`ISRN Signal ProcessingVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 625897, 5 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/625897`
Research Article

## On the Convergence of the Modified Riccati Equation

1Department of Electronics, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, 35100 Lamia, Greece
2Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Central Greece, 35100 Lamia, Greece

Received 5 March 2012; Accepted 26 April 2012

Academic Editors: C.-W. Kok and C.-M. Kuo

Copyright © 2012 Nicholas Assimakis and Maria Adam. 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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