Bibliographic record for `Taylor:2008:CCT'

@Article{Taylor:2008:CCT,
  author =       "Alan Taylor and Desmond J. Higham",
  title =        "{CONTEST}: A Controllable Test Matrix Toolbox for {MATLAB}",
  journal =      "{ACM} Transactions on Mathematical Software",
  volume =       "35",
  number =       "4",
  accepted =     "8 June 2008",
  upcoming =     "true",
  abstract =     "Large, sparse networks that describe complex interactions are a common feature across a number of disciplines, giving 
                 rise to many challenging matrix computational tasks. Several random graph models have been proposed that capture key 
                 properties of real-life networks. These models provide realistic, parametrized matrices for testing linear system and 
                 eigenvalue solvers. CONTEST (CONtrollable TEST matrices) is a random network toolbox for MATLAB that implements nine 
                 models. The models produce unweighted directed or undirected graphs; that is, symmetric or unsymmetric matrices with 
                 elements equal to zero or one. They have one or more parameters that affect features such as sparsity and characteristic 
                 pathlength and all can be of arbitrary dimension. Utility functions are supplied for rewiring, adding extra shortcuts 
                 and subsampling, in order to create further classes of networks. Other utilities convert the adjacency matrices into 
                 real-valued coefficient matrices for naturally arising computational tasks that reduce to sparse linear system and 
                 eigenvalue problems.",
}