Case-based reasoning research and development : 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2009, Seattle, WA, USA, July 20-23, 2009 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2009, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in July 2009. The 17 revised full papers and 17 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. Covering a wide range of CBR topics of interest both to practitioners and researchers, the papers are devoted to theoretical/methodological as well as to applicative aspects of current CBR analysis. Front Matter....Pages - We’re Wiser Together....Pages 1-5 Black Swans, Gray Cygnets and Other Rare Birds....Pages 6-13 Case Retrieval Reuse Net (CR2N): An Architecture for Reuse of Textual Solutions....Pages 14-28 Case-Based Reasoning in Transfer Learning....Pages 29-44 Toward Modeling and Teaching Legal Case-Based Adaptation with Expert Examples....Pages 45-59 Opportunistic Adaptation Knowledge Discovery....Pages 60-74 Improving Reinforcement Learning by Using Case Based Heuristics....Pages 75-89 Dimensions of Case-Based Reasoner Quality Management....Pages 90-104 Belief Merging-Based Case Combination....Pages 105-119 Maintenance by a Committee of Experts: The MACE Approach to Case-Base Maintenance....Pages 120-134 The Good, the Bad and the Incorrectly Classified: Profiling Cases for Case-Base Editing....Pages 135-149 An Active Approach to Automatic Case Generation....Pages 150-164 Four Heads Are Better than One: Combining Suggestions for Case Adaptation....Pages 165-179 Adaptation versus Retrieval Trade-Off Revisited: An Analysis of Boundary Conditions....Pages 180-194 Boosting CBR Agents with Genetic Algorithms....Pages 195-209 Using Meta-reasoning to Improve the Performance of Case-Based Planning....Pages 210-224 Multi-level Abstractions and Multi-dimensional Retrieval of Cases with Time Series Features....Pages 225-239 On Similarity Measures Based on a Refinement Lattice....Pages 240-255 An Overview of the Deterministic Dynamic Associative Memory (DDAM) Model for Case Representation and Retrieval....Pages 256-269 Robust Measures of Complexity in TCBR....Pages 270-284 S-Learning: A Model-Free, Case-Based Algorithm for Robot Learning and Control....Pages 285-297 Quality Enhancement Based on Reinforcement Learning and Feature Weighting for a Critiquing-Based Recommender....Pages 298-312 Abstraction in Knowledge-Rich Models for Case-Based Planning....Pages 313-327 A Scalable Noise Reduction Technique for Large Case-Based Systems....Pages 328-342 Conceptual Neighborhoods for Retrieval in Case-Based Reasoning....Pages 343-357 CBR Supports Decision Analysis with Uncertainty....Pages 358-373 Constraint-Based Case-Based Planning Using Weighted MAX-SAT....Pages 374-388 A Value Supplementation Method for Case Bases with Incomplete Information....Pages 389-402 Efficiently Implementing Episodic Memory....Pages 403-417 Integration of a Methodology for Cluster-Based Retrieval in jColibri....Pages 418-433 Case-Based Collective Inference for Maritime Object Classification....Pages 434-449 Case-Based Reasoning for Situation-Aware Ambient Intelligence: A Hospital Ward Evaluation Study....Pages 450-464 Spatial Event Prediction by Combining Value Function Approximation and Case-Based Reasoning....Pages 465-478 Case-Based Support for Forestry Decisions: How to See the Wood from the Trees....Pages 479-493 A Case-Based Perspective on Social Web Search....Pages 494-508 Determining Root Causes of Drilling Problems by Combining Cases and General Knowledge....Pages 509-523 Back Matter....Pages - The presentations and posters covered a wide range of CBR topics of interest both to researchers and practitioners including case retrieval and adaptation, similarity assessment, case base maintenance, knowledge management, recommender systems, multiagent systems, textual CBR, and applications to healthcare and computer games.