Acknowledgment

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Acknowledgment
To make this book a reality, many persons contributed with their best skills and efforts. First of all, we
would like to thank all the authors of chapter proposals, rejected chapters, and accepted chapters for
collaborating with us and for the enthusiasm that they put in this project. Without their contribution, this
book would not be now in your hands.
We would like also to acknowledge the superb work produced by our reviewers. All submitted full
chapters were reviewed by 2 or 3 reviewers, who generally were able to produce very impressive comments that were a fundamental source for the authors to greatly improve their chapters.
The reviewers for this book were: Christos Baloukas, Manuel Barata, João P. Barros, Frederic Boulanger, Lisane Brisolara, José C. Campos, João M. Cardoso, Luigi Carro, Lucía Costas, Arnaud Cuccuru,
J. Michael Duebner, João Canas Ferreira, Georg Frey, Lidia Fuentes, Aniruddha Gokhale, Jeff Gray,
Roman Gumzej, Hans Hansson, Zdeněk Hanzálek, Leandro Indrusiak, Daniel Jackson, Peter G. Larsen,
José Lastra, Luciano Lavagno, Johan Lilius, Ricardo J. Machado, Paulo Maciel, Grant Martin, Stephan
Merz, José Carlos Metrôlho, Miguel Monteiro, Chokri Mraidha, Horácio Neto, Arnaldo Oliveira, José N.
Oliveira, Ana Paiva, Hiren Patel, Carlos E. Pereira, Paul Pettersson, Luís M. Pinho, Elvinia Riccobene,
Juan J. Rodríguez-Andina, Ella Roubtsova, Françoise Simonot-Lion, Isabel Teixeira, Dragos Truscan,
Eugenio Villar, Valery Vyatkin, Flávio R. Wagner, Libor Waszniowski, Marek Wegrzyn, Fabian Wolf,
Justyna Zander-Nowicka, and Dieter Zöbel.
We are also in debt to Alex Yakovlev for kindly agreeing to prepare a foreword to the book.
We must also extend our gratitude to the persons at IGI Global for their active support, namely Heather
Probst in the first period and Christine Bufton during the last phases of the preparation of the book.
Luis Gomes and João M. Fernandes
Lisbon and Braga, Portugal