Advances in Case-Based Reasoning

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2008, held in Trier, Germany, in September 2008.

Invited Talks.- Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences: Why It Matters for the Health Sciences and for CBR.- An Analysis of Research Themes in the CBR Conference Literature.- Semantics and Experience in the Future Web.- Research Papers.- Recognizing the Enemy: Combining Reinforcement Learning with Strategy Selection Using Case-Based Reasoning.- Formal and Experimental Foundations of a New Rank Quality Measure.- Provenance, Trust, and Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Case-Based Web Search.- Visualizing and Evaluating Complexity of Textual Case Bases.- Learning Similarity Functions from Qualitative Feedback.- Conservative Adaptation in Metric Spaces.- Opportunistic Acquisition of Adaptation Knowledge and Cases - The IakA Approach.- Noticeably New: Case Reuse in Originality-Driven Tasks.- Experience-Based Design of Behaviors in Videogames.- Considerations for Real-Time Spatially-Aware Case-Based Reasoning: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer Imitation.- Retrieval Based on Self-explicative Memories.- Increasing Precision of Credible Case-Based Inference.- Supporting Case-Based Retrieval by Similarity Skylines: Basic Concepts and Extensions.- Using Case Provenance to Propagate Feedback to Cases and Adaptations.- Towards Case-Based Support for e-Science Workflow Generation by Mining Provenance.- Knowledge Planning and Learned Personalization for Web-Based Case Adaptation.- Cases, Predictions, and Accuracy Learning and Its Application to Effort Estimation.- Evaluation of Feature Subset Selection, Feature Weighting, and Prototype Selection for Biomedical Applications.- Case-Based Decision Support for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes on Insulin Pump Therapy.- Conversational Case-Based Reasoning in Self-healing and Recovery.- Situation Assessment for Plan Retrieval in Real-Time StrategyGames.- Optimization Algorithms to Find Most Similar Deductive Consequences (MSDC).- Understanding Dubious Future Problems.- Conversational Case-Based Recommendations Exploiting a Structured Case Model.- k-NN Aggregation with a Stacked Email Representation.- Case-Based Reasoning and the Statistical Challenges.- Evaluation Measures for TCBR Systems.- CBR for CBR: A Case-Based Template Recommender System for Building Case-Based Systems.- Forgetting Reinforced Cases.- iReMedI - Intelligent Retrieval from Medical Information.- Adaptation through Planning in Knowledge Intensive CBR.- Folk Arguments, Numerical Taxonomy and Case-Based Reasoning.- Real-Time Plan Adaptation for Case-Based Planning in Real-Time Strategy Games.- Horizontal Case Representation.- Application Papers.- Supporting Fraud Analysis in Mobile Telecommunications Using Case-Based Reasoning.- Predicting the Presence of Oil Slicks After an Oil Spill.- Case Based Interpretation of Soil Chromatograms.- Case-Based Troubleshooting in the Automotive Context: The SMMART Project.- Rapid Prototyping of CBR Applications with the Open Source Tool myCBR.