Merit functions for nonlinear programming problems -- Global convergence of Newton-Like methods -- Topics in global optimization -- The tunnelling method for solving the constrained global optimization problem with several non-connected feasible regions -- An approach to nonlinear l 1 data fitting -- Towards a unified approach to data smoothing -- Generalizing the LINPACK condition estimator -- Demonstration of a matrix Laboratory -- A fast algorithm for the Euclidean distance location problem -- Discrete pressure equations in incompressible flow problems -- Standing waves in diffusive reacting systems -- A study of the stability of the interface between two inmiscible viscous fluids -- Solving Large nonlinear systems of equations arising in mechanics -- Smooth monotone spline interpolation -- Some hybrid implicit stiffly stable methods for ordinary differential equations -- Developing effective multistep methods for the numerical solution of systems of second order initial value problems -- Numerical solution of singular two-point boundary-value problems by invariant imbedding -- Difficulties in evaluating differential equation software -- Topics in finite element discretization of parabolic evolution problems -- A class of exponentially fitted piecewise continuous methods for initial value problems -- Recursive quadratic programming algorithms and their convergence properties -- Dual and primal-dual methods for solving strictly convex quadratic programs -- The design and use of a frontal scheme for solving sparse unsymmetric equations