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I would like to thank to everyone that help during this research work, and that make it possible to accomplish.
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I would like to express my gratitude to my advisers Prof. Pedro António Amado Assunção, Prof. Sérgio Manuel Maciel de Faria, Doctor Erhan Ekmekcioglu and Prof. Ahmet Kondoz for their support, guidance and availability that were essential for the proper conduct of this research work.
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I would like to thank Funda\c{c}\~{a}o para a Ci\^{e}ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT), which provided
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the financial support for this PhD, under the PhD grant SFRH/BD/86368/2012.
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I am also grateful to the Instituto de Telecomunicações and to the Institute for Digital Technologies, which provided the computer resources and laboratory facilities with excellent conditions for my research work.
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%of Instituto de Telecomunicações~-~Leiria, Sylvain Marcelino, Lino Ferreira, Nelson Francisco, Luís Pinto, Luís Lucas, Anderson and Auridélia Moura, for the friendship and the wonderful work environment. I also want to express my gratitude for my graduation and non-graduation friends, for the moments outside the working environment, friendship and support, which were important along this research work.
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I would like to thank to all communities around the world that contribute for the development of many free and open-source tools used in this research work, namely the GNU/Linux, KDE software, Ubuntu and Gentoo communities. I also acknowledge the partnership of Luis Lucas in the Calyp software, and his contribution to the Remoterun scripts and the general computer management, which improved our developer capabilities and ease the experimental evaluations.
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Finally, a special thanks to my parents, António and Maria, and my sister Marta to whom I owe all that I have become. I also would like to express a special gratitude to Bianca Pires for her support and love during this journey.
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