Vol.46, No.2 (1998) Contents

Special Topic: Computation and Optimization
On the Special Issue "Computation and Optimization"
..........Shinji MIZUNO (46, 281-281)
A Scaling-invariant Self-dual Subfamily of the Monteiro-Tsuchiya Family of Search Directions for the Primal-dual Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming
..........Takashi TSUCHIYA (46, 283-296)
Using the Conjugate Gradient Method in Interior-points Methods for Semidefinite Programs
..........Kazuhide NAKATA, Katsuki FUJISAWA and Masakazu KOJIMA (46, 297-316)
Information Geometric Analysis of Semidefinite Programming Problems
..........Atsumi OHARA (46, 317-334)
Homotopy Methods and Interior-point Methods
..........Shinji MIZUNO (46, 335-343)
Optimality and Duality of Semi-infinite Programming
..........Satoshi ITO (46, 345-358)
Problems of Optimal Configuration of Points on the Sphere
..........Masaharu TANEMURA (46, 359-381)
Teleological Model
..........Makio ISHIGURO (46, 383-399)
Methds for Searching the Maximum Likelihood Tree
..........Ying CAO and Masami HASEGAWA (46, 401-409)
Exact Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems Using PUBB - A Generalized Utility for Parallel Branch-and-bound Algorithms -
..........Yuji SHINANO and Tetsuya FUJIE (46, 411-431)
Special-purpose Computers for Scientific Simulations
..........Makoto TAIJI (46, 433-444)

Performance Evaluation on Parallel Computer Systems in Executing Statistical Data Analysis
..........Fumihiko SHIMODAIRA, Tomonori SHIRAKAWA and Yoshiyasu TAMURA (46, 445-460)
Uniform Approximations of Probability Distributions Based on K-L Information Defined on Approximate Main Domains - With Applications to Quantitative Evaluations of Fluctuations in Multivariate General Exponential Families -
..........Tomoya YAMADA and Tadashi MATSUNAWA (46, 461-476)
Modelling of Complicated Visco-elastic Material and Its Inverse Problem : Riemann-Liouville Integral Representation
..........Hiroaki HARA, Sang Seok LEE, Tunehiro OBATA and Yoshiyasu TAMURA (46, 477-491)

Abstracts of Research Works in 1997
.......... (46, 493-522)