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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2012, Article ID 201340, 24 pages doi:10.1155/2012/201340 Research Article The Asymptotic Expansion Method via Symbolic Computation Juan F. Navarro Departamento de Matematica Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante, Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, ´ 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain Correspondence should be addressed to Juan F. Navarro, jf.navarro@ua.es Received 26 October 2011; Revised 25 March 2012; Accepted 26 March 2012 Academic Editor: B. V. Rathish Kumar Copyright q 2012 Juan F. Navarro. 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. This paper describes an algorithm for implementing a perturbation method based on an asymptotic expansion of the solution to a second-order differential equation. We also introduce a new symbolic computation system which works with the so-called modified quasipolynomials, as well as an implementation of the algorithm on it. 1. Introduction The origin of symbolic manipulation derives from the sheer magnitude of the work involved in the building of perturbation theories, which made inevitable that scientific community became interested in the possibility of constructing those theories with the help of computers. Perturbation theories for differential equations containing a small parameter are quite old. The small perturbation theory originated by Sir Isaac Newton has been highly developed by many others, and an extension of this theory to the asymptotic expansion, consisting of a power series expansion in the small par