Social Networks and Its Uses in Collaborative Strategies

iii Acknowledgements I would like to thank the school of Public Policy for giving me the opportunity to study in it over the last calendar year " under the radar ". I would also like to thank for giving advice on how to shape this thesis. Both professors have advised me for the last couple of years, and it feels great to be able to see all the work I have done in such a nice order. I would also like to thank Cliff Lipscomb and Dave Schoeneck for their technical assistance on this paper. I would like to thank Marilou Mycko for taking a chance on me four years ago in the school of Electrical and Computing Engineering. If it were not for her kindness I doubt I would have ever gotten into grad school at Georgia Tech in the first place. I would like to thank Pat Rose and Bobby Wilson for helping me find an excellent GRA job in the ITTL lab at GTRI to help supplement my education with an excellent work and research experience. I would like to thank Tara Kilfoyle for changing my life and being the loveliest partner in crime a man could ever want. I am sure there will be many more changes to come once the baby comes.

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