These are selected citation examples. The Version 2 source-issue register contains the complete page-by-page review findings.

Editorial citation notes — 30 October 2026

These notes compare the thesis text with its own bibliography. They do not change the original citations and do not verify publication metadata against external records.

Separate publisher checks for five selected bibliography entries are available as 2026 editorial research.

Suggested internal links

• PDF page 27: Wittgenstein’s observation (1953 Philosophical Investigations UK: Blackwell) → original bibliography [47]. Unique author, year and title match in original bibliography.
• PDF page 64: (Weber-Lee et al., 1996) → original bibliography [45]. Unique author/year match; title concerns selecting the best match.
• PDF page 90: (Kolodner, 1993) → original bibliography [23]. Unique surname/year match in original bibliography; printed bibliography given name Jane preserved.
• PDF page 92: (Smyth & McClave, 2001) → original bibliography [37]. Unique two-author/year match; title Similarity vs. Diversity.
• PDF page 92: (Branting, 2001) → original bibliography [5]. Unique sole-author/year match; title Acquiring Customer Preferences from Return-Set Selections.
• PDF page 93: (Burke, 2001) → original bibliography [7]. Unique author/year match; title Ranking Algorithms for Costly Similarity Measures.
• PDF page 99: (Stahl, 2002) → original bibliography [38]. Unique author/year match; title Defining Similarity Measures: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up.

Unresolved references

• PDF page 31: Short and Fukunaga [35]. Printed bibliography [35] names Shortliffe and the MYCIN book; no entry names Short and Fukunaga. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 31: Blanzieri and Ricci [5]. Printed bibliography [5] names Branting; no entry names Blanzieri and Ricci. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 31: Goker and Thompson [15]. Printed bibliography [15] names Göker and Roth-Berghofer; no Thompson entry appears. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 46: Kinley [23]. bibliography [23] names Kolodner. No Kinley entry; do not infer that one name should replace the other. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 71: Simon Fraser University in 1984 [8] / Automated Academic Advisor. bibliography [8] is Davis and King, 1977, overview of production systems; intended 1984 AAA source unresolved. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 71: Chan and Cochran [9] / Graduate Student Advisor. bibliography [9] is Department of Education applications/offers data. No Chan/Cochran entry. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 72: Frank, Duffield, and Swearingen [15] / Mentor-I. bibliography [15] is Göker/Roth-Berghofer help-desk support. No Frank/Duffield/Swearingen entry. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 47: (Richter, 1995). No matching Richter entry in the 48-entry bibliography. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 50: Hamilton & Gomes, National Semiconductor, in Watson 2003. No unambiguous author/title/year match in original bibliography; Watson 1997 and edited Watson material do not establish this source. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 89: Index Structures for Data Warehouses by Marcus Jurgens, LNCS 1859. No matching Jurgens/title entry in original bibliography. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 92: (INRECA,99). bibliography [4] names INRECA-Methodology but gives 1998; exact intended 99 source unresolved. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.
• PDF page 143: (Stolpmann & Wess,1999). No matching Stolpmann/Wess 1999 entry. A Wess coauthored 1998 book is not an exact match. Original preserved; no replacement proposed.

The original bibliography also contains suspicious metadata, including the 1975 ID 3 entry, “Jane” in the Kolodner entry, “Spring-Verlag”, and the page span “234.248”. These are printed in the source and are preserved. A separate bibliographic research pass would be needed to propose supported corrections.

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