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Who says that only human beings are able to cook delicious meals? We aim to teach our computers the haute cuisine and therefore we need your creativity and ideas! Come to the European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR‘08) in Trier and participate in the Computer Cooking Contest (CCC)! Write your own software application for the live competition. Show that your program is more creative t...

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In this paper, a novel method for diagnosing lymphatic tissue tumors is presented. Microscopic specimen images are analyzed for extracting and characterizing malignant cells. A case-based reasoning approach is followed for classifying morphologic and densitometric cell features so as to provide a final diagnosis.

This paper is a thesis proposal and describes the idea of an integrated, explanation-aware maintenance approach for distributed case-based reasoning systems. We describe the related work and the foundations our own research will base on and the derived research goals for the dissertation. We describe in detail the integration of several existing approaches with our ideas to develop a methodolog...

本稿では,事例に基づく推論 (Case-Based Reasoning: CBR)の立場を取って,長期的な創造的問題 解決とデザイン活動に影響する記憶の問題について調査する.これは,詳細に記録された例・Alexander Graham Bellによる電話の発明に基づき,長期の創造的デザインにおいて繰り返し現れた,Bellのメカニ ズムの推論と理解について要約する.事例に基づくデザインに対し,メカニズムを理解することは,デザ インの制約と類推的評価の類推的予想の元であるとみなされる.しかし,既に理解されたデザインは,背 後ではアクティブであり,ある機会に保留されたデザインの問題を満たす.新しいメカニズムは,計算機 モデル ALEC で統合される.これは,事例に基づくデザインにおいて,ある創造的な振る舞いを説明す る. 1. ALECは Alexander G. Bellのニックネームだ...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of generalized cases into process-oriented case-based reasoning. We present the formal foundations for the generalization of workflow cases as well as a new algorithm for generalizing semantic workflows, guided by ontological knowledge of the domain. Further, the specialization of workflows w.r.t. a current query is addressed. An experimental evaluation d...

In this paper we present parts of our CookIIS system, a CBR-based application which provides and modifies cooking recipes. We participated at the 1 Computer Cooking Contest and won the menu challenge with CookIIS. After introducing the workflows used in this application, we show how the different tasks can be refined in order to improve the processes of the retrieval with custom components and ...

We have argued elsewhere that user goals should be taken into account when deciding what kind of explanation of its results a CBR system should give. In this paper, we propose the use of an Activity Theory based methodology for identifying different user goals and expectations towards explanations given by a system supporting a work process.