Characteristic Functions, Scattering Functions and Transfer Functions : The Moshe Livsic Memorial Volume ; [During the period July 9 to July 13, 2007, a conference called "Characteristic functions and transfer functions in operator theory and system theory: a conference dedicated to Paul Fuhrmann on his 70th anniversary and to the memory of Moshe Livsic on his 90th anniversary" was held at the Department of Mathematics of BenGurion University of the Negev] (2010)