Editors M.J.Goovaerts,CentrumvoorVerzekeringswetenschap,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,Huis Eygen Heerd,Minderbroederstraat 5, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail:
[email protected] T. Mitsui, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. E-mail: tom.mitsui@ cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp S. Brenner, Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. E-mail:
[email protected] K. Ng, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. E-mail:
[email protected] B. Sommeijer, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Postbus 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail:
[email protected] L. Wuytack, Departement Wiskunde en Informatica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Middelheimlaan 1, B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium. E-mail:
[email protected] Associate Editors C.T.H. Baker, Department of Mathematics, University of Chester and University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK C. Brezinski, Laboratoire d’Analyse Nume¤rique et d’Optimisation, Universite¤ des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, UFR de Mathe¤matiques Pures et Applique¤es, F-59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France L. Brugnano, Dipartimento di Matematica‘‘U. Dini’’, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze,Viale Morgagni 67/A, 50134 Firenze, Italy Chr. Budd, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK A. Bultheel, Departement Computerwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium S.Ehrich, Zentrum Mathematik,Technische Universitt Mˇnchen,Boltzmannstrasse 3,D-85747 Garching bei Mˇnchen,Germany C.W. Gear, NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA M.H. Gutknecht, Seminar fˇr Angewandte Mathematik, Eidgen˛ssische Technische Hochschule, Rmistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zˇrich, Switzerland A. Hadjidimos, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University,West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA L.Gr. Ixaru, Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. Box M G-6, Magurele, Bucharest, Romania A. Kunoth, Institut fˇr Angewandte Mathematik, Universitt Bonn,Wegelerstrasse 6, D-53115 Bonn, Germany T. Lyche, Institute of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080, Blindern, 0316 Oslo 3, Norway P. Monk, Unidel Chair Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, 501 Ewing Hall, Newark M. Mori, Department of Mathematical Sciences,Tokyo Denki University, Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0394, Japan M.T. Nakao, Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan J.T. Oden, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas, Taylor Hall 2.400, Austin, TX 78712, USA N. Papamichael, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 537, Nicosia, Cyprus L. Reichel, Department of Mathematics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA M.N. Spijker, Afdeling Wiskunde en Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Postbus 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands M. Sugihara, Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan M. Suri, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA L.N.Trefethen, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK P. van Dooren, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universite¤ Catholique de Louvain, Ba“timent Euler, 4, avenue Georges Lemaitre, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium G.Vanden Berghe,VakgroepToegepaste Wiskunde en Informatica, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium B-9000 S.Vandewalle, Departement Computerwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium R.-H. Wang, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian116024, China R.S.C. Wong, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China J.-A.Yan, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100080, China Q.Ye, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027, USA X. Zou, Department of Applied Mathematics,The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7