"Going over the introduction, the reader will get an almost full account, without proofs, of the results presented in the monograph... There are many questions for further research arising from this interesting book. Some of them are formulated by the authors, but many more may be born in the mind of the reader.” ---Zentralblatt

This monograph, in two parts, is an intensive and comprehensive study of the computational aspects of the moduli of smoothness and the Global Smoothness Preservation Property (GSPP).