The foundations of an area are concerned with the basic elements underlying the problems, methods, results and applications of the field. Sometimes this is easy to determine, e.g. when one is concerned with the foundations of logic. In CBR it is not as simple because CBR is in the intersection and the interest of different disciplines of a rather heterogeneous nature. Each discipline has its ow...

In this paper we present the results of the MIE/GMDS-2000 Workshop 'Case-Based Reasoning for Medical Knowledge-based Systems'. While in many domains Cased-Based Reasoning (CBR) has become a successful technique for knowledge-based systems, in the medical field attempts to apply the complete CBR cycle are rather exceptional. Some systems have recently been developed, which on the one hand use on...

An investigation is described into the application of quality function deployment (QFD) and case based reasoning (CBR) to software quality assessment. It is believed that the integration of CBR and QFD may be an effective means of supporting the development of quality software. The main aim in the research is to develop a CBR oriented software quality advisor to support the attainment of qualit...

Current Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) process models present CBR as a low maintenance AI-technology and do not take the processes that have to be enacted during system development and utilization into account. Since a CBR system can only be useful if it is integrated into an organizational structure and used by more than one user, processes for continuous knowledge acquisition, -utilization and -m...

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.