king@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM (James King) (04/08/88)
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)