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In this chapter, some of the background of the body of research upon which this book builds is outlined (Sect. 1.1), description (Sect. 1.2) and motivation (Sect. 1.3) of the topic of this book are explained, the major contributions of this book are summarized (Sect. 1.4), a brief overview of the contents of the later chapters is given (Sect. 1.5), and the overall message of the book is highlighted (Sect. 1.6).
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Taha, S.M.R. (2016). Introduction. In: Reversible Logic Synthesis Methodologies with Application to Quantum Computing. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23479-3_1
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