 MDS by Distance Smoothing
 Version 0.4, July 2003
 Avoiding local minima in MDS with Minkowski distances

 Written by Patrick Groenen, Econometric Institute,
 Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 groenen@few.eur.nl



 This file comes with the distance smoothing program, which does
 distance smoothing for multidimensional scaling. This program
 does not have a lot of features, gives only text output and there
 is no other documentation than the original paper

   Groenen, P.J.F., Heiser W.J., & Meulman, J.J. (1999). Global
   optimization in least-squares multidimensional scaling by
   distance smoothing. Journal of Classification, 16, 225-254

 and the input file that comes along with it. The program seems to
 be quite stable but you will have to use it at your own risk. If
 you suspect bugs, please let me know.


