Thanks

Without the collaboration or knowledge of some of the ones I enumerate below, in the order at which I had the pleasure to met personally (or be presented to some of their works), my research on the solution of sparse linear systems could have been a lot more tortuous, or revealed itself inproductive after all ...

• To my Mother and the Duarte's branch of my family ( for all my education )

• J. M. McCormick ( for the first book to literally "change" my life )

• Armando C. Filho ( for introducing me to the computational and matricial universe )

• Hewlett & Packard ( for providing the means of my first steps, on a HP-67 )

• Miguel Jorge ( for the captivating calculus lessons at Santo Inácio high school )

• Fabiano S. G. de Oliveira ( for being the first to "realize" my thoughts )

• Clovis C. Gonzaga ( for all the Example, friendship, support and supervising )

• Maurício Resende and Geraldo Veiga ( for the success of their implementations )

• N. Karmarkar ( for having provided the establishment of a hole new area of research )

• S. Pissanetsky ( for the second book to literally "change" my destiny )

• F. G. Gustavson ( for having developed the work that still motivates my research )

• Boris G. Gorenstin ( for the first questioning that led me to sparsity )

• Hermínio C. Pinto ( for the second questioning that led to my master thesis )

• Lilian Markenzon ( for a course that motivated significant advances on my work )

• Marielba Rojas ( for having opened me many New Horizons )

• Ayrton S. da Silva ( for being the First, Only, and Best of All ! )

• Delfim X. Martins and Hsingh ( for keeping lightened the same Passion for computing )

• Mario Veiga F. Pereira, Gerson Couto, Sérgio Granville, Paulo Alexandre, Nelson Martins, Marciano Morozowski, Joari, Sérgio Porto, Cordeiro, Ayrú Leal, Maria Cândida, Ricardo Diniz, Pedro di Novella, Silvio Binato and researchers from the former DPST dept. ( for all the support received at CEPEL )

• Nelson Maculan Filho, Adilson Elias Xavier, Afonso Celso del Nero Gomes, Nelson Ortegosa, João Lauro Dorneles Facó, Márcia Fampa, Antonio Oliveira ( for all the continued attention and support at COPPE / UFRJ )

• Maurício Nardone, Plácido Pinheiro, Paulo Ney de Souza, Carlos A. de Moura, Cláudio Luis Amorim, Fernanda, Augusto and Marco Antônio Raupp ( for all the attention and valuable support )

• Sandra, Ingrid, Miriam, Erivaldo and some other graduation colleagues ( for all the good moments )

• Amelia F. Semblano ( for the long friendship and continuous support )

• Fernando Messeder and family ( for the solid friendship established a long time ago )

• Rogério and Victor Passy and family ( for all the support and friendship )

• João B. Cabrera ( for the long friendship and assistance )

• Renato S. Silva and Ézio R. Araújo ( for sharing valuable bookmarks )

• Alf-Christian Achilles ( for the cool and respectable enterprise of establishing
  and maintaining The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies ! )

• LNCC ( for providing a nice place at the time of development of this work )

• CNPQ ( for providing the financial support for this research )

Information Base on Sparse Linear Systems and Matrix Computations

http://openlink.br.inter.net/sparse/main.html

Bibliographic References on Sparse Linear Systems

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Math/sparse.linear.systems.html
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/arantes97bibliography.html