The algorithme behind equilibrate?

I've succesfully been using the new MATLAB function "equilibrate" to improve the conditioning of some quite ill-conditioned problems. However, the MATLAB documentation does not give any reference to the actual method behind equilibrate. Since I work a lot on numerical methods it would be interesting if anyone has an idea of, or even better, a reference to the underlying method used by equilibrate?

Thank you in advance.

Peter

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

%   Reference:
%   I.S. Duff and J. Koster. "On Algorithms For Permuting Large Entries
%   to the Diagonal of a Sparse Matrix."
%   SIAM J. Matrix Anal. & Appl., 22(4), 973-996, 2001.  

[Peter Risby Andersen]

Thank you Walter.

The obvious was to look into the matlab function itself.. :)

Best,

Peter