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The number of moles of components in reaction systems can be decomposed into reaction variants (states that change with the progress of reactions) and reaction invariants (states that do not change with progress of reactions). The concept of reaction variants/invariants is used in modeling, control, and design applications. For computation of reaction variants, it has been shown that a subset of components needs to be measured and labeled as reference components. This idea ensures that measurement of a subset of components is sufficient in order to estimate the unmeasured components using reference components and known information on flow rates, inlet compositions, volume, and initial conditions. There are several feasible subsets of components which can be measured for computation of reaction variants and estimation of unmeasured components. In practice, measurements are corrupted with noise. Further, there is a cost associated with measurement of each component due to the nature of the instrument or pro...