TABLE OF CONTENTS



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS....................................

ABSTRACT..............................................

CHAPTERS:

 1 INTRODUCTION..................................

 2 INDEXED EQUATIONS.............................

 2.1 Conventions Used in Describing Indexed
 Equations ...............................

 2.2 Function-Variable Incidence Matrices....

 2.3 Index Display Matrices..................

 2.4 Index Imbedding.........................

 2.5 Output Set Assignments .................

 2.6 Acceleration of Variables..............

 3 SOLUTION PROCEDURES FOR INDEX EQUATION SETS...

 3.1 Definitions.............................

 3.2 An Example Problem......................

 3.3 Output Sets and Decision Variables......

 3.4 Index Imbedding ........................

 3.5 Decoupling .............................


 3.6 Blocking Factors...............................

4 ALGORITHMS FOR DERIVING SOLUTION PROCEDURES FOR SETS
 OF INDEXED EQUATIONS ...............................

 4.1 Decoupling..................................

 4.2 Index Output Set Assignments ..................


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