Methodological framework, analysis, development and creation of design support environments of adaptive systems
Authors: Βλαχογιάννης Ευάγγελος 
Published: January 2022

This thesis is the outcome of the research work taken place at the University of the Aegean, in the Department of Product & Systems Design Engineering located in Syros Island. I really feel lucky that I had the opportunity to work in the corpus of this academic environment that happened to be located at the place of my birth and residence. Thus, I feel the responsibility to thank the people who dreamed and realized this department both personally but also as a resident of Syros. It was an honor for me to be part of it and I really feel it is an honor for my place that it was given the opportunity to host such a cultural source. Here I will try to find some words to thank some people for both realizing such a dream and also providing me the opportunity to work with them.I am proud to say that Professor Ioannis Darzentas, a pioneer of such a dream, has been my supervisor. It was a privilege, a unique opportunity and experience for me to work near him. It is amazing to think how such a personality has influenced me, not only in the scientific domain but also in my everyday life. He has been my guide towards to the philosophy of both my science and my life. The second person that I would like to thank is the Associate Professor Thomas Spyrou who was also one of the pioneers to the above mentioned dream. I can safely say that he was the one that convinced me to follow a research career and opened my mind by introducing me to human centered design principles. During all these years he was always available for helping me with any kind of problem and always had the way to make me find an appropriate solution.Dr. Carlos A. Velasco has been the third member of my advisor committee. I would firstly like to thank him for his interest to be in such committee. I have firstly met him under the umbrella of a European project and since then it was always an honor for me to work with him. He has been my guide mainly in technological issues.Even if they had not been in my advisory committee, I was always feeling some people from our research team as my atypical mentors. Jenny S. Darzentas had always the patience to hear me for any kind of problem and always encourage me. I would also like to thank her for both her scientific advices and her tireless editing of my poor English texts. Then, I would like to give specials thanks to my friend and colleague Argyris Arnellos. Argyris was the one that initiated me to the extraordinary world of systems thinking though every days discussions. I have spent countless moments with him having fun and working. Another person that has really helped me is Panayiotis Koutsabasis. Panayiotis was the one who introduced me to the research work of projects and was always a person I could rely on.Further, I would really like to thank my friend and colleague Nikos Viorres with whom I have spent days and nights working on projects. I really feel very lucky I had such cooperative and problem solving colleague and humorist friend and I cannot wait the time I will be working with him again. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues Modestos Stavrakis and Sofia Kiratzi for their support, cooperation and friendly advices. There are even more persons that supported me either directly or directly through every day discussions. I would like to say thanks you to Dimitris Lekkas and Spiros Vosinakis and generally to all people from my university that supported me during these years. I would also like to thank people outside my university that through research projects has influenced my research. I would like to give special thanks to Professor Gerhard Weber for spending his valuable time discussing with me and giving me early feedback. I would also like to thank the European Community for the financial support through Heraclitus scholarship. Finally, I want to thank Manolis and Flavianos for their heartily support and the adorable little Manos who offered me important relaxing moments.Nothing would have been possible for me without the support of my family. I would like to thank my parents Georgios and Katerina for their love, their care, their psychological and even for their financial support for offering me the potentials for accomplishing my studies and this research. I would like to thank them and my lovely brother Georgios for their patience and permissiveness all these years.Finally, I would like to address my very special thanksgiving and my deep most appreciation to my adorable fellow in life, Maria, for her support and patience. I want to heartily thank her for offering me so ungrudgingly her interminable support during a critical period of her life and career.