king@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM (James King) (04/12/88)
- - - Call for Participation Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning August 23, 1988, Radisson - St. Paul, Minnesota Sponsored by AAAI Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) involves the use of past cases to analyze and solve a new situation. In precedent- based CBR, for example, the objective is to construct an analysis and argument using past cases as supportive justifications. In other types of CBR, the objective is to construct a new solution (e.g., a plan) based on transformations of those already existing in case memory. Objective: The goal of this workshop is to bring together both active reasearchers in CBR as well as those with potential interest in using CBR in their own problem domains. Through overview lectures, paper presentations, panels, and informal discussions, participants will explore central issues and current results in CBR, discuss domains and problems where CBR might prove helpful, and establish new contacts within the CBR community. Areas for discussion include: - Representation of prior experiences and cases; - Methods for indexing and retrieval of cases; - Assessment of relevancy of past cases to a new case; - Transformation of solutions from past cases; - Comparison, explanation and justification using cases; - Using hypothetical cases to test implications of a new analysis or solution; - Use of cases as a knowledge acquisition strategy; - Generic architectures for CBR systems. Attendance: Limited to approximately 35 participants chosen by the program committee on the basis of submitted materials. Submission: Six copies of an abstract of approximately 1500 words and a short biographical sketch including a list of a few representative prior publications, particularly on CBR. For those new to CBR, who wish to attend, instead of an abstract submit a statement of interest in CBR, in particular, a description of the submitter's problem domain and its case-based aspects. Send abstracts, etc. to Program Chair by April 20, 1988. Acceptances will be sent by May 20, 1988. Final papers will be due by July 1. They will be bound and distributed at the workshop. Program Chair: Edwina L. Rissland, Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Program Committee: Kevin Ashley (UMASS), James A. King, (NCR Corporation), Janet Kolodner (Georgia Institute of Technology), Christopher Riesbeck (Yale), Robert Simpson (DARPA/ISTO) - - -