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Acknowledgments
I express my sincere gratitude to John Wyzalek, senior acquisitions
editor, for immensely helping us from the conceptualization to the
completion stage of this book. e reviewing and publishing teams
at CRC Press have been very prompt during this book project, for
which I am very thankful. I wholeheartedly acknowledge the fruitful
suggestions and pragmatic contributions of my coauthor, Anupama
Raman.
I thank my supervisors—Prof. Ponnammal Natarajan, Anna
University, Chennai; Prof. Priti Shankar (late), Computer Science
and Automation (CSA) Department, Indian Institute of Science
(IISc), Bangalore; Prof. Naohiro Ishii, Department of Intelligence
and Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology; and Prof.
Kazuo Iwama, ...