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Sparse grids have gained increasing interest in recent years for the numerical treatment of high-dimensional problems. Whereas classical numerical discretization schemes fail in more than three or fou
This proceedings volume collects review articles that summarize research conducted at the Munich Centre of Advanced Computing (MAC) from 2008 to 2012. The articles address the increasing gap between w
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Tearing and interconnecting methods, such as FETI, FETI-DP, BETI, etc., are among the most successful domain decomposition solvers for partial differential equations. The purpose of this book is to gi
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This volume contains the extended version of selected talks given at the international research workshop "Coping with Complexity: Model Reduction and Data Analysis", Ambleside, UK, August 31 – Septemb
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This volume contains a wide-ranging cross-section of the papers presented at the BAIL 2008 conference, which was held from 28 July to 1 August 2008 at the University of Limerick, Ireland. The BAIL con
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The conceptualization of a problem (modeling) and the computational solution of this problem (simulation),is the foundation of Computational Science. This coupled endeavor is unique in several
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This collection covers advances in automatic differentiation theory and practice. Computer scientists and mathematicians will learn about recent developments in automatic differentiation theory as wel
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