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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The editors would like to thank the series editor of Advances in Management Information Systems
(AMIS), Dr. Vladimir Zwass, for inviting us in February 2005 to submit a proposal as editors of
a research-oriented volume on systems analysis and design. With his continuous support and
guidance, we have finally completed editing this work. We are grateful to the executive editor,
Harry Briggs, and associate editor, Elizabeth Granda, of M.E. Sharpe, Inc. for their assistance in
innumerable ways in preparing the manuscripts for publication. Many reviewers have contributed
by providing excellent and constructive comments to improve the quality and readability of these
submissions. Finally, we would like to express our sincere and deepest gratitude to the contributing
authors, who have spent a lot of time and effort in writing these wonderful chapters. Further, their
great patience in collaborating with us during this long editing process needs to be acknowledged.
Without their state-of-the-art research in the area of systems analysis and design, it would have
been impossible for us to complete this volume.

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