . . . . . . . . . . 191--206
J.-I. Nakagami A two-person noncooperative game for
assets selling problem: Independent case 207--212
T. Fukao and
J. Wu and
K. Ikeda Critical phenomena in a collective
computation algorithm for combinatorial
optimization problems . . . . . . . . . 213--223
T. Shohdohji and
Y. Hoshino and
N. Kutsuwada Optimization of quantization table based
on visual characteristics in DCT image
coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--232
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Jingan Cui and
Lansun Chen The effects of habitat fragmentation and
ecological invasion on population sizes 1--11
R. U. Verma Generalized $G$--$H$-convexity and
minimax theorems in $G$--$H$-spaces . . 13--18
M. A. Noor A modified extragradient method for
general monotone variational
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24
Zhenguo Zhang and
Jinlian Zhang Oscillation criteria for second-order
functional difference equations with
``summation small'' coefficient . . . . 25--31
P. R. Parthasarathy and
R. B. Lenin An inverse problem in birth and death
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--40
A. I. Alonso and
Jialin Hong and
R. Obaya Exponential dichotomy and trichotomy for
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 41--49
L. Tadj and
L. Benkherouf and
L. Aggoun A hysteretic queueing system with random
server capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--61
J. Popenda and
R. P. Agarwal Discrete Gronwall inequalities in many
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Xie Ping Ding Generalized implicit quasivariational
inclusions with fuzzy set-valued
mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
Jihua Liang and
K. Keimel Compact continuous $L$-domains . . . . . 81--89
Rong-Jun Li Fuzzy method in group decision making 91--101
P. P. Choudhury Dynamic design of a reliable computer
network on using information theory . . 103--118
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Lihong Zhi and
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K. Pranesh An inequality for logarithms and
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polynomials from the global stability
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delay partial difference equations . . . 37--43
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M. A. Al-Zanaidi An extended trapezoidal formula for the
diffusion equation . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
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solution of ODEs, II . . . . . . . . . . 61--72
W. Rachowicz Analysis of a preconditioned GMRES
solver for a nonsymmetric SUPG
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Navier--Stokes equations . . . . . . . . 73--96
F. X. Giraldo and
B. Neta Stability analysis for Eulerian and
semi-Lagrangian finite-element
formulation of the advection-diffusion
equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--112
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K. Ravi Bounded and monotone properties of
solutions of second-order quasilinear
forced difference equations . . . . . . 113--121
C.-B. Cheng and
E. S. Lee Applying fuzzy adaptive network to fuzzy
regression analysis . . . . . . . . . . 123--140
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solution of sparse linear systems'' . . 141--141
L. Chen Optimal computation of shortest paths on
doubly convex bipartite graphs . . . . . 1--12
B. Almási and
J. Sztrik Optimization problems on the performance
of a nonreliable terminal system . . . . 13--21
Soon-Yi Wu and
S.-C. Fang Solving convex programs with infinitely
many linear constraints by a relaxed
cutting plane method . . . . . . . . . . 23--33
J. P. Boyd A numerical comparison of seven grids
for polynomial interpolation on the
interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--50
A. P. Voudouri and
J. I. Moshakis and
P. T. Artikis A stochastic discounting model arising
in competing risks management . . . . . 51--59
Xin-An Zhang and
Lansun Chen The periodic solution of a class of
epidemic models . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--71
L. Galué and
S. Kalla and
V. K. Tuan Some Sonine--Gegenbauer type integrals 73--83
C. S. Chien and
Y. J. Kuo and
Z. Mei Bifurcations of the von Kármán equations
with Robin boundary conditions . . . . . 85--112
C. J. Zhang and
S. Z. Zhou Stability analysis of LMMs for systems
of neutral multidelay-differential
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--117
V. V. Sirotkin The solution of singularly perturbed
parabolic problems by parallel
algorithms combining Crank--Nicolson
scheme and overlapping Schwarz methods 119--142
H. Román-Flores and
M. Rojas-Medar Level-continuity of functions and
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--149
L. Debnath and
S. Das Interaction of elastic waves by an
interfacial Griffith crack . . . . . . . 151--158
R. P. Agarwal and
M. Bohner and
P. J. Y. Wong Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of
discrete conjugate boundary value
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--183
R. P. Agarwal and
S. R. Grace The oscillation of higher-order
differential equations with deviating
arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--199
S. B. Joshi and
H. M. Srivastava A certain family of meromorphically
multivalent functions . . . . . . . . . 201--211
Xinzhi Liu and
Dajun Guo Method of upper and lower solutions for
second-order impulsive
integro-differential equations in a
Banach space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
K. K. Nambiar Axiomatic derivation of the continuum
hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
X. Ye A least-squares finite-element method
for the Stokes equations with improved
mass balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--237
C.-B. Cheng and
E. S. Lee Nonparametric fuzzy regression- $k$-NN
and kernel smoothing techniques . . . . 239--251
Anonymous Errata to ``The shift-inverted
$J$-Lanczos algorithm for the numerical
solutions of large sparse algebraic
Riccati equations'' . . . . . . . . . . 253--255
Anonymous Erratum to ``A practical guide to direct
optimization for planar
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D. L. Hicks and
L. M. Liebrock SPH hydrocodes can be stabilized with
shape-shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--16
Nguyen Huu Cong and
K. Strehmel and
R. Weiner A general class of explicit pseudo
two-step RKN methods on parallel
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--30
I. Fazekas and
S. Baran and
J. Lauridsen Asymptotic properties of an estimator in
errors-in-variables models in the
presence of validation data . . . . . . 31--39
I. Boglaev An implicit-explicit domain
decomposition algorithm for a singularly
perturbed parabolic problem . . . . . . 41--53
Yuan-Ming Wang Parallel multisplitting explicit AOR
methods for numerical solutions of
semilinear elliptic boundary value
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--66
M. C. A. Kropinski Integral equation methods for particle
simulations in creeping flows . . . . . 67--87
E. Ruffino and
P. P. Delsanto Problems of accuracy and reliability in
$2$-D LISA simulations . . . . . . . . . 89--97
S. Sundar and
B. K. Bhagavan and
A. Datta Computing eigenvalues: Lanczos algorithm
with a new recursive partitioning method 99--107
D. O'Regan Multivalued differential equations in
Banach spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--116
Shaozhu Chen Eventual disconjugacy of self-adjoint
difference equations . . . . . . . . . . 117--128
W. Layton Weak imposition of ``no-slip''
conditions in finite element methods . . 129--142
R. P. Agarwal and
S. R. Grace Oscillation of certain functional
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 143--153
Daoyi Xu and
Shuyong Li and
Zhiling Pu and
Qingyi Guo Domain of attraction of nonlinear
discrete systems with delays . . . . . . 155--162
B. G. Zhang and
B. M. Liu Necessary and sufficient conditions for
oscillations of partial difference
equations with continuous variables . . 163--167
S. R. Kulkarni and
U. H. Naik and
H. M. Srivastava An application of fractional calculus to
a new class of multivalent functions
with negative coefficients . . . . . . . 169--182
S. Kim Numerical solutions of Cauchy singular
integral equations using generalized
inverses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--195
Jichun Li and
I. M. Navon A global uniformly convergent finite
element method for a quasi-linear
singularly perturbed elliptic problem 197--206
P. Chattopadhyay and
P. P. Choudhury and
K. Dihidar Characterisation of a particular hybrid
transformation of two-dimensional
cellular automata . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
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H. Rasmussen A numerical study of unstable Hele--Shaw
flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--230
Xie Ping Ding Algorithm of solutions for mixed
implicit quasi-variational inequalities
with fuzzy mappings . . . . . . . . . . 231--241
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Y. Yavin and
M. Sniedovich Control strategies for a stochastic
flexible manufacturing and assembly
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equilibrium problems in generalized
convex spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--197
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delay systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--206
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G. Stoyan Towards discrete velte decompositions
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Barna Szabó and
Aurél Galántai and
György Szeidl Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii--xiii
P. Rózsa Kronecker polynomials and their
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A. Galántai Parallel ABS projection methods for
linear and nonlinear systems with block
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M. Meywerk A numerical method to classify zeros of
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H. van der Veen and
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M. Rontó and
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I. Arany Solving systems of elastic bar
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M. Honner Heat waves simulation . . . . . . . . . 233--243
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monkey test for pseudorandom number
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