Dear Dennis,

Attached please find a review, which Ann, myself, and others in Marketing/Sales 
see as insightful for possible modifications and polishing of your manuscript 
(MS), prior to copyediting.  Please let us know your thoughts on the key points 
made.... especially re:  comments about the lack of motivation, 'an overall 
picture,' algorithms, explanations about choosing the best solution given 
queries (for instance, some of this can be addressed by weaving your theme and 
mission more sharply and clearly through your preface, part overviews, chapter 
1, etc).

Note that the reviewer was informed that the key audiences are researchers and 
professionals, but saw opportunities for course use given your many examples 
and exercises, etc.  We will have well-developed back-cover copy describing 
your book, its key features, and its primary and potential markets.  You 
needn't modify the text in any extreme way for student audiences, but it's well 
worth considering the suggestions made here... perhaps you know some 'halfway' 
solutions to them that can be made readily and enhance the book's cross-market 
prospects (the overall goal).  

Also, we of course will have the MS thoroughly copyedited, so language/English, 
etc., will be handled on our end.  Ann agrees, however, that you should try to 
move your references to the ends of chapters.

Other than that, I believe you're in very good shape to finish things up.  
Remember that once we get the final-draft MS (incorporating this review... no 
other individual reviews are due), we'll send it for express copyediting, and 
you can be making slight tweaks to the content, for insertion into the 
final/final version when you're inputting copyediting corrections.

Thank you, Dennis, and looking forward to your basic thoughts on this review.  
Apologies for the brief delay... obtaining reviewers and getting prompt replies 
during the exam/holiday/intersession period can be understandably tricky.

Regards,

Wayne Wheeler
Associate Editor
Computing & Information Science
Springer 
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