We, the Editors and Publishers of Optimization: A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research, are retracting the following article:
Fridoun Moradlou and Sattar Alizadeh, Strong Convergence Theorem by a New Iterative Method for Equilibrium Problems and Symmetric Generalized Hybrid Mappings, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02331934.2015.1032283
We are now aware of a substantially similar version of this article which was previously submitted to and published in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics by the same authors:
Sattar Alizadeh and Fridoun Moradlou, A Strong Convergence Theorem for Equilibrium Problems and Generalized Hybrid Mappings, Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, DOI: 10.1007/s00009-014-0462-6, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00009-014-0462-6.
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