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 Professor Sheng Chen, Dr Soon-Xin Ng, Dr Rob Maunder and Dr Lie-Liang Yang. We would also like to express our appreciation to Sohail Ahmed, Andreas Ahrens, Jos Akhtman, Osamah Alamri, Jon Blogh, Nicholas Bonello, Jan Brecht, Marco Breiling, Marco del Buono, Fasih Muhammad Butt, Sheng Chen, Peter Cherriman, Stanley Chia, Joseph Cheung, Byoung Jo Choi, Jin-Yi Chung, Thanh Nguyen Dang, Sheyam Lal Dhomeja, Dirk Didascalou, Lim Dongmin, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Stephan Ernst, Peter Fortune, 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, C. C. Lee, Chee Siong Lee, Kyungchun Lee, Tong-Hooi Liew, Xiao Lin, Wei Liu, Xiang Liu, Matthias M¨unster, Song Ni, M. A. Nofal, Noor Shamsiah Othman, Raja Ali Raja Riaz, Vincent Roger-Marchart, Redwan Salami, Clare Sommerville, Professor Raymond Steele, Tim Stevens, David Stewart, Shinya Sugiura, Shuang Tan, Ronal Tee, Jeff Torrance, Spyros Vlahoyiannatos, Jin Wang, Li Wang, William Webb, Chun-Yi Wei, Hua Wei, StefanWeiss, John Williams, Seung-Hwang Won, Jason ...
