JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS Volume 73, Number 1-2, 5 October 1996 CONTENTS A.L. Méhauté, L.L. Schumaker and L. Traversoni Multivariate scattered data fitting P. Alfeld, M. Neamtu and L.L. Schumaker Fitting scattered data on sphere-like surfaces using spherical splines P. Costantini and C. Manni 45 On a class of polynomial triangular macro-elements M.S. Floater and A. Iske Multistep scattered data interpolation using compactly supported radial basis functions 65 R. Franke and K. Salkauskas Localization of multivariate interpolation and smoothing methods 79 A.W. Habib, R.N. Goldman and T. Lyche A recursive algorithm for Hermite interpolation over a triangular grid 95 H.-P. Helfrich and D. Zwick A trust region algorithm for parametric curve and surface fitting 119 M.-J. Lai On C? quintic spline functions over triangulations of Powell-Sabin’s type 135 X. Liu and L.L. Schumaker Hybrid Bézier patches on sphere-like surfaces 157 M. Neamtu Homogeneous simplex splines 173 L.B. Montefusco Semi-orthogonal wavelet packet bases for parallel least-squares approximation 191 M. Herrmann, B. Mulansky and J.W. Schmiat Scattered data interpolation subject to piecewise quadratic range restrictions 209 M.C. Parra, M.C.L. de Silanes and J.J. Torrens Vertical fault detection from scattered data 225 C. Rabut Interpolation with radially symmetric thin plate splines 241 R. Schaback and Z. Wu Operators on radial functions 257 Author Index 271