Case-Based Reasoning Resources

Suggestions welcome

Applications

• List of Applications
  • Commercial CBR Applications (Ian Watson; a comprehensive list)
• Virtual Travel Agency (Humboldt University, Berlin)
• Wayland (University of Wales)
• Companies that Have Applied CBR Technology (New, Incomplete List)
  • 3Com
• Applied Research Projects
  • CaBaTA (Mario Lenz; A case-based travel agent)
    • Check In (Partner, nicer WWW environment)
    • Berliner Flugring (An additional application)
  • Questionnaire on Applications
  • FABEL (Building Design)
  • INRECA

Bibliographies

• CBR and Related Topics (Paolo Avesani)
• CBR Bibliography (CMU)
• Case-Based Reasoning References (Ilesh Dattani)
• Case-Based Reasoning: A Categorised Bibliography (Marir & Watson)
• CBR Bibliography (Stefan Wess)

Books

• Applying Case-Based Reasoning: Techniques for Enterprise Systems (Ian Watson)
• Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons, and Future Directions (David B. Leake, Editor)
  • MIT Press
• Case-Based Reasoning Technology: From Foundations to Applications (Eds: Mario Lenz, Briggitte Bartsch-Sporl, Hans-Dieter Burkhard & Stefan Wess)
• Developing Industrial Case-Based Reasoning Applications: The INRECA Methodology (Bergmann et al., May 1999)
• Inside Multi-Media Case Based Instruction (Roger C. Schank, 1998, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Issues and Applications of Case-Based Reasoning in Design (Eds.: Maher & Pu)
• Managing Computer Networks: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach (Lundy Lewis)
• Reasoning with Complex Cases (Friedrich Gebhardt, Angi Voß, Wolfgang Gräther, and Barbara Schmidt-Belz)
• Soft Computing in Case-Based Reasoning (Eds: Sankar K. Pal, T.S. Dillon, and D. S. Yeung; Springer-Verlag, October 2000)

Commercial

• Vendors and Service Providers (now outdated)
  1. Kaidara (Previously AcknoSoft)
     • KATE-CBR (among others)
  2. Armas Solutions (Makers of the AdvantageKBS Application Suite)
  3. Astea International
     • Case-1
  4. Atlantis
     • SpotLight
  5. Austin Information Systems (Makers of OSALAT, an Open-Source Link Analysis Tool that uses a case-based learning module)
  6. Brightware, Inc.
     • ART*-Enterprise
  7. CaseBank Technologies, Inc. (SpotLight)
  8. CECASE
     • Mem-1
  9. Cognitive Systems, Inc.
     • ReMind
  10. Continuum Software Inc.
      • They're marketing Marc Goodman's work on projective visualization
  11. empolis knowledge management GmbH (formally tec:inno)
      • empolis orenge
      • CBR-Works (formally S3-Case)
  12. Esteem Software, Inc.
      • ESTEEM
  13. The Haley Enterprise
      • Eclipse (includes The Easy Reasoner)
  14. iDetect Software (makers of MINDSuite)
  15. ImageInterpret (9/04: CEO: Horst Perner; focus is on CBR for image interpretation)
  16. Intelligent Applications Ltd (CBR Service Providers; Rob Milne, Managing Director)
  17. Interactive Multimedia Systems
      • Consultants for analyzing/building/maintaining case bases
  18. Inductive Solutions, Inc
      • CasePower (formally Induce-It)
  19. Inference Corporation
      • CBR Content Navigator (family of products)
      • CasePoint WebServer
        • Example application (Broderbund on-line Troubleshooting Service)
  20. Intelligent Applications Limited (Markets CSI's ReMind in Europe)
  21. ISoft
      • ReCall
      • ALICE d'ISoft
  22. Lockheed
      • Recon (not marketed)
  23. Mobile Intelligence Corporation (4/03: Conducts R&D on advanced intelligent systems, including CBR, and specializes on autonomous robotics and user interfaces)
  24. ServiceSoft
      • Knowledge Builder
      • Web Advisor
      • Product Demos
      • Example Application: Microprose Tech Support
  25. Simon Fraser University
      • Case Advisor Webserver
      • Case Advisor 2.1
  26. Software Artistry
      • Expert Advisor
  27. SHAI: Stottler-Henke Associates, Inc.
      • SHAI has worked on many CBR projects, often in contractual agreements with DoD agencies. They are the developers of ESTEEM.
  28. TreeTools
      • Helpdesk-3
• Webpresence Technology
  • The RapidReasoner
• Websell
  • Spinoff company from IMS, TECINNO et al. At the heart of WEBSELL is tecInno's CBR engine
• CBR Users
  • CBR @ 3Com (Chris Lafferty)
• More information on Commercial CBR Software
  • A Review of Industrial Case-Based Reasoning Tools (Klaus-Dieter Althoff, et al.)
  • CBR Shells/Development Environments (Prabhakar Bhogaraju)
  • CBR Development Tools: A Review (Ian Watson)
  • Contacts (U. Kaiserslautern)

Conference Announcements

Courses

• Canada
  • University of Calgary, Michael Richter
• Europe
  • UK
    • University of Salford (Ian Watson; Chapter 6 in an Intro to KB Systems)
• USA
  • Macalester College (Susan Fox)
  • Wright State University (Michael Cox)
• Three-Day Course Given by D. Leake & B. Faltings (1999)

Home Pages

• ML-sCBR Home Pages (David W. Aha)
• CBR Researchers (Ian Watson)

Information

• Adaptation
  • Learning Adaptation Rules from Cases (MSc Thesis, Kathleen Hanney)
• Aircraft Conflict Resolution
  • ISAC: A case-based reasoning system for aircraft conflict resolution (Andrea Bonzano, PhD dissertation, U. Dublin, April 1998)
• Concept Maps
  • CMap Tools (Alberto Cañas, U. of West Florida)
• Design
  • Case-Based Reasoning in Design (Maher et al.)
• Failure analysis
  • Failure Analysis by Case-Based Reasoning (Roberge et al.)
• Feature Weighting
  • Optimally-Weighted CBR (J. Bastow Wilson, October 2001)
• Fuzzy Logic
  • Bibliography on CBR Papers that Refer to Fuzzy Logic (Bjarne Hansen)
  • Weather Prediction Using Case-Based Reasoning and Fuzzy Set Theory (Bjarne Hansen's thesis)
  • Demonstration of a Fuzzy k-NN Aviation Prediction System
• General
  • AI-CBR (Ian Watson)
    • AI-CBR (European Mirror)
  • CBR's Around the World (Paolo Avesani)
  • Case-based reasoning on the Web (Ralph Bergmann & Wolfgang Wilke)
  • Case-Based Reasoning Resources (AAAI)
  • CBR-PEB ( paper)
    • Formally known as metaCBR, this assists in informing CBR developers on what CBR system to use for their task
  • KM-PEB (KM Product Experience Base; Fraunhofer Institute)
• CBR for Human Support Systems
  • References (Ilesh Dattani)
• Image Interpretation
  • ImageCreek: A Knowledge level approach to case-based image interpretation (Morten Grimnes, dissertation, 12/98)
• Information Retrieval
  • Bibliography on Applying ML to IR Tasks (Peter Turney, previously Rik Belew and Jude Shavlik)
  • CBR/IR 1993 Spring Symposium
• Law
  • A Guide to AI and Law Resources
• Planning
  • UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (a great source for recent info/pointers on planning systems)
• Reading Groups
  • CMU
• MLNET Technological Roadmap on Case-Based Reasoning (June 1999)
• Safety Systems
  • CBR and Data Mining in Safety Systems (Ilesh Dattani)

Journals

Mailing Lists

• AI-CBR (Ian Watson)
  • European Mirror
  • New Zealand Mirror
• European CBR Newsletter
• CBR-biomed.org (Isabelle Bichindaritz)
  • CBR-MED (University of Chicago; early 1990s)
    • Demos
    • FAQ

Medicine

• CBR in Medicine (Lothar Gierl & Rainer Schmidt; April 2005)
• CBR Medical Demos and Project Descriptions (U. Chicago)
• Publications
  • Advancements and Trends in Medical Case-Based Reasoning: An Overview of Systems and System Development (Markus Nilsson & Mikael Sollenborn, FLAIRS'04)
  • ImageCreek: A Knowledge level approach to case-based image interpretation (Morten Grimnes, dissertation, 12/98)
• Roentgen Demo (Radiation therapy)

Projects

• See Case-based reasoning on the WWW
• US Gov't CBR Efforts
  • NRL Intelligent Decision Aids Group
  • Reusable Experience with CBR for Automating Lessons Learned (RECALL, NASA)
  • NASA Intelligent Command and Control (ICC) Approach (Stoffel & Mclean)
• CARMA (John Hastings)

Research Groups and Projects

• Australia
  • University of Sydney
    • Case-Based Reasoning in Design (Maher et al.)
• Canada
  • Simon Fraser University
• France
  • INRIA (AID Research Group)
    • Broadway (Supporting User Navigation on the Internet)
    • CBR*Tools (An OO Software Library for CBR)
• Germany
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Kaiserslautern
    • CAPlan (Planning (derivational analogy), mechanical engineering)
    • CreditCBR (Credit Scoring)
    • IND-CBL (Comparison and theoretical foundation of induction and case-based learning)
    • MoCAS (Integration of case-based and model-based diagnosis)
    • OOReuse (INRECA; reuse of object-oriented software)
    • PARIS (Hierarchical planning, mechanical engineering)
    • PATDEX (Technical diagnosis)
  • HTWK Leipzig
  • GMD, St. Augustin

• Ireland
  • Trinity College Dublin
    • Deja Vu (Hierarchical CBR for design and planning)
    • EBMT (English/Deutshce machine translation)
    • PDS (AIM project, retrieval of partient discharge summaries in medical information systems)

• Italy
  • IRST (Povo TN)
    • Carica (CHARADE Application: Fire Campaign Ambience)
    • CHARADE (Interactive planning for environmental damages)

• Norway
  • University of Trondheim

• Poland
  • University of Economics at Wroclaw
    • REPRO (Jerzy Surma)
• Portugal
  • University of Coimbra
    • IM-RECIDE
    • CREATOR
    • ReBuilder
• Spain
  • IIIA (Bellaterra, Catalunya)
    • The ANALOG Project
    • Cooperative CBR
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    • Group for Artificial Intelligence Applications (GAIA) (Pedro A. González Calero and Belén Díaz Agudo)
  • Universidad de Salamanca (Head: J. Corchado)

• Switzerland
  • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    • CAAD-ETH and ICOM-EPFL (Building design and civil engineering)
    • IDIOM

• United Kingdom
  • University of Aberdeen, Scotland
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Salford
    • CBRefurb Project (case-based estimating)
    • NIRMANI (case-based estimating)
  • University of Wales
    • CASPIAN (freeware CBR system)
    • QPAC (process design reuse)

• United States
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    • CADET (Electomechanical design)
    • PRODIGY (Planning using derivational analogy)
  • Case Western Reserve University
    • CAse-Based Menu Planner (CAMP) (Cindy Marling, Grace Petot, & Leon Sterling)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Ashwin Ram's Projects (SINS, NICOLE, AQUA, etc)
    • Case-Based Design Aids
    • Design MUSE
  • Indiana University
  • Medical College of Wisconsin
    • ISIS (Decision support in medicine)
  • Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC)
    • Intelligent Decision Aids Group (Multiple projects)
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Chicago
    • CyberChef (Retrieval of recipes)
    • Mayor
    • Roentgen (radiation therapy)
  • University of Connecticut
    • Composer (Assembly sequence design, integration of constraint satisfaction for adaptation)
  • University of Illinois
    • BRIDGER (Acquisition of design knowledge)
  • University of Maryland
    • CaPER (Parallel case retrieval)
    • CHIRON (Planning income tax reductions)
  • University of Massachusetts
    • BankXX (Heuristic retrieval)
    • CABARET(Combines CBR w/ RBR)
    • CABARET/ID5 (Case selection)
    • CABOT
    • CBR-IR (Integrates CBR w/ IR, legal analysis)
    • FRANK (Report creation)
    • HYPO (Legal reasoning)
    • OFF-BROADWAY (Classification)
  • University of Pittsburgh (Faculty PI: Kevin D. Ashley)

Research Software (Updated Completely on 2 July 2004)

• CaseAdvisor 4 and CaseAdvisor Webserver (ISA Research)
• Caspian (U. Wales)
• CASUEL (U. Kaiserslautern)
• CBR Shell (AIAI, Stuart Aitken)
• CBR*Tools (INRIA; there is a description, but no apparent download)
• CBR-Works (U. Kaiserslautern): Apparently unavailable
• IUCBRF Java case-based reasoning framework (Indiana University)
• INRECA (This reaches cbr-web.org rather than INRECA)
• Code from Inside Case-Based Explanation and Inside Case-Based Reasoning
• NaCoDAE (Naval Research Laboratory): It has limited availability via a non-disclosure agreement. Contact david dot aha at nrl dot navy dot mil for more information)
• Protos (Porter, Bareiss, & Holte, AIj-90)
  • CL_Protos (U. Texas @ Austin)
  • EProtos: An extension for numeric values (Tel Aviv University) no longer appears to be available
• Selection Engine (an open-source Java CBR engine by Baylor Wetzel, 2001)
• Shyster: A Case-Based Legal Expert System (James Popple, 3/99)

Talks and Tutorials

• Agnar Aamodt & Enric Plaza
  • Case-based reasoning: Foundational issues, methodological variations, and system approaches (AI-Communications, 1994)
• Kevin Ashley
  • Progress in Text-Based Case-Based Reasoning (Keynote Talk, ICCBR99)
    • Bibliography
• Padraig Cunningham
  • ICCBR99 E-commerce Invited talk
• Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Stefan Wess, & Michel Manago
  • Reasoning with Cases - Theory and Practice (ECAI'94 Tutorial)
• Ilesh Dattani
  • CBR Tutorial at the 1996 British Computer Society Expert Systems Conference (in PowerPoint)
• David Leake
  • CBR: Issues, Methods, and Technology (ICCBR-95 Tutorial)
• Michael Richter
  • Knowledge Containers (ICCBR-95 Invited Talk)
• Evangelos Simoudis & Kevin Ashley
  • AAAI-96 Tutorial on CBR

Credits