\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.15} \chapter*{Colophon} In short ``Thanks every body''! Completing my PhD %degree is the most intellectually challenging %% FUCK OFF ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS WERE MORE DIFFICULT --- and actually useful unlike set theory activity of my first 52 years of my life! %% SET THEORY IS A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS % The best and worst moments of my doctoral journey have been shared with many people. % It has been a great privilege to spend several years visiting the Mathematics and Engineering departments of the University of Brighton, and its members will always remain dear to me. % % My first debt of gratitude must go to my supervisors, Dr. C Garret, %% TOP BLOKE Professor J. Howse and %% JAVALA LAT HUND Dr. A. Fish. %% JAVALA LAT HUND % They patiently provided the guidance, encouragement and advice necessary for me to proceed through the research, consolidation and write-up phases of the PhD program, to prepare and present three papers to conferences~\cite{syssafe2011,syssafe2012,Clark_fastzone} and to complete and submit this thesis. % I owe a debt of thanks to Dr J. flower, my MSc project supervisor, who explained that the chapter in my project documentation postulating a modular form of FMEA---which had %obvious potential for making the process %FMEA more efficient---was a concept worthy of being developed for a PhD and assisting me to present the chapter as %submit this as a conference paper~\cite{Clark200519}. % Further I thank her for encouraging me to apply for the PhD. %% PITY SHE DID NOT STAY ON AS MY PHD SUPERVISOR % I am deeply thankful to the directors of Energy~Technology~Control~Ltd not only for funding this course, but providing training and work experience in the field of safety critical engineering, and giving me Friday afternoons to pursue my studies. % At Energy~Technology~Control, the following people gave encouragement, and validated the concepts for modular FMEA that I was proposing, Martin~Thirsk, Colin~Talmay, Darren~Legge and Hazel~Anderson. % These Engineers, whose whole careers have been focused on the safety critical electronic/computing area, gave valuable time to look at and comment on my FMMD proposals. % Their comments gave me confidence that the methodology I was developing had %was not only an academic exercise but had potential practical applications and benefits. % Grandma Serife Gur and grandaunt Fadime Altinteril, who left us too soon. I wish to thank my parents, Jennifer and Richard Clark. % MY MUM for proof reading alot! I hope that this work makes you proud. \vspace{3cm} Typeset in \LaTeX \today. \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}