CBR with Commonsense Reasoning and Structure Mapping: An Application to Mediation

Starting the mediation with the initial ontology, through analogy by SME, we can consider a structural correspondence between concept pairs in these domains (e.g. orange–Sinai). Moreover, by this analogical mapping we can infer that, corresponding to pulp and peel in the base domain, there may exist additional concepts in the target domain that we can base a solution upon (e.g. military and civilian aspects of the Sinai territory), which incidentally corresponds to a simplistic view of how the dispute was successfully mediated by the US president Jimmy Carter in 1979. W e utilize a case structure based on ontologies reflecting the perceptions of the parties in dispute and introduce a CBR model that works by: (1) creating a middle-ground ontology of the views of all agents in dispute; (2) using this ontology for retrieval of cases through analogy with previous successful mediations in various domains; and (3) adapting a solution for the current case through analogical inference between the retrieved and current ontologies.