• Industry and Solution White Papers
• IMSL® Numerical Library White Papers
• PV-WAVE® Family of products White Papers

Industry and Solution White Papers

Title		Description		File Size
Neural Networks: An Introduction		Describes the fundamental benefits and uses of Neural Network technology.		PDF (205K)
High Performance Applications with Advanced Numerical Analysis on the .NET Framework		Explores the strengths of the .NET platform with respect to numerical analysis and offers tips for increasing the performance of .NET applications.		PDF (171K)
Analyzing Statistically Designed Experiments		Describes how to analyze data from statistically designed experiments in industry, business and research.		PDF (294K)
The Problem with Portals: Envisioning the Best Technologies for the Enterprise Information Portal		Explores strategies and technologies for making enterprise information available.		PDF (303K)
Integrating Simulation Research Into Curriculum Modules		Describes the development of modules for teaching a senior-level course, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, that incorporate the results of state-of-the-art simulation techniques.		PHP
Evaluating American-Style Call Option Prices Based on Constrained Least-Squares		Gives examples for computing the current value of an American call option using the Black-Scholes PDE.		PDF (92K)
Aasen's Method for Linear Systems with Self-Adjoint Matrices		Provides the formulas for complex matrices and also mentions a technique for stabilizing the diagonal elements of the tri-diagonal factor.		PHP

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IMSL Numerical Library White Papers

Title		Description		File Size
Embedding Analytics for Competitive Advantage		Outlines three successful approaches taken by software development companies across a variety of industries to embed advanced analytics into their products.		PDF (311K)
Microsoft Business Intelligence with Numerical Libraries		Describes how to integrate third-party data mining algorithms into the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) using the IMSL C# Numerical Library Cluster K-means algorithm as an example.		PDF (707K)
Parallel Programming and the IMSL® Libraries: An Overview		Provides an overview of parallel computing and details about the use of Visual Numerics products for High Performance Computing.		PDF (245K)
IMSL® C# with Excel and VSTO: An Introduction and Walkthrough		Provides detailed information on creating a Microsoft Excel Add-In using VSTO to call the IMSL C# Numerical Library.		PDF (721K)
Python™ and IMSL®		Examines three Python environments and describes and how calls are made to the appropriate IMSL Library.		PDF (484K)
Visual Numerics Technology for Neural Network Analysis		Describes Visual Numerics' implementation of Neural Network technology in technical detail.		PDF (387K)
Portfolio Optimization via Efficient Frontier with IMSL®		Describes how to build a portfolio with the proper proportion of its components that will balance minimum risk and maximum return.		PDF (101K)
Advanced Forecasting Functionality with the IMSL Library Auto_ARIMA Function		Provides an in-depth look at the Auto_ARIMA function and its constituents with an application to financial data.		PDF (214K)
Calling the IMSL C Numerical Library from Java		Describes how to use the Java Native Interface (JNI) to call an IMSL C Numerical Library function from Java.		PDF (95K)
High Performance Fortran Versus Explicit Message Passing on the IBM SP-2		Describes high-performance parallel implementations of the LU, QR, and Cholesky factorizations and their associated solvers in double precision and double precision complex for the IBM SP-2.		PHP

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PV-WAVE Family of Products White Papers

Title		Description		File Size
8-bit and 24-bit Color Graphics in PV-WAVE		Provides details on how 24-bit graphics can be used with PV-WAVE.		PDF (259K)
JWAVE Architectures		Describes how JWAVE can be used in a wide variety of application architectures.		DOC (100K)
Using JWAVE 3.5 in Server Side Java Applications		Describes how JWAVE can be used for client/server and custom web-architected solutions.		DOC (231K)
Creating TS-WAVE User Functions		Outlines how to create TS-WAVE user functions, use the data manager and user interface routines.		PDF (140K)
JWAVE and CORBA		Discusses how JWAVE can plug into CORBA.		PHP
Petrophysical Core Analysis with X-ray and MRI Tomography: Visualization Using PV-WAVE and Data Explorer		Presents software that was developed using PV-WAVE and IBM Data Explorer for analyzing 2-D and 3-D tomographic images of oil well cores in support of petrophysical and reservoir analysis.		PDF (134K)
Interactive Scientific Visual Data Analysis Using Java, PV-WAVE and IMSL		Describes using Java to create an interface with legacy code through a Web browser.		PDF (486K)
VDA Tools Technology Unleashed		Shows how VDA tools can be easily applied in new applications and retrofit to existing applications.		PHP
Sensor Response Modeling for Trackers		Examines the capabilities of a sensor response model to evaluate object sighting measurement accuracy by implementing a selected candidate sensor design and signal/image processing technique.		PDF (181K)
JWAVE™ in the CAVE™ at Virginia Tech		Describes how, in partnership with the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA), Virginia Tech has built a Visualization Laboratory capable of performing scientific visual data analysis of volumetric, three-dimensional data.		PHP
VDA Tool Technology		Provides an overview of the VDA Tool Architecture, a framework for developing cross-platform applications with graphic-user interfaces in PV-WAVE.		PHP
Connecting PV-WAVE to ArcView and ARC/INFO		Describes the available connection methods from PV-WAVE to ArcView and ARC/INFO.		PHP
Efficient Programming with PV-WAVE Widgets		Details the recommended programming practices within PV-WAVE Widgets to reduce the occurrence of errors generated due to the lack of virtual memory.		PHP

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