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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 872956, 6 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/872956
Review Article

Constrained Parameters in Applications: Review of Issues and Approaches

Leonid Kopylev

Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20460, USA

Received 6 January 2012; Accepted 23 February 2012

Academic Editors: J. Chow and J. Crezee

Copyright © 2012 Leonid Kopylev. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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