Springer Book Series on Knowledge Systems

Series Editor

Professor Xindong Wu

Department of Computer Science

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont 05405

USA

Phone: +1-802-656-7839

Fax: +1-802-656-0696

Email: xwu@emba.uvm.edu

URL: http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/home.html

Series Editorial Board

Professor John A. Barnden

School of Computer Science

The University of Birmingham

Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

United Kingdom

Email: J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk

URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jab/

Professor Farokh B. Bastani

Department of Computer Science, M/S EC 31

The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX 75083-0688

USA

Email: bastani@utdallas.edu

URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/~bastani/

Professor John K. Debenham

Faculty of Information Technology

University of Technology, Sydney

PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007

Australia

Email: debenham@it.uts.edu.au

URL: http://www-staff.socs.uts.edu.au/~debenham/

Professor M. Tamer Ozsu

Department of Computer Science

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario

Canada N3L 2G1

Email: tozsu@db.uwaterloo.ca

URL: http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu/

Professor Jan Treur

Department of Artificial Intelligence

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Email: treur@cs.vu.nl

URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~treur/