Abst rac t . The integration of classical case-based reasoning with other problem solving methods attracts increasing research interest in the broader area of information and decision support systems. This paper presents a framework where CBR and Argumentation Based Reasoning jointly aid agents to address various discourse instances in group decision making processes. The ability to comprehend ...

Knowledge management refers to the process of creating, sharing, and reusing of knowledge to improve and support the overall business strategy of an organization. Case-based reasoning is a general problem-solving or decision-making framework, which revolves around the processes of case retrieval, reuse, retention, and maintenance. Based on the obvious affinity of the two approaches, we are prop...

Mortgage credit granting has to be supported by task-oriented instruments (highly interactive support tools that enable cooperative problem solving) because of increasing competition and unfriendly economic circumstances. MOCCA (mortgage controlling and consulting assistant) provides instruments for decision support, customer consultancy, and management. Most of the underlying models in MOCCA a...

Decision-support systems that help solving problems in open and weak theory domains, i.e. hard problems, need improved methods to ground their models in real world situations. Models that attempt to capture domain knowledge in terms of, e.g. rules or deeper relational networks, tend either to become too abstract to be efficient, or too brittle to handle new problems. In our research we study ho...

This paper presents the experimental TRYSA2 distributed decision support system, that has been designed for the management of the urban motorway network around Barcelona. It shows how different technologies in the area of intelligent agents can be combined to solve this real-world decision support problem: on the one hand, a preestablished distribution of the loci of decision-making and the nat...

nowadays, the customer's credit assessment is one of most important challenges for managers in decision making. especially in the current situation which the number scam has increased and outstanding claims of business company is increasing. on the other hand decision making about customers and their credit is based on expert judgment and also the customer information is often uncertain, a...

The use of renewable energy sources is often suggested to be a good solution for climate change and the dependency to fossil fuel. Biogas utilization is a one of these promising options that can mitigate these problems since biogas is produced by the fermentation of waste, so is rich in methane and has the same characteristics as natural gas. Biogas has increasingly been noticed in different co...