Wide area networks offer access to an increasing number and variety of resources, such as documents, software, and network services. Yet, it is difficult to locate resources of interest, because of the scale and decentralized nature of the environment. We are interested in supporting a global confederation of loosely cooperating systems and users that share far more resources than can be comple...

Our approach to Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is to build integrated systems that combine case specific knowledge with models of general domain knowledge. In this paper we describe CBROnto, the CBR ontology we have developed, as a task/method ontology. CBROnto specifies a modelling framework to describe reusable CBR Problem Solving Methods based on the CBR tasks they solve and the knowledge requir...

Planning of modifications of existing wind farms by adding or replacing turbines makes new demands on wind farm modelling. Emphasis shifts from the calculation of the mean efficiency of the farm to that of individual turbines. Additionally, modelling has to deal with different turbine types and hub heights combined in one farm. Full scale measurements at two wind farms in Northern Germany provi...

When events such as severe weather or congestion interfere with the normal flow of air traffic, air traffic controllers may implement plays that reroute one or more traffic flows. Currently, plays are assessed and selected based on controllers’ experience using the National Playbook, a collection of plays that have worked in the past. This paper introduces PlayMaker, a CBR prototype that replic...

The following case series describes the treatment of neuropathic pain in post-surgical scars, using adipocytes and adipose-derived stem/progenitor cells (ASCs). Two cases are described in which patients underwent lipofilling to treat painful scars after cosmetic surgery. The primary indication for lipofilling was pain reduction and not improved cosmesis. Numeric rating scale (NRS) values were r...