CRPC-TR98762 May 1998 Title: Preconditioning Newton's Method Authors: Ali Bouaricha, Jorge J. More', and Zhijun Wu Submitted August 1998; Available as Argonne Preprint ANL/MCS-P715-0598 Abstract: The development of algorithms and software for the solution of large-scale optimization problems . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ali Bouaricha Jorge J. More' more@mcs.anl.gov Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Zhijun Wu