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Beschreibung: An edge of a perfect graph $G$ is critical if $G-e$ is imperfect. We would like to decide whether $G - e$ is still {\sl almost perfect} or already {\sl very imperfect}. Via relaxations of the stable set polytope of a graph, we define two superclasses of perfect graphs: rank-perfect and weakly rank-perfect graphs. Membership in those two classes indicates how far an imperfect graph is away from being perfect. We study the cases, when a critical edge is removed from the line graph of a bipartite graph or from the complement of such a graph.

Beschreibung: Collection of abstracts of the first SIAM-EMS conference Applied Mathematics in our Changing World'' in Berlin, September 2-6, 2001.

Beschreibung: {\sc Zimpl} is a little language to translate the mathematical model of a problem into a linear or (mixed-)integer mathematical program expressed in {\tt lp} or {\tt mps} file format which can be read by a LP or MIP solver.

Beschreibung: Im ersten Teil des folgenden Aufsatzes werden allgemeine Überlegungen zur Entwicklung von Bibliotheken hin zu Informationsvermittlungsstellen für sowohl elektronische wie auch gedruckte Medien angestellt. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen der Evaluation digitaler Bibliotheken und Informationsportale in Deutschland wird ein erster Kriterienkatalog für ein Verbund-Informationsportal für den Kooperativen Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg entwickelt. Im Anhang befindet sich der Statusbericht über Informationsportale und digitale Bibliotheken in Deutschland. Dazu wurden sieben digitale Bibliotheken auf Verbundebene und 21 Bibliotheken nach Bundesländern evaluiert.

Beschreibung: Given a set of service requests (events), a set of guided servers (units), and a set of unguided service contractors (conts), the vehicle dispatching problem {\sl vdp} is the task to find an assignment of events to units and conts as well as tours for all units starting at their current positions and ending at their home positions (dispatch) such that the total cost of the dispatch is minimized. The cost of a dispatch is the sum of unit costs, cont costs, and event costs. Unit costs consist of driving costs, service costs and overtime costs; cont costs consist of a fixed cost per service; event costs consist of late costs linear in the late time, which occur whenever the service of the event starts later than its deadline. The program \textsf{ZIBDIP} based on dynamic column generation and set partitioning yields solutions on heavy-load real-world instances (215 events, 95 units) in less than a minute that are no worse than 1\% from optimum on state-of-the-art personal computers.

Beschreibung: Scenario tree models of stochastic programs arise naturally under standard nonanticipativity assumptions. We demonstrate how tree-sparse programs cover the general case, with \emph{arbitrary} information constraints. Detailed examples and intuitive interpretations illuminate the basic thoughts behind the abstract but elementary construction.

Beschreibung: In this paper we present an algorithm that accelerates 3D texture-based volume rendering of large and sparse data sets. A hierarchical data structure (known as AMR tree) consisting of nested uniform grids is employed in order to efficiently encode regions of interest. The hierarchies resulting from this kind of space partitioning yield a good balance between the amount of volume to render and the number of texture bricks -- a prerequisite for fast rendering. Comparing our approach to an octree based algorithm we show that our algorithm increases rendering performance significantly for sparse data. A further advantage is that less parameter tuning is necessary.

Beschreibung: Mathematical optimization techniques are on their way to becoming a standard tool in chemical process engineering. While such approaches are usually based on deterministic models, uncertainties such as external disturbances play a significant role in many real-life applications. The present article gives an introduction to practical issues of process operation and to basic mathematical concepts required for the explicit treatment of uncertainties by stochastic optimization.

Beschreibung: Uncoupling-coupling Monte Carlo (UCMC) combines uncoupling techniques for finite Markov chains with Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology. UCMC aims at avoiding the typical metastable or trapping behavior of Monte Carlo techniques. From the viewpoint of Monte Carlo, a slowly converging long-time Markov chain is replaced by a limited number of rapidly mixing short-time ones. Therefore, the state space of the chain has to be hierarchically decomposed into its metastable conformations. This is done by means of combining the technique of conformation analysis as recently introduced by the authors, and appropriate annealing strategies. We present a detailed examination of the uncoupling-coupling procedure which uncovers its theoretical background, and illustrates the hierarchical algorithmic approach. Furthermore, application of the UCMC algorithm to the $n$-pentane molecule allows us to discuss the effect of its crucial steps in a typical molecular scenario.

Beschreibung: Standard model predictive control for real-time operation of industrial production processes may be inefficient in the presence of substantial uncertainties. To avoid overly conservative disturbance corrections while ensuring safe operation, random influences should be taken into account explicitly. We propose a multistage stochastic programming approach within the model predictive control framework and apply it to a distillation process with a feed tank buffering external sources. A preliminary comparison to a probabilistic constraints approach is given and first computational results for the distillation process are presented.

Beschreibung: Dynamic stochastic programs are prototypical for optimization problems with an inherent tree structure inducing characteristic sparsity patterns in the KKT systems of interior methods. We propose an integrated modeling and solution approach for such tree-sparse programs. Three closely related natural formulations are theoretically analyzed from a control-theoretic viewpoint and compared to each other. Associated KKT solution algorithms with linear complexity are developed and comparisons to other interior approaches and related problem formulations are discussed.

Beschreibung: We introduce a new problem that was motivated by a (more complicated) problem arising in a robotized assembly enviroment. The bin coloring problem is to pack unit size colored items into bins, such that the maximum number of different colors per bin is minimized. Each bin has size~$B\in\mathbb{N}$. The packing process is subject to the constraint that at any moment in time at most $q\in\mathbb{N}$ bins may be partially filled. Moreover, bins may only be closed if they are filled completely. An online algorithm must pack each item must be packed without knowledge of any future items. We investigate the existence of competitive online algorithms for the online uniform binpacking problem. We show upper bounds for the bin coloring problem. We prove an upper bound of $3q$ - 1 and a lower bound of $2q$ for the competitive ratio of a natural greedy-type algorithm, and show that surprisingly a trivial algorithm which uses only one open bin has a strictly better competitive ratio of $2q$ - 1. Morever, we show that any deterministic algorithm has a competitive ratio $\Omega (q)$ and that randomization does not improve this lower bound even when the adversary is oblivious.

Beschreibung: In circuit switching networks call streams are characterized by their mean and peakedness (two-moment method). The $GI/M/C/0$ system is used to model a single link, where the $GI$-stream is determined by fitting moments appropriately. For the moments of the overflow traffic of a $GI/M/C/0$ system there are efficient numerical algorithms available. However, for the moments of the freed carried traffic, defined as the moments of a virtual link of infinite capacity to which the process of calls accepted by the link (carried arrival process) is virtually directed and where the virtual calls get fresh exponential i.i.d.\ holding times, only complex numerical algorithms are available. This is the reason why the concept of the freed carried traffic is not used rigorously. The main result of this paper is an efficient algorithm for computing the moments of the freed carried traffic, in particular an explicit formula for its peakedness. This result offers a unified handling of both overflow and carried traffics in networks. Furthermore, some refined characteristics for the overflow and freed carried streams are derived.

Beschreibung: In this work we concentrate on developing methods which determine good lower bounds for set partitioning problems (SPP) in an appropriate amount of time. We found out that it makes sense to use the Lagrangian relaxation method for this task. The Lagrangian relaxed problem of SPP has a simple structure, which leads to algorithms and heuristics, whose total complexity per iteration depends linearly on the number of non-zeros of the problem matrix of SPP. In contrast, other methods like simplex methods or interior point methods have a complexity of higher order. Because the problem matrices of our tested instances are sparse, the linear dependence becomes an advantage for the algorithms and heuristics mentioned above. As a reference for the state-of-the-art we have applied the dual simplex method and the barrier function method, implemented in CPLEX. The methods, which we have developed and compared with those of CPLEX, are SBM, CAM, CCBM, and CBM. SBM is a subgradient bundle method derived from the basic subgradient method, which is a global convergent method for determining the maximum of concave functions. CAM is a coordinate ascent method, where the convex coordinate bundle method CCBM and the coordinate bundle method CBM are derivatives from CAM. We observed that the basic subgradient and the coordinate ascent method are improved if bundling techniques can be used. But the motivation for bundling differs for both approaches. In the former case bundling helps to approximate a minimum norm subgradient, which provides a steepest ascent direction, in order to speed up the performance. In the latter case bundling enables proceeding along directions, which are not restricted on the coordinate directions. By this the performance is accelerated. Among all used techniques stabilization is worth mentioning. Stabilization improves the performance especially at the beginning by avoiding too big steps during the proceeding. This leads to a more stabilized progression. Stabilization was successfully applied to SBM, CAM, CCBM, and CBM. As an overall result we conclude the following: \begin{enumerate} \item CPLEX computes the optimal objective values, whereas SBM and CBM has on average a gap of under $1.5\%$. \item In comparison to CPLEX baropt, SBM, CAM, and CBM the algorithm CCBM has a slow convergence because of the convex combination of ascent coordinate directions. An alternative is to relax the convex combination to a simple sum of the corresponding directions. This idea is realized in CBM. \item If we focus on the running time rather than on optimality then CBM is on average the fastest algorithm. \end{enumerate} Note that methods like SBM or CBM are applied on static SPP instances in order to determine a good lower bound. For solving SPP we need dynamical methods. Due to the complex topic of dynamical methods we will not discuss them, but a certain technique is worth mentioning. It is called column generation. We have indicated that this technique needs good Lagrangian multipliers of the corresponding SPP instances in order to generate further columns (in our case duties), which are added to the current SPP instance. Those multipliers are by-products of methods like our six considered methods. Due to the large number of such generation steps the running time depends on the computation time of these methods. Therefore, CBM fits more to this technique than CPLEX baropt or SBM. To sum it up it can be said that applications such as a duty scheduling can be described as set partitioning problems, whose lower bound can be solved by simplex, interior points, subgradient, or coordinate ascent methods. It turns out that the interior points method CPLEX baropt and the heuristic CBM have good performances. Furthermore, good Lagrangian multipliers, which are by-products of these methods, can be used by techniques like column generation. For this particular technique it also turns out that among our tested algorithms CBM is the most efficient one. In general we can state that real-world applications, which have to solve a large number of Lagrangian relaxed SPP instances can improve their performance by using CBM.

Beschreibung: The success of large-scale multi-national projects like the forthcoming analysis of the LHC particle collision data at CERN relies to a great extent on the ability to efficiently utilize computing a management software (Datagrid, Globus, etc.), while the effective integration of computing nodes has been largely neglected up to now. This is the focus of our work. We present a framework for a high-performance cluster that can be used as a reliable computing node in the Grid. We outline the cluster architecture, the management of distributed data and the seamless intergration of the cluster into the Grid environment.

Beschreibung: Der Aufsatz ist die ausgearbeitete Fassung eines Vortrages, gehalten am 05.04.2001 auf dem 91. Deutschen Bibliothekartag in Bielefeld. Der Kooperative Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) ist im Rahmen eines wissenschaftlichen Projektes in den Jahren 1997 bis 2000 am Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) aufgebaut worden. Nachdem das Projekt erfolgreich abgeschlossen ist, wird der KOBV 2001 institutionalisiert. In dem Vortrag hat die Verfasserin einen Überblick über das bisher Erreichte, den derzeitigen Stand und die Perspektiven des neuen Verbundes gegeben. Der KOBV stellt eine neue Art von Bibliotheksverbund dar. Sein technisches Konzept und sein organisatorischer Aufbau basieren auf der {\sl Internetphilosophie}. Den informationstechnischen Kern bildet eine Suchmaschine, die die heterogenen lokalen Bibliothekssysteme miteinander verbindet. Die KOBV-Organisation ist dezentral. Sie wird getragen von der Kooperation der Bibliotheken in Berlin und Brandenburg. Eine kleine Verbundzentrale koordiniert dieses Geflecht vernetzter lokaler Einheiten, vertritt den KOBV nach außen und arbeitet - in Form von Projekten - an seiner Weiterentwicklung. Der Entwicklungsaspekt und die Nutzerorientierung sind zwei wesentliche Komponenten in der Verbundarbeit. Berlin und Brandenburg haben auf engem Raum zahlreiche Bibliotheken mit großen, reichhaltigen Medienbeständen. Mittel- bis langfristig sollen Bibliotheken aller Sparten und Größen in den KOBV integriert werden, seien es wissenschaftliche Universalbibliotheken, universitäre Bibliothekssysteme, Spezialbibliotheken, Behörden- und Parlamentsbibliotheken oder öffentliche Bibliotheken. Auch regionale Bibliotheksverbünde können als Subverbünde am KOBV teilnehmen. Mit der KOBV-Suchmaschine ist eine offene Plattform geschaffen worden, auf der weitere Entwicklungen aufsetzen können. Der Aufbau einer virtuellen Regionalbibliothek mit Bestell- und Lieferkomponenten ist eines der Ziele. Darüber hinaus ist es die Vision, in der Region ein virtuelles {\sl Wissensportal} aufzubauen, das dem Nutzer unter einer Adresse den umfassenden Zugang und die umfassende Bereitstellung von Informationen aller Art bietet.

Beschreibung: A new approach to the numerical solution of optimal control problems including control and state constraints is presented. Like hybrid methods, the approach aims at combining the advantages of direct and indirect methods. Unlike hybrid methods, however, our method is directly based on interior-point concepts in function space --- realized via an adaptive multilevel scheme applied to the complementarity formulation and numerical continuation along the central path. Existence of the central path and its continuation towards the solution point is analyzed in some theoretical detail. An adaptive stepsize control with respect to the duality gap parameter is worked out in the framework of affine invariant inexact Newton methods. Finally, the performance of a first version of our new type of algorithm is documented by the successful treatment of the well-known intricate windshear problem.

Beschreibung: Das \emph{Committee on Electronic Information and Communication} (CEIC) der \emph{International Mathematical Union} (IMU) hat die Aufgabe, sich über die langfristige Informationsversorgung in der Mathematik Gedanken zu machen und Lösungsvorschläge hierfür zu erarbeiten. Das Kernthema ist natürlich "`Elektronisches Publizieren"'. Dazu gehören auch Copyright-Regelungen. % Sie sind -- % neben einer Andeutung der weiteren CEIC-Pläne -- der Fokus dieses % kurzen Artikels. Er schließt mit einem von der IMU verabschiedeten % Aufruf zu vernünftigem Verhalten bei Copyright-Vereinbarungen. Eine % nachhaltige Befolgung dieses Aufrufs -- verbunden mit weiteren % Aktivitäten -- könnte die (derzeit kaum noch bezahlbare und % dadurch gefährdete) Literaturversorgung nachhaltig zum Positiven % verändern. Mit diesem Artikel beginnt eine kleine Serie von Aufsätzen, in denen ich (in meiner Funktion als eines von elf CEIC-Mitgliedern) die Empfehlungen des CEIC erläutern werde. % Das heutige Thema sind die % CEIC-Vorschläge zum Copyright

Beschreibung: By computed tomography data (CT), the individual geometry of the mandible is quite well reproduced, also the separation between cortical and trabecular bone. Using anatomical knowledge about the architecture and the functional potential of the masticatory muscles, realistic situations were approximated. The solution of the underlying partial differential equations describing linear elastic material behaviour is provided by an adaptive finite element method. Estimations of the discretization error, local grid refinement, and multilevel techniques guarantee the reliability and efficiency of the method.

Beschreibung: Optimization is the task of finding an optimum solution to a given problem. When the decision variables are discrete we speak of a combinatorial optimization problem. Such a problem is online when decisions have to be made before all data of the problem are known. And we speak of a real-time online problem when online decisions have to be computed within very tight time bounds. This paper surveys the are of combinatorial online and real-time optimization, it discusses, in particular, the concepts with which online and real-time algorithms can be analyzed.

Beschreibung: This paper describes a new simulation tool for the prediction of aerosol formation and behavior in gas--liquid contact devices such as absorbers, scrubbers, quench coolers, and condensers as well as multistage gas cleaning processes, respectively. Aerosol formation can impact severely the separation efficiency of gas cleaning processes. Aerosol or fog formation can arise by spontaneous condensation or desublimation in supersaturated gas phases. The rigorous description of the mass and energy transfer between the gas phase, the liquid phase, and the growing aerosol droplets leads to a system of partial differential and algebraic equations. For the solution of these systems we have developed the plant simulation tool AerCoDe. This program bases upon the linearly--implicit Euler discretisation, which in combination with extrapolation permits an adaptive step size and order control. Typical simulation results of a multistage industrial flue gas scrubbing process are presented. It is shown, that experimental data can be confirmed if the number concentration of condensation nuclei as an input parameter is roughly known.

Beschreibung: This paper discusses online optimization of real-world transportation systems. We concentrate on transportation problems arising in production and manufacturing processes, in particular in company internal logistics. We describe basic techniques to design online optimization algorithms for such systems, but our main focus is decision support for the planner: which online algorithm is the most appropriate one in a particular setting? We show by means of several examples that traditional methods for the evaluation of online algorithms often do not suffice to judge the strengths and weaknesses of online algorithms. We present modifications of well-known evaluation techniques and some new methods, and we argue that the selection of an online algorithm to be employed in practice should be based on a sound combination of several theoretical and practical evaluation criteria, including simulation.

Beschreibung: Wireless communication networks employ radio frequencies to establish communication links. The available radio spectrum is very limited. To meet today's radio communication demand, this resource has to be administered and reused carefully in order to control mutual interference. The reuse can be organized via separation in space, time, or frequency, for example. The problem, therefore, arises to distribute frequencies to links in a ``reasonable manner''. This is the basic form of the frequency assignment problem. What ``reasonable'' means, how to quantify this measure of quality, which technical side constraints to consider cannot be answered in general. The exact specification of this task and its mathematical model depend heavily on the particular application considered. In this paper we discuss this issue with respect to the GSM standard for mobile communication.

Beschreibung: This paper is a summary of the Round Table: ``The Impact of Mathematical Research on Industry and Vice Versa'' held at 3ecm in Barcelona on July 11, 2000. The round table started with contributions of the three panelists. Irene Fonseca, the panel chair, opened the discussion by stating six questions addressing the main issues of the round table topic. She presented the panel's answers to these questions, drawing on many examples from her own academic experience. In the following additional presentations, the other two panel members added further points of view based on their personal involvement with industry. The round table ended with a lively discussion with members from the audience. This written summary of the oral presentations follows the structure of the round table indicated above.

Beschreibung: This article is about \emph{adaptive column generation techniques} for the solution of duty scheduling problems in public transit. The current optimization status is exploited in an adaptive approach to guide the subroutines for duty generation, LP resolution, and schedule construction toward relevant parts of a large problem. Computational results for three European scenarios are reported.

Beschreibung: The recent spectral bundle method allows to compute, within reasonable time, approximate dual solutions of large scale semidefinite quadratic 0-1 programming relaxations. We show that it also generates a sequence of primal approximations that converge to a primal optimal solution. Separating with respect to these approximations gives rise to a cutting plane algorithm that converges to the optimal solution under reasonable assumptions on the separation oracle and the feasible set. We have implemented a practical variant of the cutting plane algorithm for improving semidefinite relaxations of constrained quadratic 0-1 programming problems by odd-cycle inequalities. We also consider separating odd-cycle inequalities with respect to a larger support than given by the cost matrix and present a heuristic for selecting this support. Our preliminary computational results for max-cut instances on toroidal grid graphs and balanced bisection instances indicate that warm start is highly efficient and that enlarging the support may sometimes improve the quality of relaxations considerably.

Beschreibung: Der Wissenschaftsrat hat in seiner Juli-Sitzung 2001 \glqq Empfehlungen zur digitalen Informationsversorgung durch Hochschulbibliotheken \grqq verabschiedet. Einige der Vorschläge des Wissenschaftsrates können, falls sie von den angesprochenen Institutionen aufgenommen werden, zu einer nachhaltigen Veränderung der wissenschaftlichen Informationslandschaft führen. In meinem kurzen Kommentar zu diesem Papier möchte ich auf einige dieser Anregungen hinweisen.

Beschreibung: Von welcher "Informationsumwelt" träumt jemand, der für seine wissenschaftliche (und sonstige) Arbeit digitale Informationstechnologie intensiv einsetzt? In diesem Artikel beschreibe ich meinen "digitalen Traum". Er ist ganz einfach zu formulieren:"Ich will alles und zwar sofort, jederzeit, "überall" und kostenlos zur Verfügung haben." Ich schildere, was davon heute schon (fast) realisiert ist und was noch fehlt. Ich skizziere einige zentrale Schwierigkeiten der vollständigen Realisierung und skizziere mögliche Lösungen.

Beschreibung: Im Rahmen der biomechanischen Simulation knöcherner Organe ist die Frage nach einer befriedigenden Materialbeschreibung nach wie vor ungelöst. Computertomographische Datensätze liefern eine räumliche Verteilung der (Röntgen-)Dichte und ermöglichen damit eine gute Darstellung der individuellen Geometrie. Weiter können die verschiedenen Materialbestandteile des Knochens, Spongiosa und Kortikalis, voneinander getrennt werden. Aber die richtungsabängige Information der Materialanisotropie ist verloren. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Ansatz für eine anisotrope Materialbeschreibung vorgestellt, die es ermöglicht, den Einfluss der individuellen knöchernen Struktur auf das makroskopische Materialverhalten abzuschätzen.

Beschreibung: Many phenomena in nature and engineering happen simultaneously on rather diverse spatial and temporal scales, i.e.\ exhibit a multi-scale character. Therefore various hierarchical data structures and numerical schemes have been devised to represent quantitatively such phenomena. A special numerical multilevel technique, associated with a particular hierarchical data structure, is so-called Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR). This scheme achieves locally very high spatial and temporal resolutions. Due to its popularity, many scientists are in need of interactive visualization tools for AMR data. In this article we present a 3D texture-based volume rendering algorithm for AMR data, that directly utilizes the hierarchical structure. Thereby interactive rendering even for large data sets is achieved. In particular the problems of interpolation artifacts, opacity corrections, and texture memory limitations are addressed. The algorithm's value in practice is demonstrated with simulation and image data.

Beschreibung: By combining techniques of preparation, histology, confocal microscopy, data visualization and data processing, we have created and recently published a standard brain model for drosophila and honey bee brains. This report describes the algorithms and implementation of the corresponding software modules. At the same time it serves as a user's guide for scientist who want to reproduce the results for differerent species or mutants.

Beschreibung: Several classes of systems of evolution equations with one or two vector unknowns are considered. We investigate also systems with one vector and one scalar unknown. For these classes all equations having the simplest higher symmetry are listed.

Beschreibung: Two traffic streams $\Phi_1$, $\Phi_2$ are offered a link. The calls of $\Phi_i$ require exponential holding times with parameter $\mu$ and are accepted if less than $C_i$ trunks are occupied. Approximating the $\Phi_i$ by appropriate renewal processes meeting their first two moments, defined as the moments of the numbers of calls in virtual links of infinite capacity to which the traffic streams as freed traffics are virtually directed and where the calls get fresh exponential i.i.d.\ holding times with parameter $\mu$, stable recursive algorithms of complexity $O(\max(C_1,C_2))$ are derived for the first two defined as above moments of the individual overflow and freed carried traffics. The results offer a unified handling of both overflow and carried traffics in circuit switching networks with trunk reservation, providing a basis for new two-moment network dimensioning algorithms.

Beschreibung: We study the performance of QCD simulations with dynamical Wilson fermions by combining the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm with parallel tempering on $10^4$ and $12^4$ lattices. In order to compare tempered with standard simulations, covariance matrices between sub-ensembles have to be formulated and evaluated using the general properties of autocorrelations of the parallel tempering algorithm. We find that rendering the hopping parameter $\kappa$ dynamical does not lead to an essential improvement. We point out possible reasons for this observation and discuss more suitable ways of applying parallel tempering to QCD.

Beschreibung: Dem vorliegenden Aufsatz liegt ein Vortrag zugrunde, den die Verfasserin auf der Ersten Gemeinsamen Fachtagung der DBV-Landesverbände Berlin und Brandenburg "Wir machen den Weg frei : Fusionen - Kooperationen in Berlin und Brandenburg" am 17. Oktober 2001 gehalten hat, in der Vortragsreihe "Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Ausleih- und bibliographischen Verbünden - VÖB Berlin, VÖB Brandenburg, KOBV". Der Kooperative Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) ist angetreten, um auf der Basis neuer Technologien zeitgemäße, nutzerorientierte Dienstleistungen für den Informationsbereich zu entwickeln und die Informationsinfrastruktur in der Region Berlin-Brandenburg neu zu organisieren. Dabei setzt der KOBV insbesondere auf das Internet. Die Verfasserin beschreibt die einzelnen Stufen, in denen die Dienste des KOBV aufgebaut wurden und kontinuierlich weiter ausgebaut werden. Dabei zeigt sie Vorteile auf, die Nutzern und Bibliotheken durch den Verbund entstehen, und lotet gleichzeitig die Grenzen aus, die dem Verbund gesetzt sind.

Beschreibung: We report numerical results for SBmethod --- a publically available implementation of the spectral bundle method --- applied to the 7$^{th}$ DIMACS challenge test sets that are semidefinite relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems. The performance of the code is heavily influenced by parameters that control bundle update and eigenvalue computation. Unfortunately, no mathematically sound guidelines for setting them are known. Based on our experience with SBmethod, we propose heuristics for dynamically updating the parameters as well as a heuristc for improving the starting point. These are now the default settings of SBmethod Version 1.1. We compare their performance on the DIMACS instances to our previous best choices for Version 1.0. SBmethod Version 1.1 is also part of the independent DIMACS benchmark by H.~Mittelmann. Based on these results we try to analyze strengths and weaknesses of our approach in comparison to other codes for large scale semidefinite programming.

Beschreibung: Many {\cal NP}-hard graph problems can be solved in polynomial time for graphs with bounded treewidth. Equivalent results are known for pathwidth and branchwidth. In recent years, several studies have shown that this result is not only of theoretical interest but can successfully be applied to find (almost) optimal solutions or lower bounds for diverse optimization problems. To apply a tree decomposition approach, the treewidth of the graph has to be determined, independently of the application at hand. Although for fixed $k$, linear time algorithms exist to solve the decision problem ``treewidth $\leq k$'', their practical use is very limited. The computational tractability of treewidth has been rarely studied so far. In this paper, we compare four heuristics and two lower bounds for instances from applications such as the frequency assignment problem and the vertex coloring problem. Three of the heuristics are based on well-known algorithms to recognize triangulated graphs. The fourth heuristic recursively improves a tree decomposition by the computation of minimal separating vertex sets in subgraphs. Lower bounds can be computed from maximal cliques and the minimum degree of induced subgraphs. A computational analysis shows that the treewidth of several graphs can be identified by these methods. For other graphs, however, more sophisticated techniques are necessary.

Beschreibung: The currently most efficient algorithm for inference with a probabilistic network builds upon a triangulation of a network's graph. In this paper, we show that pre-processing can help in finding good triangulations for probabilistic networks, that is, triangulations with a minimal maximum clique size. We provide a set of rules for stepwise reducing a graph, without losing optimality. This reduction allows us to solve the triangulation problem on a smaller graph. From the smaller graph's triangulation, a triangulation of the original graph is obtained by reversing the reduction steps. Our experimental results show that the graphs of some well-known real-life probabilistic networks can be triangulated optimally just by preprocessing; for other networks, huge reductions in their graph's size are obtained.

Beschreibung: {\begin{rawhtml} 〈a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-007-0178-0"〉 Revised Version unter http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-007-0178-0〈/a〉 \end{rawhtml}} Wireless communication is used in many different situations such as mobile telephony, radio and TV broadcasting, satellite communication, and military operations. In each of these situations a frequency assignment problem arises with application specific characteristics. Researchers have developed different modelling ideas for each of the features of the problem, such as the handling of interference among radio signals, the availability of frequencies, and the optimization criterion. This survey gives an overview of the models and methods that the literature provides on the topic. We present a broad description of the practical settings in which frequency assignment is applied. We also present a classification of the different models and formulations described in the literature, such that the common features of the models are emphasized. The solution methods are divided in two parts. Optimization and lower bounding techniques on the one hand, and heuristic search techniques on the other hand. The literature is classified according to the used methods. Again, we emphasize the common features, used in the different papers. The quality of the solution methods is compared, whenever possible, on publicly available benchmark instances.

Beschreibung: Telota ist ein Kunstwort, das für alle Aktivitäten der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften steht, die der Förderung von Forschung, Kommunikation und Präsentation durch elektronische Medien dienen. In diesem Artikel werden die Entstehung des Telota-Projektes geschildert und die Ziele diskutiert, die mit diesem Projekt erreicht werden sollen. Es geht darum, moderne Informationstechnik bewusst, geplant und nachhaltig für alle Belange der {\rm BBAW} einzusetzen. Informationstechnische Werkzeuge sollen für die wissenschaftliche Arbeit effizient genutzt werden; die Information nach innen und nach außen soll deutlich verbessert werden; eine bessere Kommunikationsinfrastuktur soll die Zusammenarbeit fördern.

Beschreibung: The pole condition is a general concept for the theoretical analysis and the numerical solution of a variety of wave propagation problems. It says that the Laplace transform of the physical solution in radial direction has no poles in the lower complex half-plane. In the present paper we show that for the Helmholtz equation with a radially symmetric potential the pole condition is equivalent to Sommerfeld's radiation condition. Moreover, a new representation formula based on the pole condition is derived and used to prove existence, uniqueness and asymptotic properties of solutions. This lays the foundations of a promising new algorithm to solve time-harmonic scattering problems numerically and provides a new approach for analyzing existing algorithms such as the Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) method and the Bayliss-Gunzburger-Turkel (BGT) algorithm.

Beschreibung: In this paper we study the PML method for Helmholtz-type scattering problems with radially symmetric potential. The PML method consists in surrounding the computational domain by a \textbf{P}erfectly \textbf{M}atched sponge \textbf{L}ayer. We prove that the approximate solution obtained by the PML method converges exponentially fast to the true solution in the computational domain as the thickness of the sponge layer tends to infinity. This is a generalization of results by Lassas and Somersalo based on boundary integral eqaution techniques. Here we use techniques based on the pole condition instead. This makes it possible to treat problems without an explicitly known fundamental solution.

Beschreibung: A family of secant methods based on general rank-1 updates has been revisited in view of the construction of iterative solvers for large non- Hermitian linear systems. As it turns out, both Broydens "good" and "bad" update techniques play a special role - but should be associated with two different line search principles. For Broydens "bad" update technique, a minimum residual principle is natural - thus making it theorectically comparable with a series of well-known algorithms like GMRES. Broydens "good" update technique, however, is shown to be naturally linked with a minimum "next correction" principle - which asymptotically mimics a minimum error principle. The two minimization principles differ significantly for sufficiently large system dimension. Numerical experiments on discretized PDE's of convection diffusion type in 2-D with internal layers give a first impression of the possible power of the derived "good" Broyden variant. {\bf Key Words:} nonsymmetric linear system, secant method, rank-1 update, Broydens method, line search, GMRES. AMS(MOS) {\bf Subject Classifications:} 65F10, 65N20.

Beschreibung: A new adaptive multilevel approach for parabolic PDE's is presented. Full adaptivity of the algorithm is realized by combining multilevel time discretization, better known as extrapolation methods, and multilevel finite element space discretization. In the theoretical part of the paper the existence of asymptotic expansions in terms of time-steps for single-step methods in Hilbert space is established. Finite element approximation then leads to perturbed expansions, whose perturbations, however, can be pushed below a necessary level by means of an adaptive grid control. The theoretical presentation is independent of space dimension. In this part I of the paper details of the algorithm and numerical examples are given for the 1D case only. The numerical results clearly show the significant perspectives opened by the new algorithmic approach.

Beschreibung: In this paper we consider symplectic difference schemes for perturbed Hamiltonian systems of integrable ones, which can cover many important problems. Symplectic difference schemes for general Hamiltonian systems can also be used to these problems. But the perturbation property has not been paid proper attention to, which is important in the method proposed here. Numerical simulation shows that, for this method the time step size can be taken quite large and the qualitative property , such as preserving invariant tori, is also better than usual symplectic difference schemes.

Beschreibung: $G$-invariant cubature formulas for numerical integration over n-dimensional, $G$- invariant integration regions are computed symbolically. The nodes are the common zeros of some $d$-orthogonal polynomials which build an $H$-basis of an ideal. Approaches for these polynomials depending on parameters are made with the help of the theory of linear representations of a group $G$. This theory is also used for the effective computation of necessary conditions which determines the parameters. Another approach uses invariant theory and gröbner bases.

Beschreibung: The FORTRAN preprocessor fpp in the newly introduced Autotasking System of CRAY Research allows automatic vectorization and parallelization on basis of a data dependence analysis. An introduction into data dependence analysis is given, showing how data dependence graphs unveil opportunities for program transformations like vectorization and concurrentization. The report contains a complete description of the preprocessors functionality, its options and directives for increasing the effectiveness of the dependence analyzer and steering the code transformations. Finally, some advice is given for the practical use of fpp on CRAY computers.

Beschreibung: Countable systems of ordinary differential equations appear frequently in chemistry, physics, biology and medicine. They can be considered as ordinary differential equations in sequence spaces. In this work, a full adaptive algorithm for the computational treatment of such systems is developed. The method combines time discretization with extrapolation in Hilbert spaces with a discrete Galerkin approach as discretization of the stationary subproblems. The Galerkin method is based on orthogonal functions of a discrete variable , which are generated by certain weight functions. A theory of countable systems in the associated weighted sequence spaces is developed as well as a theory of the Galerkin method. The Galerkin equations can be assembled either by use of analytical properties of the orthogonal functions or numerically by a multilevel summation algorithm. The resulting algorithm CODEX is applied to many examples of technological interest, in particular from polymer chemistry.

Beschreibung: Parameter-dependent systems of nonlinear equations with symmetry are treated by a combination of symbolic and numerical computations. In the symbolic part of the algorithm the complete analysis of the symmetry occurs, and it is here where symmetrical normal forms, symmetry reduced systems, and block diagonal Jacobians are computed. Given a particular problem, the symbolic algorithm can create and compute through the list of possible bifurcations thereby forming a so-called tree of decisions correlated to the different types of symmetry breaking bifurcation points. The remaining part of the algorithm deals with the numerical pathfollowing based on the implicit reparametrisation as suggested and worked out by Deuflhard/Fiedler/Kunkel. The symmetry preserving bifurcation points are computed using recently developed augmented systems incorporating the use of symmetry. {\bf Keywords:} pathfollowing, mixed symbolic-numeric algorithm, parameter-dependent, nonlinear systems, linear representations.

Beschreibung: Systems of polynomial equations often have symmetry. The Buchberger algorithm which may be used for the solution ignores this symmetry. It is restricted to moderate problems unless factorizing polynomials are found leading to several smaller systems. Therefore two methods are presented which use the symmetry to find factorizing polynomials, decompose the ideal and thus decrease the complexitiy of the system a lot. In a first approach projections determine factorizing polynomials as input for the solution process, if the group contains reflections with respect to a hyperplane. Two different ways are described for the symmetric group Sm and the dihedral group Dm. While for Sm subsystems are ignored if they have the same zeros modulo G as another subsystem, for the dihedral group Dm polynomials with more than two factors are generated with the help of the theory of linear representations and restrictions are used as well. These decomposition algorithms are independent of the finally used solution technique. We used the REDUCE package Groebner to solve examples from CAPRASSE, DEMARET and NOONBURG which illustrate the efficiency of our REDUCE program. A short introduction to the theory of linear representations is given. In a second approach problems of another class are transformed such that more factors are found during the computation; these transformations are based on the theory of linear representations. Examples illustrate these approaches. The range of solvable problems is enlarged significantly.

Beschreibung: Symplectic difference schemes have been shown to be a right formalism for numerical computation of Hamiltonian systems. They are suitable to long time computation and of good qualitative properties. These properties are ensured by the fact that a symplectic difference scheme approximating to a time-independent Hamiltonian system can be regarded as a perturbed time-dependent Hamiltonian system of the original one. That is, a solution of a symplectic difference scheme is a solution of a certain perturbed time dependent Hamiltonian system evaluated at discrete (time) points. This is the main result of the paper. Moreover, linear symplectic difference schemes approximating to a linear time-independent Hamiltonian system can be regarded as a perturbed time-independent Hamiltonian system. So it has all properties that a linear Hamiltonian system has. Based on these results, stochastic webs and chaos in symplectic difference schemes are also discussed. They will appear in numerical simulation for Hamiltonian systems, even with one degree of freedom.

Beschreibung: The potential distribution of reverse biased pn-junctions can be described by a double obstacle problem for the Laplacian. This problem is solved by a self adaptive Finite Element Method involving automatic termination criteria for the iterative solver, local error estimation and local mesh refinement. Special attention is paid to the efficient resolution of the geometries typically arising in semiconductor device simulation. The algorithm is applied to a reverse biased pn- junction with multi-step field plate and stop- electrode to illustrate its efficiency and reliability.

Beschreibung: The paper presents a theoretical characterization of the often observed asymptotic mesh independence of Newton's method, which means that Newton's method applied to discretized operator equations behaves essentially the same for all sufficiently fine discretizations. The theory does not need any uniform Lipschitz assumptions that were necessary in comparable earlier treatments. The refined Newton-Mysovskii theorem, which will be of interest in a wider context, gives both existence and uniqueness of the solution and quadratic convergence for sufficiently good starting points. Attention is restricted to Galerkin approximations even though similar results should hold for finite difference methods - but corresponding proofs would certainly be more technical. As an illustrative example, adaptive 1-D collocation methods are discussed.

Beschreibung: Oxidation mechanisms even for rather simple hydrocarbons like heptane consist due to the occurrence of many isomeric structures of thousands of reactions of hundreds of species. The automatic generation of these reaction mechanisms using artificial intelligence means is described. Results are presented for n-heptane-air mixtures, where a hand-written reaction mechanism tested against experimental data is available.

Beschreibung: The paper surveys three aspects of chemical computing, which seem to play a role in recent developments. First, extrapolation methods for the numerical treatment of differential- algebraic equations are introduced. The associated extrapolation code LIMEX has reached a certain level of sophistication, which makes it a real competitor to the elsewhere widely used multi-step code DASSL of Petzold. Second, adaptive methods of lines for partial differential equations such as those arising in combustion problems are treated. Both static and dynamic regridding techniques are discussed in some detail. Finally, some new ideas about the treatment of the kinetic equations arising from polymer reactions are presented. The new feature of the suggested approach is the application of a Galerkin procedure using sets of orthogonal polynomials over a discrete variable (which, of course, in the case of polymer reactions is the polymer degree). The new approach may open the door to a new reliable low dimensional treatment of complex polymer reactions.

Beschreibung: The discrete Galerkin method developed by the authors has turned out to be an efficient tool for the computational treatment of very large scale ODE systems arising in polyreaction kinetics. Up to now, this approach has been worked out in detail for homogeneous polymer reactions. The present paper deals with one line of possible extensions of the method to the case of so-called heterogeneous processes, which may appear e. g. in smog reactions. The associated mathematical models involve reaction coefficients depending on the chain length of the reacting polymer. The herein suggested extension is worked out in some detail on the basis of the earlier paper. In addition, a numerical example describing polymer degradation is included.

Beschreibung: Newton methods for nonlinear problems are known to require the solution of a sequence of linear problems of the same type. For very large scale problems, as understood herein, the arising linear systems can only be solved by iterative methods. Then Newtons iteration appears as outer iteration. The question of interest will be to control the accuracy of the inner iteration such that the convergence speed of Newtons method is preserved. The purpose of the paper is to combine the concept of inexact Newton methods with the concept of the affine invariant exact Newton methods - which is important for problems with ill- conditioned Jacobian matrices (such as typical 2-D or 3-D discretized partial differential equations).

Beschreibung: A variety of secant methods has been revisited in view of the construction of iterative solvers for large nonsymmetric linear systems $ Ax = b $ stemming from the discretization of convection diffusion equations. In the first section, we tried to approximate $ A ^{-1} $ directly. Since the sparsity structure of A- is not known, additional storage vectors are needed during the iteration. In the next section, an incomplete factorization $ LU $ of $ A $ is the starting point and we tried to improve this easy invertible approximation of $ A $. The update is constructed in such a way that the sparsity structure of $ L $ and $ U $ is maintained. Two different sparsity preserving updates are investigated from theoretical and practical point of view. Numerical experiments on discretized PDEs of convection diffusion type in 2- D with internal layers and on "arbitrary" matrices with symmetric sparsity structure are given. {\bf Key words:} nonsymmetric linear system, sparse secant method, Broyden's method, incomplete factorization.

Beschreibung: The mathematical modeling of macromolecular reactions leads to countable (possibly infinite) systems of ordinary differential equations (CODE's). This paper reviews two recent developments of the so-called discrete Galerkin method, which has been developed for the numerical treatment of countable systems, which arise e.g. in polymer chemistry. The first approach can be considered as a method of lines with moving basis functions and has been implemented recently in the program package MACRON. The second type of the Galerkin method is characterized by a so-called outer time discretization of the complete problem and an appropriate and efficient solution of the arising subproblems. This method is realized in the research code CODEX.

Beschreibung: In continuation of part I this paper develops a variable-order time discretization in Hilbert space based on a multiplicative error correction. Matching of time and space errors as explained in part I allows to construct an adaptive multilevel discretization of the parabolic problem. In contrast to the extrapolation method in time, which has been used in part I, the new time discretization allows to separate space and time errors and further to solve fewer elliptic subproblems with less effort, which is essential in view of the application to space dimension greater than one. Numerical examples for space dimension one are included which clearly indicate the improvement.

Beschreibung: In the present paper, the improvement of an incomplete factorization of a non-symmetric matrix A is discussed. Starting from the ideas of sparsity preserving quasi-Newton methods, an algorithm is developed which improves the approximation of A by the incomplete factorization maintaining the sparsity structure of the matrices. No renumbering of the unknowns or the admittance of additional fill-in is necessary. The linear convergence of the algorithm is proved under the assumption, that $ L $ and $ U $* have the same sparsity structure and an incomplete factorization with some reasonable approximation property exits. In combination with this algorithm, the method of incomplete factorization and its several modifications are applicable to a wider class of problems with improved convergence qualities. This is shown by a numerical example. {\bf Key Words:} non-symmetric linear system, sparse secant method, incomplete factorization. AMS(MOS) {\bf Subject Classifications:} 65F10, 65N20, 65N30.

Beschreibung: Das CRAY-Handbuch des ZIB beschreibt nach einer grundlegenden bersicht detailliert die Handhabung von UNICOS-Dateien, die Verwendung von UNICOS-Kommandos und schließlich die (für Benutzer allein zugelassene) Ausführung von Batchjobs auf der CRAY. Neben der Erreichbarkeit der CRAY über das TCP/IP-Netz werden die Compiler FORTRAN, PASCAL und C beschrieben und schließlich auf die Optimierung der Rechenzeit ebenso wie auf die Fehlersuche eingegangen. Ein umfangreicher Anhang führt bereitgestellte Programmpakete, weiterführende Literatur, Zahlenbereiche und Zeichendarstellung an der CRAY auf.

Beschreibung: Diese Vorlesung ist eine Einführung in die Numerische Mathematik als einem der drei Bereiche (neben den Naturwissenschaften und der Informatik) des am besten mit dem Begriff Scientific Computing charakterisierten Forschungsgebietes. Aufgabe dieser relativ jungen Wissenschaft ist die Entwicklung von Rechenverfahren für Probleme aus den Naturwissenschaften mit Hilfe mathematischer Methoden.

Beschreibung: This paper presents the new program package MACRON for the simulation of macromolecular kinetics including standard chemical reactions. Such problems lead to countable (possibly) infinite systems of ordinary differential equations (CODE's), which are numerically treated by the so-called discrete Galerkin method here. By a chemical compiler the required analytical preprocessing is performed, such that the complete reaction system, standard kinetics as well as macromolecular reactions, can be entered in the chemical formalism. Typical macromolecular reaction steps are chain addition, termination, chain transfer and degradation (cracking). In order to ensure efficiency and reliability, high sophisticated numerical routines are built within the package. MACRON can be used without a detailed knowledge of the used numerical methods. As an illustration the application of MACRON to some realistic problems is presented.

Beschreibung: We study the power-law type solutions of the fourth order field equations derived from a generic quadratic Lagrangian density in the case of multidimensional Bianchi I cosmological models. All the solutions of the system of algebraic equations have been found, using computer algebra, from a search of the Groebner bases associated to it. While, in space dimension $ d = 3 $ , the Einsteinian Kasner metric is still the most general power-law type solution, for $ d 〉 3 $ , no solution, other than the Minkowski space-time, is common to the three systems of equations associated with the three contributions to the Lagrangian density. In the case of a pure Riemann-squared contribution (suggested by a recent calculation of the effective action for the heterotic string), the possibility exists to realize a splitting of the $ d $-dimensional space into a ( $ d - 3 $)-dimensional internal space and a physical 3- dimensional space, the latter expanding in time as a power bigger than 2 (about 4.5 when $ d = 9 $).

Beschreibung: Im vorliegenden Bericht wird die Parallelisierung zweier numerischer Algorithmen zur Lösung gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungssysteme 1.Ordnung (explizite und semi-implizite Euler- Diskretisierung und $h$-Extrapolation) beschrieben. Implementiert wurden die Algorithmen mit OCCAM2 unter TDS (Transputer Development System) mit bis zu 4 Transputern T800. Meßwerte für die erreichten Beschleunigungen werden anhand mehrer Beispiele von Differentialgleichungs-systemen angegeben. {\bf Schlüsselwörter:} Adaptive, parallele Systeme; OCCAM2; Transputer; numerische Gleichungslöser; Euler-Diskretisierung; $h$-Extrapolation.

Beschreibung: BOXES computes a triangulation from a 2D domain description which consists of an arbitrary set of rectangles. Each rectangle may have attributes to control the triangulating process, define subdomain classes, or specify boundary conditions. The output of the program can be used as a coarse grid for KASKADE or one of its variants. Additional features are extensive checking of the user input, graphical display, and simple editing.

Beschreibung: This report presents the final realization and implementation of a global inexact Newton method proposed by Deuflhard. In order to create a complete piece of software, a recently developed iterative solver (program GBIT) due to Deuflhard, Freund, Walter is adapted and serves as the standard iterative linear solver. Alternative linear iterative solvers may be adapted as well, e.g. the widely distributed code GMRES. The new software package GIANT (Global Inexact Affine Invariant Newton Techniques) allows an efficient and robust numerical solution of very large scale highly nonlinear systems. Due to the user friendly interface and its modular design, the software package is open for an easy adaptation to specific problems. Numerical experiments for some selected problems illustrate performance and usage of the package.

Beschreibung: Efficient implementations of irregular problems on vector and parallel architectures are generally hard to realize. An important class of problems are Gauß-Seidel iteration schemes applied to irregular data sets. The unstructured data dependences arising there prevent restructuring compilers from generating efficient code for vector or parallel machines. It is shown, how to structure the data dependences by decomposing the underlying data set using graph coloring techniques and by specifying a particular execution order already on the algorithm level. Methods to master the irregularities originating from different types of tasks are proposed. An application is given and some open issues and future developments are discussed.