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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 139198, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2010/139198 Research Article Direct Computation of Operational Matrices for Polynomial Bases ˜ ´ Osvaldo Guimaraes, Jose Roberto C. Piqueira, and Marcio Lobo Netto Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Avenida Prof. Luciano Gualberto, Travessa 3, ´ ˜ n. 158, 05508-900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil ˜ Correspondence should be addressed to Jose Roberto C. Piqueira, piqueira@lac.usp.br ´ Received 5 July 2010; Accepted 3 September 2010 Academic Editor: J. Rodellar Copyright q 2010 Osvaldo Guimaraes et al. 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. Several numerical methods for boundary value problems use integral and differential operational matrices, expressed in polynomial bases in a Hilbert space of functions. This work presents a sequence of matrix operations allowing a direct computation of operational matrices for polynomial bases, orthogonal or not, starting with any previously known reference matrix. Furthermore, it shows how to obtain the reference matrix for a chosen polynomial base. The results presented here can be applied not only for integration and differentiation, but also for any linear operation. 1. Introduction One of the main characteristics of the use of polynomial bases is t