EWCBR-93 First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning Posters and Presentations : Volume 1

Abstract

The First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (EWCBR-93) is aimed at researchers and practitioners interested in the methodological progress and the extensions of the areas of application of Case-Based Reasoning. Case-Based Reasoning is a topic which becomes more and more important and has raised considerable interest recently. It supports knowledge acquisition and problem solving, and it is related to key words like machine learning, analogy, cognitive modeling, similarity, information retrieval among others. Although case-based reasoning has a well defined place within AI-related conferences, we felt that the topic deserves a workshop on its own also in Europe, as there have been such events in the US. The program committee accepted 21 submissions for presentation at the workshop and about 50 submissions for the poster sessions. This volume contains all these extended abstracts. The scientific program also includes four invited talks, system demonstrations as well as one panel discussion. An overview on Case-Based Reasoning as well as the presentation of commercial CBR systems is scheduled for the first day. An overview on Case-Based Reasoning is given by Agnar Aamodt (University of Trondheim, Norway) and Enric Plaza (CEAB-CSIC, Spain). Invited talks cover important aspects of Case-Based Reasoning: Janet L. Kolodner (Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.): Making Computers Creative - A Case-Based Approach. Katharina Morik (University of Dortmund, Germany): A Case for Inductive Learning. Mark T. Keane (Trinity College, Ireland): Analogical Asides on Case-Based Reasoning. Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.): Analogical/Case-Based Reasoning in General Problem Solving. We thank all who submitted their papers. We are most grateful to the members of the program committee for carrying out the difficult task of paper selection. It was the general feeling that we had an unusual responsibility because this is the first workshop on the topic in Europe and will most likely be a milestone for the future development of this area of research. The forthcoming proceedings of the workshop will contain the final versions of a selection of long papers. Michael M. Richter (program chair) Stefan Wess, Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Frank Maurer (organizing committee)