# 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.

## 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.