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I would like to thank my advisors Prof. Leandros Tassiulas and Assistant Prof. Thanasis Korakis, for their guidance, motivation and provisioning of the funding required for my research, since my graduate thesis and during the course of my Ph.D. Their work has been a true inspiration and working together keeps me excited after all these years later. I would also like to express my thanks and appreciation to the members of my dissertation committee, Assistant Prof. Antonios Argyriou and Prof. Catherine Housti, for all their support and insight. I would also like to thank my lab-mates, and everyone who have aided my research growth the past six years. Besides their help, they made my staying in University of Thessaly much more pleasurable. Finally, I would like to dedicate this thesis to my parents, my sister and my wife for their love and support all these years. They mean the most to me and is their continuous support that made the accomplishment of this thesis possible. v Dedicated to my family vi