Michał Wódczak holds a PhD in Telecommunications from Poznań University of Technology, obtained under the umbrella of the European Union Sixth Framework Programme, as well as an Executive MBA from Aalto University School of Business, distinguished by the Triple Crown of AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS accreditations. Currently, he is with Samsung Electronics, while prior to that he was also with Telcordia Technologies, formerly known as Bellcore or Bell Communications Research, and with Ericsson, following the Telcordia merger. He served as an Editorial Board Member of IEEE ComSoc Technology News, as well as ran standardisation activities as Vice Chairman and Rapporteur of ETSI ISG AFI, the Industry Specification Group on Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet, established under the auspices of European Telecommunications Standards Institute. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications Society and, apart from this book, he has published two single-authored scientific books with Springer, co-authored and co-edited two industrial standardisation specifications with ETSI, and, overall, authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal, magazine, and conference papers, as well as book chapters. He has also contributed to over 40 scientific reports within European Union FP6 and FP7 projects IST-2003-507581 WINNER I, IST-4-027756 WINNER II, IST-2004-507325 NEWCOM, INFSO-ICT-215549 EFIPSANS, and SEC-242411 E-SPONDER. In addition, he holds Postgraduate Diplomas in Managerial Studies and Psychology of Management, both from Poznań School of Banking, as well as a BA in English Philology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and Interpreting, both from Adam Mickiewicz University. In this capacity, he also acted as an Executive Board Member of the Association of Polish Translators and Interpreters.