Advances in Information Storage Systems (AISS) series was initiated by ASME Press. New York with a first issue published in April 1991. ASME Press published a total of five volumes in 1991–93. In 1994, World Scientific Publishing Co. Private Limited took over the highly respected series and published volume number 6 in 1995. This volume number 7 is the second volume published by the World Scientific Publishing. The aim of the series remains to report the latest results from around the world in all the electromechanical, materials science, design, and manufacturing problems of information storage systems (magnetic and optical). All articles in each volume are of international archival quality refereed according to rigorous journal standards by the editors and their reviewers. The series will continue to be published with a frequency of one per year.One hundred and fifty five articles have been published in the first six volumes. This volume contains twenty seven articles that cover various aspects of information storage and processing industry organized into three parts: Micromechanical Characterization of Component Materials; Mechanics and Tribology for Data Storage Systems; Dynamics and Controls for Data Storage Systems.Contents:Micromechanical Characterization of Component MaterialsMechanics and Tribology for Data Storage SystemsDynamics and controls for Data Storage SystemsReadership: Applied physicists, materials scientists, mechanical and electrical & electronic engineers.Key Features:Integration of theoretical study of exact multiplicity results with numerical analysis and computationIncludes computing bifurcation diagramsPresents several computer-assisted proofs of uniqueness and exact multiplicity theoremsComputations using power series