 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor19891058 | 
| Country: | France | 
| Volume: | 23 | 
| Issue: | 3 | 
| Start Page Number: | 289 | 
| End Page Number: | 302 | 
| Publication Date: | Oct 1989 | 
| Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research | 
| Authors: | Billionnet Alain, Breteau Jean-Franois | 
First a variant of a well-known algorithm, the Levy algorithm, is described. Then a new algorithm for reducing the profile of a sparse matrix is proposed. These two algorithms and the commonly-used reverse Cuthill-McKee algorithm are tested and compared for their ability to reduce matrix profile.