Thesis Acknowledgement

Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Prof. Ying Wu for the
continuous support of my Ph.D study and research, for his patience, motivation, enthusiasm,
and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this
thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my Ph.D study.

Besides my advisor, I would like to thank the rest of my thesis committee: Prof. Aggelos
K.Katsaggelos, Prof. Thrasyvoulos N.Pappas, and Dr. James Crenshaw, for their encouragement,
insightful comments, and hard questions.

My sincere thanks also goes to Dr. James Crenshaw, Dr. Senthil Periaswamy, and Dr. Qiong Liu,
for offering me the summer internship opportunities in their groups and leading me working on
diverse exciting projects.

I thank my fellow labmates in Northwestern Vision Group: Gang Hua, Ting Yu, Zhimin Fan,
Shengyang Dai, Junsong Yuan, Jiang Xu, Jialue Fan, and Neelabh Gupta, for the stimulating
discussions, for the sleepless nights we were working together before deadlines, and for all the
fun we have had in the last four years. Also I thank my friends in Tsinghua University: Chen Fan,
Wensheng Wang, Bo Qin, Xiwei Wang, Yonggang Zhao, Hua Chen, Junlin Li, and Rui Zhou. In
particular, I am grateful to Dr. Chen Fan for enlightening me the first glance of research.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents Siyu Yang and Xiaolan Ding,
for giving birth to me at the first place and supporting me spiritually throughout my life.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I thank all who in one way or another contributed in the completion of this thesis. First, I give
thanks to God for protection and ability to do work. I am so grateful to the Norwegian Quota
scholarship scheme and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo for making it possible
for me to study here. I give deep thanks to the Professors and lecturers at the Intercontextual
Theology programme, the librarians, and other workers of the faculty. My special and heartily
thanks to my supervisor, Professor Jone Salomonsen who encouraged and directed me. Her
challenges brought this work towards a completion. It is with her supervision that this work
came into existence. For any faults I take full responsibility. I am also deeply thankful to my
informants. Their names cannot be disclosed, but I want to acknowledge and appreciate their
help and transparency during my research. Their information have helped me complete this
thesis. I am also so thankful to my fellow students whose challenges and productive critics,
especially at the Isegran seminars, have provided new ideas to the work. Furthermore, I am
thankful to the ELCT-Morogoro Diocese in Tanzania for supporting me to pursue my studies
here in Oslo. I also thank my family who encouraged me and prayed for me throughout the
time of my research. This thesis is heartily dedicated to my mother who took the lead to heaven
before the completion of this work. May the Almighty God richly bless all of
youACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, praises and thanks to the God, the Almighty, for His
showers of blessings throughout my research work to complete the research successfully. I would like to
express my deep and sincere gratitude to my research supervisor, Dr. N. Krishnan M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D.,
SM IEEE, Professor and Head, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam
Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, for giving me the opportunity to do research and providing invaluable
guidance throughout this research. His dynamism, vision, sincerity and motivation have deeply inspired
me. He has taught me the methodology to carry out the research and to present the research works as
clearly as possible. It was a great privilege and honor to work and study under his guidance. I am
extremely grateful for what he has offered me. I would also like to thank him for his friendship,
empathy, and great sense of humor. I am extending my heartfelt thanks to his wife, family for their
acceptance and patience during the discussion I had with him on research work and thesis preparation. I
am extremely grateful to my parents for their love, prayers, caring and sacrifices for educating and
preparing me for my future. I am very much thankful to my wife and my daughters for their love,
understanding, prayers and continuing support to complete this research work. Also I express my thanks
to my sisters, brother, sister in law and brother in laws for their support and valuable prayers. My
Special thanks goes to my friend and brother in law Prof. A.Lenin Fred for the keen interest shown to
complete this thesis successfully. v I would like to say thanks to my friends and research colleagues, Prof.
S. S. Vinsley, Prof. R.K.Selvakumar, Prof. M.Karthekeyan, Prof. S.Ravi, Prof. C.Nelson Kenedy Babu, Prof.
S.Saudia, Prof.Dr. Justin Varghese and Prof.K.Krishnaveni for their constant encouragement. I express
my special thanks Mr.P.Kumar, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam
Sundaranar University, for his genuine support throughout this research work. I am extending my thanks
to the M.Tech. students of Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam
Sundranar University, Tirunelveli for their support during my research work. I also thank all the staff of
Research section of Manonmaniam Sundranar University, Tirunelveli for their kindness. I thank the
management of C.S.I Institute of Technology, Thovalai for their support to do this work. I thank
Prof.J.Jayakumari, Prof.S.Wilfred Franklin and Prof.A.Minola Davids for their genuine support in C.S.I.I.T
to complete this thesis successfully. Finally, my thanks go to all the people who have supported me to
complete the research work directly or indirectly.