Trustworthy Cloud Computing

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks a lot to many people who contributed to the creation of the book.

For the first turn, I would like to thank John Wiley & Sons as the greatest publishing company in the world for the wonderful opportunities to publish and disseminate my books. In particular, many thanks to Brett Kurzman and Alex Castro as my immediate Wiley contacts. Also, thanks a lot to many other Wiley people who helped to create and publish my previous two Wiley books. I consider Wiley as a template of the best publishing quality, working with people, understanding, help, and friendship.

I would like to thank my beloved wife and university colleague Adel Safonova a lot for the deep understanding and great interest to all my works, lots of advice, care, help, and support, and in particular for making excellent photos of St. Petersburg and suburbs I used in all my Wiley books.

I would like to memorialize one of the greatest IT persons I have ever known, Professor Lawrence Bernstein from Stevens University of Technology who passed away in 2012. All my books can be considered as devoted to his holy memory. I consider Larry to be one of my greatest teachers, tutors, supporters, and friends, the person who believed in me and my proposals when I first came to Wiley. Larry was the editor of the Wiley Quantitative Computing Series for years. Two of my previous Wiley books were published as parts of his series. The role of Professor Larry Bernstein in their publication, his great help, attention, ...