Iteration: MIDAS-CASE - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I would like to thank to Esperanza, my thesis
supervisor. She introduced me to the research world and gave me the opportunity
to involve myself in it; she has showed me, with her support and ideas, the
successful path to the finishing of this PhD thesis; she has motivated me when I
was depressed and she has helped me to keep my feet in the ground when I was
too enthusiastic. All in all, I guess she knows me even better than myself. I guess
it is enough with saying that, after all these years, she has became my friend.
I would like to thank also the rest of members of the KYBELE Research
Group. Sometimes it was some of you, during some other periods, it was some
others of you. At the end, all of you have contributed decisively to the finishing of
this thesis. Specially those three girls ;-) that made this possible.
Thanks also to those two guys behind the scenes in the last stages: Emanuel
and Alex. Modelling, coding and transforming with you has been a pleasure. I will
miss the never-ending discussions and debates around the best way to eclipse any
light �.
During these years, the friends from the University have been another way
of escape: Diego, Ramón et al. you know how it pains and you know what it costs.
Thanks also for sharing being there.
I would like to remember the people from INRIA. Jean and his guys taught
me a lot about Model-Driven Engineering and the like. In addition, Fred taught me
some french and Marcos taught me that you can have real friends from abroad �.
Special thanks to my family: my mother, Amada, my brother, Berny, my
grandpa, Luis and my grandma, Ana. We are alone but together. You are always
there when the end seems too far away. You are the only thing in which I trust and
the only one that I know will never fail. Vane, you are becoming another one …
Of course, I could not forget my friends: we do not discuss about computer
science, software engineering and the like. You made me leave all the stuff behind
as soon as we met in El Desván or wherever. And I thank you a lot for this. You
are grandes guys.
All of you have been the witnessess of my complaints, my results and
achievementes, my failures and my frustations during all these years. For that and
for all the rest, thanks to all.
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