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Acknowledgments Wewould like to thank all the people who were directly and indirectly involved in supporting us in the accomplishment of this book, and to express our sincere gratitude to all of them. Firstly, we would like to acknowledge the System Communication and Machine Learning Research Laboratory for all their fundamental support. A colossal thanks to our youthful and en- ergetic research colleagues Ganesh Manza, Ganesh Janvale, Rakesh Deore, Santosh Gaikwad, Shashibala Rao, KavitaWaghmare, Sangramsing Kayte, Reena Chaudhary, and Arshiya Khan, who have always been full of life and willing to help in the preparation of technical and nontechnical preliminary materials related to the book. We would like to thank all the authors of the references cited in the book. We would like to express our thanks to the management of Elsevier, our publishers, for their guidance in various administrative matters related to the book. Lastly, we would like to thank all our family members for their support throughout the writing of the book. Priyanka A. Abhang Bharti W. Gawali Suresh C. Mehrotra ix Acknowledgments