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5     volume="37",
6     year="1997"}
7
8@techreport{kar94-mf,
9     author="G. Karypis and V. Kumar",
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12     institution="Dept. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota",
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16@techreport{SuperLU95,
17     author="J. W. Demmel and S. C. Eisenstat and J. R. Gilbert
18             and X. S. Li and J. W. H. Liu",
19     title="A supernodal approach to sparse partial pivoting",
20     institution="Xerox Palo Alto Research Center",
21     number="CSL--94--14",
22     year="1995",
23     note="Accepted for publication in {\it SIAM J. Matrix. Anal.}"}
24
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26     author="E. Rothberg and S. C. Eisenstat",
27     title="Node selection strategies
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29     journal="SIAM J. Matrix Anal.",
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31     year="1998",
32     pages="682-695"}
33
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35     author="A. Pothen and C. Sun",
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40     year="1993",
41     pages="1253-1257"}
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52@misc{roger97-amalg,
53   AUTHOR="R. Grimes",
54   note="personal communication"}
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56@misc{ash97-utah,
57   AUTHOR="C. Ashcraft and S. C. Eisenstat and J. W. H. Liu",
58   title="Practical extensions of the multisection ordering for
59          sparse matrices",
60   howpublished="Minisymposium presentation at
61             the Sixth SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra,
62             Snowbird, Utah",
63   year="October 29, 1997"}
64
65@misc{ash94-utah,
66   AUTHOR="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
67   title="Generalized nested dissection: some recent progress",
68   howpublished="Minisymposium presentation at
69             the Fifth SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra,
70             Snowbird, Utah",
71   year="June 18, 1994"}
72
73@misc{rot96-balance,
74   AUTHOR="E. Rothberg",
75   title="Exploring the tradeoff between imbalance and separator
76          size in nested dissection ordering",
77   howpublished="unpublished",
78   year="1996"}
79
80@misc{ro95-hybrid,
81   AUTHOR="E. Rothberg",
82   title="Robust ordering of sparse matrices: a minimum degree,
83          nested dissection hybrid",
84   howpublished="unpublished",
85   year="1995"}
86
87@misc{rothberg95,
88   AUTHOR="E. Rothberg",
89   howpublished="private communication",
90   year="1995"}
91
92@conference{rot96-mindefIdaho,
93   author="E. Rothberg",
94   title="Ordering sparse matrices
95          using approximate minimum local fill",
96   booktitle="Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices",
97   year="1996",
98   note="Conference presentation"}
99
100@techreport{hr96-msndtalk,
101     author="B. Hendrickson and E. Rothberg",
102     title="Improving the runtime and quality of nested dissection
103           ordering",
104     booktitle="Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices",
105     year="1996",
106     note="Conference presentation"}
107
108@conference{ng96-mindefIdaho,
109   author="E. Ng and P. Raghavan",
110   title="Minimum deficiency ordering",
111   booktitle="Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices",
112   year="1996",
113   note="Conference presentation"}
114
115@article{gib76-profile,
116     AUTHOR = {N. E. Gibbs and W. G. Poole Jr and P. K. Stockmeyer},
117     JOURNAL = {SIAM. J. Numer. Anal.},
118     KEY = {LLt band profile},
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126     author="P. Raghavan",
127     title="Parallel ordering using edge contraction",
128     number="CS-95-293",
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130                 Tennessee",
131     address="Knoxville, Tennessee",
132     year="1995"}
133
134@techreport{ame94-amdTR,
135     author="P. Amestoy and T. Davis and I. Duff",
136     title="An approximate minimum degree ordering algorithm",
137     number = "TR-94-039",
138     institution="University of Florida",
139     year="1994"}
140
141@techreport{hr96-msnd,
142     author="B. Hendrickson and E. Rothberg",
143     title="Improving the runtime and quality of nested dissection
144           ordering",
145     institution="Sandia National Laboratories",
146     year="1996"}
147
148@article{ash89-relaxed,
149     author="C. Ashcraft and R. Grimes",
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151            multifrontal method",
152     journal="ACM Trans. Math. Software",
153     volume="15",
154     year="1989",
155     pages="291-309"}
156
157@techreport{ash95-AGL,
158     author="C. Ashcraft and R. G. Grimes and J. G. Lewis",
159     title="Accurate symmetric indefinite linear equation solvers",
160     number="ISSTECH-95-029",
161     institution="Boeing Computer Services",
162     year="1995",
163     note="Accepted for publication in {\it SIAM J. Matrix. Anal.}"}
164
165@article{ash98-multisection,
166     author="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
167     title="Robust ordering of sparse matrices using multisection",
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169     pages="816-832",
170     year="1998",
171     journal="SIAM J. Matrix. Anal."}
172
173@techreport{ash95-DDSEP,
174     author="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
175     title="Using domain decompositions to find graph bisectors",
176     number="ISSTECH-95-024",
177     institution="Boeing Computer Services",
178     year="1995",
179     note="Accepted for publication in {\it BIT}"}
180
181@techreport{ash95-robust,
182     author="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
183     title="Robust ordering of sparse matrices using multisection",
184     number="ISSTECH-96-002",
185     institution="Boeing Computer Services",
186     year="1996"}
187
188@article{ash98-maxflow,
189     author="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
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193     pages="325-354",
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197@techreport{ash96-maxflow,
198     author="C. Ashcraft and J. W. H. Liu",
199     title="Applications of the {D}ulmage-{M}endelsohn decomposition
200            and network flow to graph bisection improvement",
201     number="ISSTECH-96-017",
202     institution="Boeing Computer Services",
203     year="1996",
204     note="Accepted for publication in {\it SIAM J. Matrix. Anal.}"}
205
206@techreport{ash93-compressed-graphs-TR,
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211     year="1993"}
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243     journal={SIAM J. Sci. Comput.},
244     volume={20},
245     year="1998"}
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248  author      = {G. Karypis and V. Kumar},
249  title       = {METIS~4.0: Unstructured graph partitioning and
250                 sparse matrix ordering system},
251  institution = {Department of Computer Science,
252                 University of Minnesota},
253  year        = {1998},
254  number      = {},
255  note        = {Available on the WWW at URL
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257}
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624@techreport{kar95-multilevel,
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