Accession Number:

AD0780648

Title:

Accelerating Procedures for Methods of Conjugate Directions.

Descriptive Note:

Technical summary rept.,

Corporate Author:

WISCONSIN UNIV MADISON MATHEMATICS RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Ritter,Klaus

Report Date:

1974-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

49.0

Abstract:

The directions of descent generated by a method of conjugate directions are used to perform special steps which accelerate the rate of convergence of these methods. Independent of the number of variables a 2-step superlinearly convergent method can be obtained. Modified author abstract

Descriptors:

• *NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS)
• OPTIMIZATION
• ALGORITHMS
• CONVERGENCE
• THEOREMS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Operations Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE