A digital companion to a 2003 thesis
This site makes Tanat Tonguthaisri’s Enhancing Academic Advisement with Case-Based Reasoning easier to read, navigate and cite. The thesis title page is dated August 2003. RMIT deposited the digitised item on 30 October 2026 under DOI 10.25439/rmt.34846194.
The title-first reading PDF
The Version 2 reading PDF has 143 reflowed pages. All 201 supplied source pages were compared individually with the reconstruction. Transcription corrections are documented separately from original source errors and unreadable regions. Its pagination differs from the source PDF; use the restored source-page edition or source reader for physical PDF page references.
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The source
The supplied PDF has 201 pages. The original file is provided unchanged at thesis-original.pdf. Its SHA-256 checksum is 090ac966bb7d8ddefc824accbb90fbac6585fce62576496ebf56619325d4ae3e.
Printed page numbering jumps from 134 to 136, between PDF pages 144 and 145. This may reflect a missing source page or a numbering error; the available evidence does not settle the cause. “Complete reader” means all pages supplied in this repository PDF, not a certification that the original bound thesis was scanned without omissions.
Page-by-page source comparison
All 201 supplied pages were reviewed individually. 6 pages contain bounded unreadable or source-clipped material, and 4 are binding or library pages. Original errors and the cause of the printed-page gap remain unresolved.
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Text and reading aids
The proofread reading edition includes corrections checked against the original page images. The separate source reader preserves raw OCR for comparison. Original source errors and illegible regions remain marked, and the thesis’s historical claims retain their 2003 context.
Chapter labels, search controls, citation exports and the homepage’s teaching explanations are 2026 additions. The six-case sandbox is invented. Its scores are deterministic teaching examples, not experimental results from the thesis, probabilities of success, or academic advice.
The reconstructed diagram
The author supplied an SVG to replace the redacted Figure 2-1. This 2026 reconstruction includes the CBR cycle and a Watson extension. It is shown with an editorial label because it does not establish the exact appearance of the original redacted illustration.
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Original citation inconsistencies
The original citation numbers and bibliography metadata are preserved. An internal comparison found unresolved author/number mismatches and other suspicious printed details. The dated editorial notes record them separately; they are not externally verified corrections. A source-transcribed bibliography is also available.
Citation and rights
Tonguthaisri, T. (2003). Enhancing Academic Advisement with Case-Based Reasoning [Master of Engineering thesis, RMIT University]. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.34846194
The repository marks the thesis All rights reserved. This companion does not assign a Creative Commons licence to the thesis or third-party illustrations. The DOI remains the stable scholarly reference. The 2026 companion does not imply RMIT approval or endorsement.
Discovery
The thesis landing page includes scholarly citation tags, an author-written abstract, a direct PDF link, canonical metadata and structured bibliographic data. A sitemap and crawlable HTML support discovery. These measures do not guarantee search inclusion, ranking or future citations. The complete thesis is available without a sign-in.
Google Scholar’s inclusion guidance explains the role of bibliographic metadata and accessible full text. Search terms such as case-based reasoning, academic advising, educational recommender systems and hybrid reasoning reflect the source’s subject matter; they are not claims of a newly validated system.
Design and accessibility
The visual treatment adapts the owner’s supplied navy, blue and neutral design tokens. No institutional emblem is used. Keyboard navigation, visible focus, reduced-motion support, responsive layouts and browser-local search are included.