PhD Thesis Overview & Foreword

Note

In this document (wiki), I will present my PhD Dissertation. It’s an edited verion of the pdf file submitted to the PhD jury. Defense took place in Paris on 18th December 2018.

The original file can be found here

Reading tips

We encourage the reader to first consider the master table of content to have a global picture of the thesis. The introduction gives a second overview of the agenda of the thesis and opening questions.

First, before each part a grey text box hold a summary of the upcoming chapters with keywords and results and followed by a table of contents.

Second, the literature review in part 1 ending with the research questions chapter 3 will help the reader understanding the research gap and the origins of the anomaly.

Third, we invite to look at the research trajectory conducted by the PhD candidate, the research context, the anomaly detection method and the cases’ description. See part 2.

The anomalies presented in part 3 provide requirements for a new model in chapter 6 that is then presented and detailed in part 4. It allows us finally to provide foundations for legitimate researcher’s intervention, see part 5.

Note to the reader: You will probably notice that starting off with the methodology sections, we will make reference to a character simply named The Researcher or The PhD Candidate. This choice was made because the methodology was written first and he was quickly referred to as being part of the research management, as if he were an instrument. When reaching the model testing and associated interventions, you may feel that the narrator, We, gets closer to the The Researcher.

Thesis synopsis