This is the original repository of the PhD thesis of Julian Valentin. The thesis and all corresponding parts (scripts, data, etc.) were written and managed in this repository.
Important: This repository here is only relevant if you're interested in data, scripts, or historical information about the writing process. If you just want to read or cite the thesis, please go to arXiv or to the valentjn/thesis-arxiv repository.
The thesis is titled B-Splines for Sparse Grids: Algorithms and Application to Higher-Dimensional Optimization. It was submitted to the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and it was successfully defended on April 2, 2019.
The thesis and the repository are provided here as is, without any further support or warranty. The thesis and the repository (except the cpp/gte/, cpp/sgpp/, and lib/ folders) are Copyright © 2019 Julian Valentin. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). The licenses of the libraries in the cpp/gte/, cpp/sgpp/, and lib/ folders can be found in the folder that contains the respective library.
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Cite the thesis as follows:
Julian Valentin: B-Splines for Sparse Grids: Algorithms and Application to Higher-Dimensional Optimization. PhD thesis, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2019. Available at
arXiv:1910.05379 [math.NA]. DOI:10.18419/opus-10504.
@phdthesis{Valentin2019,
author = {Valentin, Julian},
title = {B-Splines for Sparse Grids: Algorithms and Application to Higher-Dimensional Optimization},
institution = {University of Stuttgart, Germany},
year = {2019},
eprint = {1910.05379},
eprinttype = {arxiv},
eprintclass = {math.NA},
doi = {10.18419/opus-10504}
}
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