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Introduction
Contribution
User Rep.
User Pred.
C1
X
C2
X
X
C3
X
C4
X
X
C5
X
Table 1.2: Relation - Contributions and Thesis Topics
1.5
Publications
The research leading to this thesis has resulted in the following publications:
1 refereed journal paper (Matskin and Tveit [2001]), 1 refereed book chapter
(Matskin and Tveit [2003]), 5 refereed papers at international conferences (Tveit
[2002a]; Elster et al. [2003]; Tveit et al. [2003b]; Tveit and Hetland [2003]; Tveit
et al. [2003a]), 3 refereed papers at international workshops and symposia (Tveit
[2001c]; Petersen et al. [2002]; Tveit [2002b]), 1 paper at a local university con-
ference (Tveit [2001a]), and 7 technical reports (Tveit [2001b, 2002c]; Tveit and
Matskin [2002]; Tveit and Engum [2003]; Tveit [2003b,a,c]).
See figure 1.5 for a visual overview of the papers and their relations. Dotted
edges represents thematic relation, the other lines mean self-citation (i.e. stronger
thematic relation).
1.6
Thesis Outline
This thesis is "paper collection", i.e. having a contextual description for the
papers and the papers themselves. Its two first parts describes the context, main
results, evaluations and conclusions. The third part contains the papers, and
finally the appendices in the fourth part.
Chapter 2 describes the materials (software and hardware) and methods (quan-
titative and computer science) applied in the work leading to this thesis
Chapter 3 provides an overview of the Web Intelligence field, and its subtopics
related to this thesis. It also goes into some more detail about software
agents and classification in web intelligence
Chapter 4 describes the main results (summarized from the papers)
Chapter 5 presents the empirical evaluation of the results

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