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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
First and foremost, I would like to heartily thank my promotors Theo D’Hondt
and Michael Haupt for their advice and support. I am truly grateful to Theo
for the opportunity and freedom to pursue my research interests at his lab. I
am greatly indebted to Michael for sparking my interest in virtual machines
with his lectures and for his continuous support throughout the years.
I sincerely thank the members of my Ph.D. committee for the time and
effort they put into the evaluation of this work: David Ungar, Shigeru Chiba,
Tom Van Cutsem, Wolfgang De Meuter, and Jacques Tiberghien.
I am earnestly thankful to David Ungar and IBM Research for their collaboration
as part of the Renaissance project. His persistence in searching for the
fundamental roots of a problem greatly influenced my work and thinking.
To all of my colleagues of the Software Languages Lab, I am equally grateful.
Your feedback guided my investigations for this dissertation. Moreover, I
am truly indebted for your support from the very beginning. Your help was
essential for me to successfully write and defend my scholarship proposal.
Special thanks goes to the Parallel Programming Group for all of our insightful
debates. I would especially like to thank Charlotte Herzeel and Bruno De
Fraine for their feedback on the very first drafts of this dissertation.
My personal thanks go to Stijn Timbermont and Elisa González Boix for
“getting ze German started” at the lab and helping me to find my way in
Brussels. I also want to thank Andoni, Andy, Carlos, Christophe, Coen, Eline,
Engineer, Jorge, Lode, Nicolás, Wolf, et al. for their friendship and support.
Ganz besonders möchte ich mich auch bei meinen Eltern und Schwestern für ihre
bedingungslose Liebe, stetige Unterstützung und beständigen Rückhalt bedanken.
I want to thank my friends in Brussels from all over the world. Brussels is
a wonderful place to learn about cultural differences and I would not want to
miss this experience, nor the beach volleyball during rainy summers. Thanks!
Last but not least, I would like to thank Kimberly for her patience and
understanding and the time we have together.
This work is funded by a Ph.D. scholarship of IWT, for which I am grateful.
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