give a full contextual description for this work, but the focus was on giving
enough relevant information to support the papers. In particular the related
work the proximal support vector classifiers (chapter 3.3.7) was very hard to
get an overview of. Parts of the contextual work were taken from the included
papers, some partially from other papers by the author, and the rest were written
only for the thesis.
impact factor to evaluate research (Garfield [2003]), e.g. between papers in the
Science Citation Index. It has also been shown that online available papers are
more highly cited (Lawrence [2001]). Note that the number of citations may say
little or nothing about the quality of the cited paper, but it can potentially say
something about how many people who read or at least looked at the paper.
times by researchers at conferences and universities in 20 countries. The most
frequently cited papers are: Tveit [2001a] (partially used for chapter 3) with 33
citations, Tveit [2001c] with 15 citations, and Matskin and Tveit [2001]; Tveit
et al. [2003b] with 3 citations each.
e.g. Tveit [2001c] was a part of the: