Disputation Mikhail Fominykh - Department of Computer and ...

Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all the people in all the worlds. Special thanks to the advisors,
colleagues, friends, family, and to possible readers.
I would like to express my gratitude to Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland for her
support and guidance on all the stages of this research work. I am thankful to many
of my colleagues at the Department of Computer and Informational Science and at
the Program for Learning with ICT who helped me with my research.
I am thankful to Alf Inge Wang and Torbjørn Hallgren for their co-supervision, to
Monica Divitini, Reidar Conradi, and Guttorm Sindre for their wisdom and advice. I
would also like to thank Leif Martin Hokstad for his forethought and management.
It is a great pleasure to thank my co-supervisor Mikhail Morozov, Alexey Gerasimov,
and all other people at the Multimedia Systems Laboratory for their great projects
and innovative ideas that influenced this research work.
In addition, I would like to thank Vera Byzova for editing Part I of this thesis and
some of the research papers.
Finally, I wish to thank my friends and family who supported me during the
research work presented in this thesis.
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