Acknowledgments
First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor Erica Melis for her support during myyears in the
ActiveMath
group. Regardless how much and what she had to do, Ericawas always available for discussion and support, and a never dwindling source of ideasand suggestions. I am also deeply indebted for her careful proofreading of this thesis.I also wish to thank J¨org Siekmann for letting me become a member of his researchgroups. His enthusiasm for Artificial Intelligence inspired my research from the verybeginning, and I am grateful that he accepted to review my thesis.My special thanks goes to Julita Vassileva for accepting to be the second referee of thisthesis. I hope my research does honor to her pioneer work in course generation.Research always takes place in a context. In Saarbr¨ucken, I had the privilege of beingthe member of two stimulating and encouraging research groups, first the Omega groupand then the
ActiveMath
group. Guys, I miss you already. Big thanks for proofreadingparts of my thesis goes to Martin Homik, George Goguadze, Paul Libbrecht and StefanWinterstein. Similar big thanks goes to Philip K¨arger and Tianxiang Lu for implementingseveral of my crazy ideas.Large parts of this thesis were written during the month I was part of the Libbrechtfamily at “Chez Jos´ephine” in Saarbr¨ucken. Merci `a Paul, Corinne, P´en´elope, Mercure,Eliott et Gaspard pour leurs encouragements.Above all, I want to thank my wife Kerstin. Thank you for your support and patienceduring the whole time of my thesis. Without you, I wouldn’t be standing here. Finally, Iam deeply grateful to my parents whose support made my studies of Computer Sciencepossible.iii
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