Author Index

Abba, Andrea - 298Adouko, Georges - 90Agron, Jason - 49Ahmad, Balal - 169Ahmadinia, Ali - 169Akoglu, Ali - 159 , 273Amano, Hideharu - 208 , 215Anderson, Erik - 104Andrews, David - 49Arslan, Tughrul - 169Athanas, Peter - 57Baker, Zachary - 238Balachandran, Arjun - 231Bao, Paul - 252Barnes, Robert - 281Benkrid, Khaled - 285Block, Gary - 277Bohner, Shawn - 57Bollman, Dorothy - 111Box, Brian - 76 , 129Caffrey, Michael - 139 , 153Cavin, Ralph - 321Charot, François - 90Cieslewski, Grzegorz - 146Conger, Chris - 122Dandass, Yoginder - 184Dasu, Aravind - 281Delgado-Frias, Jose - 311DeMara, Ronald - 269Döhre, Sven - 35Eddington, Chris - 79Ejnioui, Abdel - 252El-Ghazawi, Tarek - 191Erdogan, Ahmet - 169Ferrer, Edgar - 111French, Matthew - 104Galatsis, Kosmos - 321George, Alan - 122 , 231George, Alan D. - 146Geraci, Angelo - 298Gibelyou, Derrick - 153González Bravo, Angel Luis - 307Gonzalez, Angel Luis - 317 , 319Gonzalez, Ivan - 191Gordon-Ross, Ann - 122Graham, Paul - 139 , 153Guccione, Steven - 3Hansen, Esben Rosenlund - 97

Happe, Markus - 35Hariyama, Masanori - 201 , 309Hasegawa, Yohei - 215Hassoun, Joseph - 76 , 129Holland, Brian - 231Holland, Wesley - 184Hoseini, Mariam - 305Huang, Jian - 269Huang, Miaoqing - 191Huffmire, Ted - 334Hutchings, Brad - 57Idobata, Noriaki - 309Ishihara, Shota - 309Jacobs, Adam - 146Josiah, Jeff - 273Kameyama, Michitaka - 201 , 309Kang, Dong-In - 104Kastner, Ryan - 334Kato, Masaru - 215Kaufmann, Paul - 245Kelem, Steve - 76Kelemjoseph, Steve - 129Kenter, Tobias - 35Kobayashi, Fuminori - 222Kokkeler, Andre - 293Krone, Jim - 139Lala, Parag - 29Lee, Jooheung - 269 , 313Leeming, Gregory - 321Liu, Yidong - 313Lloyd, Scott - 259Lopez-Buedo, Sergio - 191Lorenz, Ulf - 35Lou, Yungling - 277Lubbers, Enno - 83Lübbers, Enno - 245Madsen, Jan - 97Manenti, Antonio - 298Manh Tuan, Vu - 208Mecha López, Hortensia - 307Mecha, Hortensia - 317 , 319Medidi, Sirisha - 311Meiche, Robert - 245Morgan, Keith - 139 , 153Morikawa, Yasuyuki - 222Mozos Muñoz, Daniel - 307Mozos, Daniel - 317 , 319Nagarajan, Karthik - 231Nakajima, Mao - 289Nelson, Brent - 57Pai, Arjun - 285Parris, Matthew - 269

Pavicic, Mark - 305Phillips, Chris - 76 , 129Pingree, Paula - 277Platzner, Marco - 35 , 83 , 245Plessl, Christian - 245Plunkett, Bob - 76 , 129Pottier, Bernard - 67Pratt, Brian - 153Quinn, Heather - 139Reardon, Casey - 146Román Navarro, Sara - 307Sanchez, Laura - 317Santhanam, Srinivasan - 313Schumacher, Tobias - 35 , 245Send, Andre - 35Septién del Castillo, Julio - 307Septien, Julio - 317 , 319Shih, Kuei-Tsung - 231Slatton, Clint - 231Smit, Gerard - 293Smith, Gavin - 346Snell, Quinn - 259Sreeramareddy, Adarsha - 273Suardi, Andrea - 298Tang, Wai-Chung - 116Trahan, Jerry - 15Tripp, Justin - 238Valero, Jose Antonio - 319Van Dyken, Jason - 311Vanderbauwhede, Wim - 176Venishetti, Sandeep - 159Waidyasooriya, Hasitha - 201Walters, Karel - 293Warkentin, Alexander - 35Wasson, Stephen - 76 , 129Watanabe, Minoru - 222 , 289Watson, John - 76Wigley, Grant - 346Wirthlin, Michael - 57 , 139 , 153Wolinski, Christophe - 90Wu, Kehuai - 97Wu, Yu-Liang - 116You, Chao - 305Zhang, Qiwei - 293Zhirnov, Victor - 321Zhou, Catherine L. - 116

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