Large-Scale Scientific Computing

Coverage in this proceedings volume includes robust multilevel and hierarchical preconditioning methods, applications for large scale computations and optimization of coupled engineering problems, and applications of metaheuristics to large-scale problems.

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Plenary and Invited Papers.- Mesh Independent Convergence Rates Via Differential Operator Pairs.- Bridging Methods for Coupling Atomistic and Continuum Models.- Parallelization of Advection-Diffusion-Chemistry Modules.- Comments on the GMRES Convergence for Preconditioned Systems.- Optimization Based Stabilization of Nonlinear Control Systems.- Robust Multilevel and Hierarchical Preconditioning Methods.- On Smoothing Surfaces in Voxel Based Finite Element Analysis of Trabecular Bone.- Application of Hierarchical Decomposition: Preconditioners and Error Estimates for Conforming and Nonconforming FEM.- Multilevel Preconditioning of Rotated Trilinear Non-conforming Finite Element Problems.- A Fixed-Grid Finite Element Algebraic Multigrid Approach for Interface Shape Optimization Governed by 2-Dimensional Magnetostatics.- The Effect of a Minimum Angle Condition on the Preconditioning of the Pivot Block Arising from 2-Level-Splittings of Crouzeix-Raviart FE-Spaces.- Monte Carlo: Tools, Applications, Distributed Computing.- Development of a 3D Parallel Finite Element Monte Carlo Simulator for Nano-MOSFETs.- Numerical Study of Algebraic Problems Using Stochastic Arithmetic.- Monte Carlo Simulation of GaN Diode Including Intercarrier Interactions.- Wigner Ensemble Monte Carlo: Challenges of 2D Nano-Device Simulation.- Monte Carlo Simulation for Reliability Centered Maintenance Management.- Monte Carlo Algorithm for Mobility Calculations in Thin Body Field Effect Transistors: Role of Degeneracy and Intersubband Scattering.- Operator Splittings, Their Application and Realization.- A Parallel Combustion Solver within an Operator Splitting Context for Engine Simulations on Grids.- Identifying the Stationary Viscous Flows Around a Circular Cylinder at High Reynolds Numbers.- On the Richardson Extrapolation as Applied to the Sequential Splitting Method.- A Penalty-Projection Method Using Staggered Grids for Incompressible Flows.- Qualitatively Correct Discretizations in an Air Pollution Model.- Limit Cycles and Bifurcations in a Biological Clock Model.- Large Matrices Arising in Traveling Wave Bifurcations.- Recent Advances in Methods and Applications for Large Scale Computations and Optimization of Coupled Engineering Problems.- Parallel Implementation of LQG Balanced Truncation for Large-Scale Systems.- Finite Element Solution of Optimal Control Problems Arising in Semiconductor Modeling.- Orthogonality Measures and Applications in Systems Theory in One and More Variables.- DNS and LES of Scalar Transport in a Turbulent Plane Channel Flow at Low Reynolds Number.- Adaptive Path Following Primal Dual Interior Point Methods for Shape Optimization of Linear and Nonlinear Stokes Flow Problems.- Analytical Effective Coefficient and First-Order Approximation to Linear Darcy's Law through Block Inclusions.- Control Systems.- Optimal Control for Lotka-Volterra Systems with a Hunter Population.- Modeling Supply Shocks in Optimal Control Models of Illicit Drug Consumption.- Multicriteria Optimal Control and Vectorial Hamilton-Jacobi Equation.- Descent-Penalty Methods for Relaxed Nonlinear Elliptic Optimal Control Problems.- Approximation of the Solution Set of Impulsive Systems.- Lipschitz Stability of Broken Extremals in Bang-Bang Control Problems.- On State Estimation Approaches for Uncertain Dynamical Systems with Quadratic Nonlinearity: Theory and Computer Simulations.- Using the Escalator Boxcar Train to Determine the Optimal Management of a Size-Distributed Forest When Carbon Sequestration Is Taken into Account.- On Optimal Redistributive Capital Income Taxation.- Numerical Methods for Robust Control.- Runge-Kutta Schemes in Control Constrained Optimal Control.- Optimal Control of a Class of Size-Structured Systems.- Environmental Modelling.- Modelling Evaluation of Emission Scenario Impact in Northern Italy.- Modelling of Airborne Primary and Secondary Particulate Matter with the EUROS-Model.- Comparative Study with Data Assimilation Experiments Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Method.- Effective Indices for Emissions from Road Transport.- On the Numerical Solution of the Heat Transfer Equation in the Process of Freeze Drying.- Results Obtained with a Semi-lagrangian Mass-Integrating Transport Algorithm by Using the GME Grid.- The Evaluation of the Thermal Behaviour of an Underground Repository of the Spent Nuclear Fuel.- Study of the Pollution Exchange between Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece.- A Collaborative Working Environment for a Large Scale Environmental Model.- Advances on Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting Systems for Industrial Plants and Urban Areas by Using the MM5-CMAQ-EMIMO.- Computational Grid and Large-Scale Problems.- Ultra-fast Semiconductor Carrier Transport Simulation on the Grid.- Simple Grid Access for Parameter Study Applications.- A Report on the Effect of Heterogeneity of the Grid Environment on a Grid Job.- Agents as Resource Brokers in Grids - Forming Agent Teams.- Parallel Dictionary Compression Using Grid Technologies.- A Gradient Hybrid Parallel Algorithm to One-Parameter Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems.- Quantum Random Bit Generator Service for Monte Carlo and Other Stochastic Simulations.- A Hierarchical Approach in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization.- Application of Metaheuristics to Large-Scale Problems.- Optimal Wireless Sensor Network Layout with Metaheuristics: Solving a Large Scale Instance.- Semi-dynamic Demand in a Non-permutation Flowshop with Constrained Resequencing Buffers.- Probabilistic Model of Ant Colony Optimization for Multiple Knapsack Problem.- An Ant-Based Model for Multiple Sequence Alignment.- An Algorithm for the Frequency Assignment Problem in the Case of DVB-T Allotments.- Optimizing the Broadcast in MANETs Using a Team of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Ant Colony Models for a Virtual Educational Environment Based on a Multi-Agent System.- Simulated Annealing Optimization of Multi-element Synthetic Aperture Imaging Systems.- Adaptive Heuristic Applied to Large Constraint Optimisation Problem.- Parameter Estimation of a Monod-Type Model Based on Genetic Algorithms and Sensitivity Analysis.- Analysis of Distributed Genetic Algorithms for Solving a Strip Packing Problem.- Computer Mediated Communication and Collaboration in a Virtual Learning Environment Based on a Multi-agent System with Wasp-Like Behavior.- Design of 2-D Approximately Zero-Phase Separable IIR Filters Using Genetic Algorithms.- Contributed Talks.- Optimal Order Finite Element Method for a Coupled Eigenvalue Problem on Overlapping Domains.- Superconvergent Finite Element Postprocessing for Eigenvalue Problems with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions.- Uniform Convergence of Finite-Difference Schemes for Reaction-Diffusion Interface Problems.- Immersed Interface Difference Schemes for a Parabolic-Elliptic Interface Problem.- Surface Reconstruction and Lagrange Basis Polynomials.- A Second-Order Cartesian Grid Finite Volume Technique for Elliptic Interface Problems.- MIC(0) DD Preconditioning of FEM Elasticity Systems on Unstructured Tetrahedral Grids.- Parallelizations of the Error Correcting Code Problem.- Benchmarking Performance Analysis of Parallel Solver for 3D Elasticity Problems.- Re-engineering Technology and Software Tools for Distributed Computations Using Local Area Network.- On Single Precision Preconditioners for Krylov Subspace Iterative Methods.- A Parallel Algorithm for Multiple-Precision Division by a Single-Precision Integer.- Improving Triangular Preconditioner Updates for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems.- Parallel DD-MIC(0) Preconditioning of Nonconforming Rotated Trilinear FEM Elasticity Systems.