Quality on the welfare services in caring, and the trend to minimize the economical and social-political costs that come with such practice, due to the population aging, are paramount nowadays, i.e., health care reform has become the leading policy issue in all latitudes. Indeed, the major thrust of all this research is the perception that escalating costs make the current structure and financi...

Most case-based reasoning systems have used a single "best" or "most similar" case as the basis for a solution. For many problems, however, there is no single exact solution. Rather, there is a range of acceptable answers. We use cases not only as a basis for a solution, but also to indicate the boundaries within which a solution can be found. We solve problems by choosing some point within tho...

A primary research stream that contributed to the birth of case-based reasoning (CBR) was AI and Law. Since law is largely about cases, it is a particularly interesting domain for CBR researchers. This article surveys some of the historically significant systems and developments in this field.

ECCBR 2008 is the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) following a series of successful European conferences and workshops. This four-day conference will be held at the University of Trier in Germany from 1–4 September 2008. The conference programme will include invited talks, oral and poster presentations as well as workshops (see separate calls) on both fundamental and applie...

Multi-case-base reasoning (MCBR) extends case-based reasoning to draw on multiple case bases that may address somewhat different tasks. In MCBR, an agent selectively supplements its own case-base as needed, by dispatching problems to external case-bases and using cross-case-base adaptation to adjust their solutions for inter-case-base differences. MCBR is often advocated as a means to facilitat...

A knowledge mediation system eases the transfer of knowledge between two communities of practice. We describe one such system, based upon case-based reasoning, which reuses cases representing previous instances of mediation between two different communities. The system’s specific purpose is to support management processes to plan the maintenance and operation of a utility distribution network, ...

In this paper we use the notion of argument schemes to analyse some leading approaches to case-based reasoning in Law. We identify a set of argument schemes that can express the argument provided by such systems and draw attention to some important differences between the various approaches.

"Impossibility, theorems" have recently appeared in the AI literature which have been interpreted as forbidding truth-functional uncertainty calculi. Such "logicist" calculi do in fact exist. For example, case-based reasoning principles entail a truth-functional probabilityagreeing scheme whose strengths and weaknesses are not so different from those of the usual belief representation methods. ...

The management of textual information is getting more and more attention within the case-based reasoning community. In this paper, we will address the question of how a case base can be obtained from a given textual description and how this representation scheme can be enriched by higher level concepts.