Approximation Theory, Spline Functions and Applications

Preface. Approximation by Functions of Nonclassical Form; E.W. Cheney. Wavelets- with Emphasis on Spline-Wavelets and Applications to Signal Analysis; C.K. Chui. Pade Approximation in One and More Variables; A. Cuyt. Rational Hermite Interpolation in One and More Variables; A. Cuyt. The Method of Alternating Orthogonal Projections; F. Deutsch. Selections for Metric Projections; F. Deutsch. Weighted Polynomials; M. v. Golitschek. Some Aspects of Radial Basis Function Approximation; W.A. Light. Using the Refinement Equation for the Construction of Pre-Wavelets VI: Shift Invariant Subspaces; C.A. Micchelli. A Tutorial on Multivariate Wavelet Decomposition; C.A. Micchelli. Error Estimates for Near-Minimax Approximations; G.M. Phillips. Different Metrics and Location Problems; E. Casini, P.L. Papini. On the Effectiveness of Some Inversion Methods for Noisy Fourier Series; L. De Michele, M. Di Natale, D. Roux. A Generalization of N-Widths; A.G. Aksoy. The Equivalence of the Usual and Quotient Topologies for CINFINITY(E) when EGBPsubGBPRn is Whitney p-Regular; L.P. Bos, P.D. Milman. Korovkin Theorems for Vector-Valued Continuous Functions; M. Campiti. On Modified Bojanic-Shisha Operators; A.S. Cavaretta, S.S. Guo. A Property of Zeros and Cotes Numbers of Hermite and Laguerre Orthogonal Polynomials; F. Costabile. Hermite-Fejer and Hermite Interpolation; G. Criscuolo, B. Della Vecchia, G. Mastroianni. New Results on Lagrange Interpolation; G. Criscuolo, G. Mastroianni. Ambiguous Loci in Best Approximation Theory; F.S. De Blasi, J. Myjak. A Theorem on Best Approximations in Topological Vector Spaces; E. De Pascale, G. Trombetta. On the Characterization of Totally Positive Matrices; M. Gasca, J.M. Pena. Iterative Methods for the General Order Complementarity Problem; G. Isac. Wavelets, Splines, and Divergence-Free Vector Functions; P-G. Lemarie-Rieusset. An Approach to Meromorphic Approximation in a Stein Manifold; C.H. Lutterodt. Approximating Fixed Points for Nonexpansive Maps in Hilbert Spaces; G. Marino. On Approximation and Interpolation of Convex Functions; M. Neamtu. Convergence of Approximating Fixed Point Sets for Multivalued Nonexpansive Mappings; P. Pietramala. A Subdivision Algorithm for Non-Uniform B-Splines; R. Qu, J.A. Gregory. Some Applications of an Approximation Theorem for Fixed Points of Multi-Valued Contractions; B. Ricceri. Geometrical Differentiation and High-Accuracy Curve Interpolation; R. Schaback. On Best Simultaneous Approximation in Normed Linear Spaces; V.M. Sehgal, S.P. Singh. Some Examples Concerning Projection Constants; B. Shekhtman. Subject Index.