Algorithms for Approximation II: Based on the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Algorithms for Approximation, held at Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, July 1988

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Constrained spline approximation of functions and data based on constrained knot removal....Pages 4-20
Near real-time spline fitting of long sequences of uniformly-spaced data....Pages 21-29
An algorithm for knot location in bivariate least squares spline approximation....Pages 30-36
A knot placement strategy for least squares spline fitting based on the use of local polynomial approximations....Pages 37-45
An algorithm for nonlinear splines with non-negativity constraints....Pages 46-53
Spline curve fitting of digitized contours....Pages 54-61
A B-spline approximation algorithm for quasi-interpolation or filtering....Pages 62-71
On knots and nodes for spline interpolation....Pages 72-77
A basis for certain spaces of multivariate polynomials and exponentials....Pages 80-98
Monotone piecewise cubic data fitting....Pages 99-106
Direct and converse results on simultaneous approximation by the method of Bernstein-Durrmeyer operators....Pages 107-116
Orthogonality and approximation in a Sobolev space....Pages 117-124
Piecewise polynomial approximation of polynomial curves....Pages 125-133
Calculation of the energy of a piecewise polynomial surface....Pages 134-143
Radial basis function interpolation on an infinite regular grid....Pages 146-169
The Fourier operator of even order and its application to an extremum problem in interpolation....Pages 170-176
On multivariate polynomial interpolation....Pages 177-184
Algorithms for the construction of data dependent triangulations....Pages 185-192
Algorithms for computing best parametric cubic interpolation....Pages 193-207
Data fitting by penalized least squares....Pages 210-227
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A semiinfinite programming algorithm for constrained best approximation....Pages 228-235
Inference region for a method of local approximation by using the residuals....Pages 236-243
Numerical methods for Chebyshev approximation of complex-valued functions....Pages 246-264
A fast algorithm for linear complex Chebyshev approximation....Pages 265-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Uniform subdivision algorithms for curves and surfaces....Pages 278-295
Approximation by spheres....Pages 296-302
Interpolation of scattered data on a spherical domain....Pages 303-310
Least squares best fit geometric elements....Pages 311-319
Uniform piecewise approximation on the sphere....Pages 320-333
Approximation theory and numerical linear algebra....Pages 336-360
An algorithm for computing minimum norm solutions of finite moment problem....Pages 361-368
Numerical solution of the biharmonic equation using different types of bivariate spline functions....Pages 369-376
Quadrature solution of integral equations: a uniform treatment of Fredholm and Volterra equations....Pages 377-386
Increasing the convergence modulus of an asymptotic expansion: an algorithm for numerical differentiation....Pages 387-394
Approximation and parameter estimation in ordinary differential equations....Pages 395-403
Constrained complex approximation algorithms in communication engineering....Pages 406-423
Integration of absolute amplitude from a decibel B-spline fit....Pages 424-448
A nonlinear least squares data fitting problem arising in microwave measurement....Pages 449-457
A complex minimax algorithm for phase-only adaptation in antenna arrays....Pages 458-465
A catalogue of algorithms for approximation....Pages 466-475
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