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Acknowledgments xxxiii

Man Lam, James Lau, Deyi Li, George (Wenmin) Li, Jin Li, Ze-Nian Li, Nancy Liao,
Gang Liu, Junqiang Liu, Ling Liu, Alan (Yijun) Lu, Hongjun Lu, Tong Lu, Wei Lu,
Xuebin Lu, Wo-Shun Luk, Heikki Mannila, Runying Mao, Abhay Mehta, Gabor Melli,
Alberto Mendelzon, Tim Merrett, Harvey Miller, Drew Miners, Behzad Mortazavi-Asl,
Richard Muntz, Raymond T. Ng, Vicent Ng, Shojiro Nishio, Beng-Chin Ooi, Tamer
Ozsu, Jian Pei, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Helen Pinto, Fred Popowich, Amynmohamed
Rajan, Peter Scheuermann, Shashi Shekhar, Wei-Min Shen, Avi Silberschatz, Evangelos
Simoudis, Nebojsa Stefanovic, Yin Jenny Tam, Simon Tang, Zhaohui Tang, Dick Tsur,
Anthony K. H. Tung, Ke Wang, Wei Wang, Zhaoxia Wang, Tony Wind, Lara Winstone,
Ju Wu, Betty (Bin) Xia, Cindy M. Xin, Xiaowei Xu, Qiang Yang, Yiwen Yin, Clement Yu,
Jeffrey Yu, Philip S. Yu, Osmar R. Zaiane, Carlo Zaniolo, Shuhua Zhang, Zhong Zhang,
Yvonne Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, and Hua Zhu.
We are also grateful to Jean Hou, Helen Pinto, Lara Winstone, and Hua Zhu for their
help with some of the original figures in this book, and to Eugene Belchev for his careful
proofreading of each chapter.
We also wish to thank Diane Cerra, our Executive Editor at Morgan Kaufmann Pub-
lishers, for her enthusiasm, patience, and support during our writing of this book, as
well as Howard Severson, our Production Editor, and his staff for their conscientious
efforts regarding production. We are indebted to all of the reviewers for their invaluable
feedback. Finally, we thank our families for their wholehearted support throughout this
project.