How I track down a paper

Title:Algebraic Java classes for numerical optimization
Author(s):Schwab M, Schroeder J
Source:CONCURRENCY-PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE 10 (11-13): 1155-1164 SEP-NOV 1998
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Cited References:9
Times Cited: 1

Not a very popular or impactful paper. But check out who cited the work:
Moreira JE, Midkiff SP, Gupta M
From flops to megaflops:Java for technical computing

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS 22 (2):65-295 MAR 2000 Times Cited: 7
This is a nexus paper, cited 7 times by a variety of research in the field. You should look at all those papers.

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