“…Previous studies about parameterized matrix polynomials were concerned by either determinant degree and Smith form computations [17,18,19] or perturbation theory for matrix pencils [7,21], quadratic matrix polynomials [13,22,23] and matrix functions [20,21,11,12]. But the approach that consists in searching for the "best" leading Smith form in a set of equivalent perturbed matrix polynomials seems to be new.…”