http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/6659
Bidirectional Branch and Bound Minimum Singular Value Solver (V2)
and bound solver to find the largest minimum singular values among all submatrices. Optimization. "Branch and Bound", "Singular Value", Eighenvalue, "Subset Selection"
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17480