“…However, these existing template generation methods (with the exception of grid-based ones) are restricted in scope to particular kinds of correlations and dependencies in the system parameters: independent parameters (Bailey, Panzer & Gu, 1988;Fialho, Pande & Nataraj, 1992;Hwang & Chen, 1995;Lan, 1994); a$ne parametric dependency (Bailey & Hui, 1989;Bartlett, 1990;Fu, 1990); multi-linear dependency (Bhattacharyya et al, 1995); and special nonlinear dependency (Barmish & Tempo, 1995). Further, in these methods there are inherent restrictions to transfer functions of particular forms, such as rational, tree-structured decomposable (Barmish, Ackermann & Hu, 1990;Ackermann & Sienel, 1991;Eszter & Pena, 1994); factored real form (Gutman, Baril & Neumann, 1994), and other forms (Fu, Dasgupta & Blondel, 1995;Isogai, Ohta & Haneda, 1993;Ohta, 1996;Ohta, Gong & Haneda, 1994).…”