Acknowledgements
We are indebted to our many colleagues who have enhanced our understanding of the subject. These colleagues and valued friends, too numerous to be mentioned individually, have influenced our views concerning the subject of the book. We thank them for the enlightenment gained from our collaborations on various projects, papers and books. We are particularly grateful to our academic colleagues Prof. Sheng Chen and Dr Soon-Xin Ng. We would also like to express our appreciation to Osamah Alamri, Dr Sohail Ahmed, Andreas Ahrens, Jos Akhtman, Jan Brecht, Jon Blogh, Nicholas Bonello, Marco Breiling, Marco del Buono, Peter Cherriman, Stanley Chia, Byoung Jo Choi, Joseph Cheung, Jin-Yi Chung, Peter Fortune, Thanh Nguyen Dang, Sheyam Lal Dhomeja, Lim Dongmin, Dirk Didascalou, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Stephan Ernst, Eddie Green, David Greenwood, Chen Hong, Hee Thong How, Bin Hu, Ming Jiang, Thomas Keller, Lingkun Kong, Choo Leng Koh, Ee Lin Kuan, W. H. Lam, Wei Liu, Kyungchun Lee, Xiang Liu, Fasih Muhammad Butt, Matthias Münster, Song Ni, C. C. Lee, M. A. Nofal, Xiao Lin, Chee Siong Lee, Tong-Hooi Liew, Noor Shamsiah Othman, Raja Ali Raja Riaz, Vincent Roger-Marchart, Redwan Salami, Prof. Raymond Steele, Shinya Sugiura, David Stewart, Clare Sommerville, Tim Stevens, Shuang Tan, Ronal Tee, Jeff Torrance, Spyros Vlahoyiannatos, Jin Wang, Li Wang, William Webb, Chun-Yi Wei, Hua Wei, Stefan Weiss, John Williams, Seung-Hwang Won, Jason Woodard, Choong Hin Wong, Henry Wong, James Wong, ...
