*November 3 version* - another extremely minor edit: corrected tiny bibliography bug (in a ReArch 2009 proceedings paper) *November 2 version* - extremely minor edit: added "http://" to two links in bibliography section *November 1 version* (super official version filed with Technische Universität library, along with three printed copies, one of which goes to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, German National Library) - final layout touches: removed various widows and orphans by minor sentence level editing close to offending page breaks *October 28 version* (first semi-publically distributed version; sent out by email to various private academic contacts) - A4 paper size, fully built PDF version *Version 1.4* (another minor bug fix release) - one major redundancy resolved in section 4.2, plus end of chapter 7 minor editing *Version 1.3* (minor bug fix release) - this update corrects still more minor literals, and also features a few paragraph rewrites *Version 1.2* (subsequent to official submission of thesis to TU Berlin) - this update (1) corrects various literals (spelling and grammar mistakes, sentence rewrites for clarity, etc.); (2) reduces redundancy at the paragraph level and improves section transititions in a few places; (3) features a much improved acronyms management, and has a larger index of intersting asides; (4) resolves some minor content todos in a few endnotes; (5) features slight improvements of the illustrations used as Figures throughout the thesis ____ last edited: Wed 03 Nov 2010 03:19:37 PM CET