\documentstyle[12pt]{article} \bibliographystyle{unsrt} \topskip 0mm \oddsidemargin -0mm \evensidemargin -0mm \headheight 3mm \headsep 0mm \footheight 0pt \footskip 0pt \textheight 230mm \textwidth 160mm \parindent=0pt \title{Improving Error Estimation in Linear System Solving} \author{Christian P. Ullrich\\ Institut f\"ur Informatik, Universit\"at Basel\\ Switzerland} \begin{document} \maketitle \thispagestyle{empty} %\vspace{1cm} Error estimations of linear system solutions are often unreliable, while verification algorithms always deliver guaranteed interval inclusions of the solution. Since latter methods are frequently considered inefficient and non applicable to real problems, the development of numerical libraries has been proposed in which the estimation is supplemented by efficient inclusion routines. In former papers the feasibility of this approach was shown using the libraries LINPACK, ITPACK and LAPACK. Verification routines capable of computing an inclusion merely using information delivered by the approximation methods were provided. Hence, the original library routines were not changed allowing the user to decide whether he wants to verify an approximation or not. A strong drawback of the implemented verification routines is the fact that in the iterative case interval-H-matrices are required and in the case of direct methods the routines work the more successfull, the better this property is fulfilled by the problem matrix. Therefore, new algorithms are presented which bound the error of the solution in a highly reliable way without similar restrictions. In a long series of tests runtime and accuracy results confirmed efficiency and reliability of the implementated algorithms. \end{document}