The role of disabled people in CBR is increasingly being seen as of vital importance for the success of CBR. In actual fact participation of disabled people and self advocacy have become two of the principles of CBR as seen by the World Health Organisation and associated organszations behind the new CBR thinking. This paper deals with the position and role of disabled people themselves in CBR p...

In this article, we emphasise the need of open software engineering tools for CBR and we present our object-oriented framework named CBR*Tools. This framework facilitates the development of new CBR applications mainly by reusing past designs and implementations, and by providing open components that can be customised to meet application requirements.

In this paper we describe a domain independent architecture to help in the design of knowledge intensive CBR systems. It is based on the knowledge incorporation from a library of application-independent ontologies and the use of an ontology with the common CBR terminology that guides the case representation and allows the description of flexible, generic and homogeneous CBR processes based on c...

This commentary succinctly summarizes work in integrating case-based reasoning (CBR) with other reasoning modalities. Including CBR in mixed mode approaches promotes synergies and benefits beyond those achievable using CBR or other individual reasoning approaches alone. Numerous examples of hybrid systems, with pointers to significant references, are provided.

Case-based reasoning is a problem solving paradigm which emphasizes the reuse of stored cases to solve new similar problems [2]. The cases are composed by a problem description (in simple domains just a list at attribute, value pairs) and by the solution to the problem. CBR involves a number of techniques for indexing cases, retrieving them, possibly adapting the retrieved solution, and for man...

A surprisingly large number of research disciplines have contributed towards the development of knowledge on lazy problem solving which is characterized by its stor age of ground cases and its demand driven response to queries Case based reasoning CBR is an alternative increasingly popular approach for designing expert systems that implements this approach This paper lists pointers to some cont...

Good estimates of development effort play an important role in the successful management of larger software development projects. This paper compares the prediction accuracy of three CBR techniques to estimate the effort to develop Web hypermedia applications. Most comparative studies have used one CBR technique. We believe this may bias the results, as there are several CBR techniques that may...

Recent work within the CBR community has studied more systematic means of interrelating different types of domain knowledge, tasks, and methods for building and maintaining CBR systems. This paper reviews work from the knowledge acquisition community, targeted at methodologies and tools for analysis, modeling, and maintenance of knowledge components. It is argued that the knowledge level is the...