We survey general techniques and open problems in numerical linear algebra on parallel architectures. We first discuss basic principles of parallel processing, describing the costs of basic operations on parallel machines, including general principles for constructing efficient algorithms. We

The characteristics of the waves guided along a plane [I] P. S. Epstein, “On the possibility of electromagnetic surface waves, ” Proc. Nat’l dcad. Sciences, vol. 40, pp. 1158-1165, Deinterface which separates a semi-infinite region of free cember 1954. space from that of a magnetoionic medium are investi- [2] T. Tamir and A. A. Oliner, “The spectrum of electromagnetic waves guided by a plasma layer, ” Proc. IEEE, vol. 51, pp. 317gated for the case in which the static magnetic field is 332, February 1963. oriented perpendicular to the plane interface. It is [3] &I. A. Gintsburg, “Surface waves on the boundary of a plasma in a magnetic field, ” Rasprost. Radwvoln i Ionosf., Trudy found that surface waves exist only when w,<wp and NIZMIRAN L’SSR, no. 17(27), pp. 208-215, 1960. that also only for angular frequencies which lie bet\\-een [4] S. R. Seshadri and A. Hessel, “Radiation from a source near a plane interface between an isotropic and a gyrotropic dielectric,” we and 1/42 times the upper hybrid resonant frequency. Canad. J. Phys., vol. 42, pp. 2153-2172, November 1964. The surface waves propagate with a phase velocity [5] G. H. Owpang and S. R. Seshadri, “Guided waves propagating along the magnetostatic field at a plane boundary of a semiwhich is always less than the velocity of electromagnetic infinite magnetoionic medium, ” IEEE Trans. on Miomave waves in free space. The attenuation rates normal to the Tbory and Techniques, vol. MTT-14, pp. 136144, March 1966. [6] S. R. Seshadri and T. T. \Vu, “Radiation condition for a maginterface of the surface wave fields in both the media are netoionic medium. ” to be Dublished. examined. Kumerical results of the surface wave characteristics are given for one typical case.

We identify a class of fluents that we call "regular", and show how reasoning about regular fluents can be automated using the Causal Calculator. A regular fluent is a fluent with numerical values such that the effect of several concurrently executed actions on it can be computed

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accuracy of the approximations to the expected value of functions of interest under the posterior. In this paper methods from spectral analysis are used to evaluate numerical accuracy formally and construct diagnostics for convergence. These methods are illustrated in the normal linear model

The evaluation of numerous school reforms requires an understanding of the value of better schools. Given the difficulty of calculating the relationship between school quality and student outcomes, I turn to another method and use house prices to infer the value parents place on school quality. I

processing, numerical linear algebra, computer vision, numerical analysis, data mining, neuroscience, graph analysis, etc. Two particular tensor decompositions can be considered to be higher-order extensions of the matrix singular value decompo- sition: CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposes a tensor as a sum

discussed is the calculation of the q-value, the pFDR analogue of the p-value, which eliminates the need to set the error rate beforehand as is traditionally done. Some simple numerical examples are presented that show that this new approach can yield an increase of over eight times in power compared

By a linguistic variable we mean a variable whose values are words or sentences in a natural or artificial language. I:or example, Age is a linguistic variable if its values are linguistic rather than numerical, i.e., young, not young, very young, quite young, old, not very oldand not very young

We present a fast marching level set method for monotonically advancing fronts, which leads to an extremely fast scheme for solving the Eikonal equation. Level set methods are numerical techniques for computing the position of propagating fronts. They rely on an initial value partial differential