This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2004, held in Fethiye, Turkey in September 2006. The book presents 31 revised full papers and 5 revised application papers together with 2 invited papers and 2 abstracts of invited talks. The coverage represents snapshot of current current issues in case-based reasoning, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to advanced applications in various fields.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2004, held in Fethiye, Turkey in September 2006.The 31 revised full papers and 5 revised application papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 2 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. All current issues in case-based reasoning, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to advanced applications in various fields are addressed, thus presenting a representative snapshot of current CBR research.
Invited TalksThe Fun Begins with Retrieval: Explanation and CBR Edwina L. Rissland 1Completeness Criteria for Retrieval in Recommender Systems David McSherry 9Is Consideration of Background Knowledge in Data Driven Solutions Possible at All? Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh 30Reality Meets Research Stefan Wess 31Research PapersMulti-agent Case-Based Reasoning for Cooperative Reinforcement Learners Thomas Gabel Martin Riedmiller 32Retrieving and Reusing Game Plays for Robot Soccer Raquel Ros Manuela Veloso Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Carles Sierra Josep Lluis Arcos 47Self-organising Hierarchical Retrieval in a Case-Agent System Ian Watson Jens Trotzky 62Cobras: Cooperative CBR System for Bibliographical Reference Recommendation Hager Karoui Rushed Kanawati Laure Petrucci 76A Knowledge-Light Approach to Regression Using Case-Based Reasoning Neil McDonnell Padraig Cunningham 91Case-Base Maintenance for CCBR-Based Process Evolution Barbara Weber Manfred Reichert Werner Wild 106Evaluating CBR Systems Using Different DataSources: A Case Study Mingyang Gu Agnar Aamodt 121Decision Diagrams: Fast and Flexible Support for Case Retrieval and Recommendation Ross Nicholson Derek Bridge Nic Wilson 136Case-Based Reasoning for Knowledge-Intensive Template Selection During Text Generation Raquel Hervas Pablo Gervas 151Rough Set Feature Selection Algorithms for Textual Case-Based Classification Kalyan Moy Gupta David W. Aha Philip G. Moore 166Experience Management with Case-Based Assistant Systems Mirjam Minor 182The Needs of the Many: A Case-Based Group Recommender System Kevin McCarthy Lorraine McGinty Barry Smyth Maria Salamo 196Contextualised Ambient Intelligence Through Case-Based Reasoning Anders Kofod-Petersen Agnar Aamodt 211Improving Annotation in the Semantic Web and Case Authoring in Textual CBR Juan A. Recio-Garcia Marco Antonio Gomez-Martin Belen Diaz-Agudo Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero 226Unsupervised Case Memory Organization: Analysing Computational Time and Soft Computing Capabilities Albert Fornells Herrera Elisabet Golobardes i Ribe David Vernet Bellet Guiomar Corral Torruella 241Further Experiments in Case-Based Collaborative Web Search Jill Freyne Barry Smyth 256Finding Similar Deductive Consequences - A New Search-Based Framework for Unified Reasoning from Cases and General Knowledge Ralph Bergmann Babak Mougouie 271Case-Based Sequential Ordering of Songs for Playlist Recommendation Claudio Baccigalupo Enric Plaza 286A Comparative Study of Catalogue-Based Classification Petra Perner 301Ontology-Driven Development of Conversational CBR Systems Hector Gomez-Gauchia Belen Diaz-Agudo Pedro Gonzalez-Calero 309Complexity Profiling for Informed Case-Base Editing Stewart Massie Susan Craw Nirmalie Wiratunga 325Unsupervised Feature Selection for Text Data Nirmalie Wiratunga Robert Lothian Stewart Massie 340Combining Case-Based and Similarity-Based Product Recommendation Armin Stahl 355On the Use of Selective Ensembles for Relevance Classification in Case-Based Web Search Maurice Coyle Barry Smyth 370What Evaluation Criteria Are Right for CCBR? Considering Rank Quality Steven Bogaerts David B. Leake 385Fast Case Retrieval Nets for Textual Data Sutanu Chakraborti Robert Lothian Nirmalie Wiratunga Amandine Orecchioni Stuart Watt 400Combining Multiple Similarity Metrics Using a Multicriteria Approach Luc Lamontagne Irene Abi-Zeid 415Case Factory - Maintaining Experience to Learn Klaus-Dieter Althoff Alexandre Hanft Martin Schaaf 429Retrieval over Conceptual Structures Pablo Beltran-Ferruz Belen Diaz-Agudo Oscar Lagerquist 443An Analysis on Transformational Analogy: General Framework and Complexity Vithal Kuchibatla Hector Munoz-Avila 458Discovering Knowledge About Key Sequences for Indexing Time Series Cases in Medical Applications Peter Funk Xiong Ning 474Application PapersCase-Based Reasoning for Autonomous Service Failure Diagnosis and Remediation in Software Systems Stefania Montani Cosimo Anglano 489Tracking Concept Drift at Feature Selection Stage in SpamHunting: An Anti-spam Instance-Based Reasoning System Jose Ramon Mendez Reboredo Florentino Fernandez-Riverola Eva Lorenzo Iglesias Fernando Diaz Gomez Juan Manuel Corchado 504Case-Based Support for Collaborative Business Ralph Bergmann Andrea Fressmann Kerstin Maximini Rainer Maximini Thomas Sauer 519A CBR-Based Approach for Supporting Consulting Agencies in Successfully Accompanying a Customer's Introduction of Knowledge Management Mark Hefke Andreas Abecker 534The PwC Connection Machine: An Adaptive Expertise Provider Mehmet H. Goker Cynthia Thompson Simo Arajarvi Kevin Hua 549Author Index 565