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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to all their collaborators, especially to the following professors and researchers (in alphabetic order) who co‐authored some works that further led to the results included in this book: Calin Belta, Adrian Burlacu, Yushan Chen, José‐Manuel Colom, Xu Chu Ding, Narcis Ghita, Karl Iagnemma, Doru Panescu, Luis Parrilla, Octavian Pastravanu, Manuel Silva, Emanuele Vitolo, and Xu Wang. Many thanks to Professor MengChu Zhou for the invitation to write this book for the IEEE Press–Wiley Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering.

Furthermore, our thanks go to the institutions that offered support for performing the research on which this book is based: Aragón Institute on Engineering Research (I3A) and Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Iasi, Romania; Robonity: innovation driven startup, Spain; Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

The authors also acknowledge the financial support of the following grants from the last few years. In Spain: MINECO‐FEDER DPI2014‐57252‐R project, University of Zaragoza UZ2018‐TEC‐06 and JIUZ‐2018‐TEC‐10 projects and CEI Iberus Mobility Grants 2014 funded by the Ministry of Education of Spain within the Campus of Excellence International Program; in Romania: CNCS‐UEFISCDI project PN‐III‐P1‐1.1‐TE‐2016‐0737, CNCSIS‐UEFISCSU project PN‐IIRU‐PD‐333/2010; in China: NSFC Grant No. 6155011023.

We express our thanks to those who read the initial version of this book and formulated useful suggestions, namely the anonymous reviewers and our colleagues Eduardo Montijano and Sofia Hustiu. Last but not least, the authors are most grateful to their families for all their love, encouragement, and support.