• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.27 no.3_4
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• pp.621-638
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• 2009

The linear system Ax = b will have (i) no solution, (ii) only one non-trivial (trivial) solution, or (iii) infinity of solutions. Our focus will be on cases (ii) and (iii). The mathematical models of many real-world problems give rise to (a) ill-conditioned linear systems, (b) singular linear systems (A is singular with all its linearly independent rows are sufficiently linearly independent), or (c) ill-conditioned singular linear systems (A is singular with some or all of its strictly linearly independent rows are near-linearly dependent). This article highlights the scope and need of a randomized algorithm for ill-conditioned/singular systems when a reasonably narrow domain of a solution vector is specified. Further, it stresses that with the increasing computing power, the importance of randomized algorithms is also increasing. It also points out that, for many optimization linear/nonlinear problems, randomized algorithms are increasingly dominating the deterministic approaches and, for some problems such as the traveling salesman problem, randomized algorithms are the only alternatives.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.29 no.5_6
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• pp.1337-1349
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• 2011

So far as a solution of the given consistent linear system is concerned many numerical methods - both mathematically non-iterative as well as iterative - have been reported in the literature over the last couple of centuries. Most of these methods consider all the equations including linearly dependent ones in the system and obtain a solution whenever it exists. Since linearly dependent equations do not add any new information to a system concerning a solution we have proposed an algorithm that identifies them and prunes them in the process of solving the system. The pruning process does not involve row/column interchanges as in the case of Gauss reduction with partial/complete pivoting. We demonstrate here that the use of pruning as an inbuilt part of our solution process reduces computational and storage complexities and also computational error.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 1999

We classified preprocessing methods into (1) analytic methods, (2) methods for removing implied free variables, (3) methods using pivot or elementary row operations, (4) methods for removing linearly dependent rows and columns and (5) methods for dense columns. We noted some considerations to which should be paid attention when preprocessing methods are applied to interior point methods for linear programming. We proposed an efficient order of preprocessing methods and data structures. We also noted the recovery process for dual solutions. We implemented the proposed preprocessing methods. and tested it with 28 large scale problems of NETLIB. We compared the results of it with those of preprocessing routines of HOPDM, BPDPM and CPLEX.