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Acknowledgements The author of this chapter is grateful for the contributions of various col-
leagues and students during his research and development work on soft sensors. Among them,
Professors Aldo Casali and Gianna Vallebuona of the Mining Engineering Department of the Uni-
versity of Chile have provided their knowledge and experience making possible a symbiosis be-
tween their field of mineral processing and the author's field of systems and control engineering.
Moreover, through the work on their engineering theses chaired by this author, a number of stu-
dents have also contributed to the R&D on soft sensors, most recently Roberto Paut and David
Miranda. Also to be thanked in this aspect are Chilean funding agencies, among them FONDEF,
FONDECYT, CORFO, and CODELCO special fund for R&D, in addition to the resources pro-
vided by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and of Mining Engineering of the University
of Chile.

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