Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Tsao, Nai-Kuan.
A class of direct inverse decomposition algorithms for solving systems of linear equations is presented. Their behavior in the presence of round-off errors is analyzed. It is shown that under some mild restrictions on their implementation, the class of direct inverse decomposition algorithms presented are equivalent in terms of the error complexity measures.
A novel general approach to round-off error analysis using the error complexity concepts is described. This is applied to the analysis of the Gaussian Elimination and Gauss-Jordan scheme for solving linear equations. The results show that the two algorithms are equivalent in terms of our error complexity measures. Thus the inherently parallel Gauss-Jordan scheme can be implemented with confidence if parallel computers are available.
An error complexity analysis of two algorithms for solving a unit-diagonal triangular system is given. The results show that the unusual sequential algorithm is optimal in terms of having the minimal maximum and cumulative error complexity measures. The parallel algorithm described by Sameh and Brent is shown to be essentially equivalent to the optimal sequential one. Some numerical experiments are also taught.