Computational Complexity and Feasibility of Data Processing and Interval Computations

Targeted audience • Specialists in numerical computations, especially in numerical optimiza­ tion, who are interested in designing algorithms with automatie result ver­ ification, and who would therefore be interested in knowing how general their algorithms caIi in principle be. • Mathematicians and...

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Main Authors: Kreinovich, V., Lakeyev, A.V. (Author), Rohn, J. (Author), Kahl, P.T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Applied Optimization
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 13 Physical Corollary: Prediction is not Always Possible, Even for Linear Systems with Known Dynamics
  • 14 Engineering Corollary: Signal Processing is NP-Hard
  • 15 Bright Sides of NP-Hardness of Interval Computations I: NP-Hard Means That Good Interval Heuristics can Solve other Hard Problems
  • 16 If Input Intervals are Narrow Enough, Then Interval Computations are Almost Always Easy
  • 17 Optimization — a First Example of a Numerical Problem in which Interval Methods are used: Computational Complexity and Feasibility
  • 18 Solving Systems of Equations
  • 19 Approximation of Interval Functions
  • 20 Solving Differential Equations
  • 21 Properties of Interval Matrices I: Main Results
  • 22 Properties of Interval Matrices II: Proofs and Auxiliary Results
  • 23 Non-Interval Uncertainty I: Ellipsoid Uncertainty and its Generalizations
  • 24 Non-Interval Uncertainty II:Multi-Intervals and Their Generalizations
  • 25 What if Quantities are Discrete?
  • 1 Informal Introduction: Data Processing, Interval Computations, and Computational Complexity
  • 2 The Notions of Feasibility and NP-Hardness: Brief Introduction
  • 3 In the General Case, the Basic Problem of Interval Computations is Intractable
  • 4 Basic Problem of Interval Computations for Polynomials of a Fixed Number of Variables
  • 5 Basic Problem of Interval Computations for Polynomials of Fixed Order
  • 6 Basic Problem of Interval Computations for Polynomials with Bounded Coefficients
  • 7 Fixed Data Processing Algorithms, Varying Data: Still NP-Hard
  • 8 Fixed Data, Varying Data Processing Algorithms: Still Intractable
  • 9 What if We only Allow some Arithmetic Operations in Data Processing?
  • 10 For Fractionally-Linear Functions, a Feasible Algorithm Solves the Basic Problem of Interval Computations
  • 11 Solving Interval Linear Systems is NP-Hard
  • 12 Interval Linear Systems: Search for Feasible Classes
  • 26 Error Estimation for Indirect Measurements: Interval Computation Problem is (Slightly) Harder than a Similar Probabilistic Computational Problem
  • A In Case of Interval (Or More General) Uncertainty, no Algorithm can Choose the Simplest Representative
  • B Error Estimation for Indirect Measurements: Case of Approximately Known Functions
  • C From Interval Computations to Modal Mathematics
  • D Beyond NP: Two Roots Good, one Root Better
  • E Does “NP-Hard”Really Mean “Intractable”?
  • F Bright Sides of NP-Hardness of Interval Computations II: Freedom of Will?
  • G The Worse, The Better: Paradoxical Computational Complexity of Interval Computations and Data Processing
  • References