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\bibitem{MV:GugPBv12}
S.~Gugercin, R.~V. Polyuga, C.~Beattie, and A.~van~der Schaft.
\newblock Structure-preserving tangential interpolation for model reduction of port-Hamiltonian systems.
\newblock {\em Automatica J. IFAC}, 48(9):1963--1974, 2012.

\bibitem{MV:MehS05}
V.~Mehrmann and T.~Stykel.
\newblock Balanced truncation model reduction for large-scale systems in descriptor form.
\newblock In P.~Benner, V.~Mehrmann, and D.~Sorensen, editors, {\em Dimension Reduction of Large-Scale Systems}, volume~45 of {\em Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. Eng.}, chapter~3, pages 89--116. Springer, Berlin, 2005.
 
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