Chapter 11 Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank my sponsors at Alcatel Australia, especially Wolf Getto and Michael Harris for their advice and also access to information. Also my supervisors Dr. Bob Radzyner and Profesor Aruna Seneviratne and the Research Partners Project. Thanks are also due to Professor Compton who helped greatly with the Ripple Down rules, and also Phil Preston and Hendra Suryanto for talking things through with me. I have to thank Tom Millett for all the help he gave with the computer. My tutor Pipat Sookavatana for helping me with programming. Thanks also go to my family and Peter for putting up with me over the year.