Unbound aggregates are the most common type of materials used for construction of the base layer of flexible pavements in Iran and worldwide. Due to the lack of binder, the performance of the compacted unbound aggregates is highly dependent on the properties of the gravel (particles remaining on sieve 4.75mm, sand (particles passing sieve 4.75mm and remaining on sieve 0....

In many domains Case-based Reasoning (CBR) has become a successful technique for knowledge-based systems. In medical domains, attempts to apply the complete CBR cycle are rather exceptional. Some systems have recently been developed, which on the one hand use only parts of the CBR method, mainly the retrieval, and on the other hand enrich the method by a generalisation step to fill the knowledg...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an approach to problem solving that emphasizes the role of prior experience during future problem solving (i.e., new problems are solved by reusing and if necessary adapting the solutions to similar problems that were solved in the past). It has enjoyed considerable success in a wide variety of problem solving tasks and domains. Following a brief overview of the tr...

Building a methodology for developing and maintaining CBR applications is an important goal currently addressed by CBR researchers and practitioners. Since CBR application development is a special kind of software development, building a CBR methodology can certainly be viewed as a software engineering research and development activity. This paper presents a perspective of how software process ...

In many knowledge-based systems the used knowledge is distributed among several knowledge sources. These knowledge sources may have dependencies between each other, which should be considered when maintaining these sources. An integrated maintenance approach for multiple Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems has to consider dependencies between the individual knowledge containers within one CBR sy...

This paper presents the concepts, ideas and techniques behind Case Based Reasoning (CBR) in relation to knowledge extraction techniques for health promotion. The ultimate goal is to develop a help-desk service for advice about preventive measures to be taken concerning concrete occupational injury hazards. CBR has been suggested to be a complimentary method to knowledge extraction in order to t...

We present an object-oriented framework in Java for building CBR systems that is an evolution of previous work on knowledge intensive CBR [8, 9]. JColibri is a software artifact that promotes software reuse for building CBR systems, integrating the application of well proven Software Engineering techniques with a knowledge level description that separates the problem solving method, that define...

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is widely used in the business and industrial forecasting. CBR is powerful tool in forecasting. It is suitable to complex and unstructured problem. Recently, CBR is applied many variety of business decision making, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) pre-planning control, bankrupt, Information System (IS) development control, prediction of customer churning. Th...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating anxiety disorder that may develop after an individual has experienced or witnessed a severe traumatic event. It has been shown that the 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) may be correlated with PTSD and that the TSPO ligand improved the behavioral deficits in a mouse model of PTSD. Midazolam, a ligand for TSPO and central benzodiazepine re...