On the effects of using the Grassmann-Taksar-Heyman method in iterative aggregation-disaggregation

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 287-303

  Dayar, Tuǧrul ^a,b   Stewart, William J ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation disaggregation; Decomposability; Gaussian elimination; Markov chains; Sparsity schemes; Stationary probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000790476     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0917021     Document Type: Article

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