Temporal Data Mining is the study of pattern searches in time-dependent data. Time-dependent data is generated in a natural way in many different application scenarios. This thesis is motivated by three applications from the automotive industry which produce time-dependent data in the form of interval sequences. Each interval of an interval sequence describes the occurrence of a certain event o...

When comparing the citation impact of nations, departments or other groups of researchers within individual fields, three approaches have been proposed: arithmetic means, geometric means, and percentage in the top X%. This article compares the precision of these statistics using 97 trillion experimentally simulated citation counts from 6875 sets of different parameters (although all having the ...