Case-Based Reasoning

Papers from the AAAI Workshop

David W. Aha, Program Chair

Technical Report WS-94-01 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Preface / iv
David Aha / 1

Towards a Better Understanding of Memory-Based Reasoning Systems / 41
John Rachlin, Simon Kasif, Steven Salzberg and David W. Aha

A Comparison of Model-Based and Incremental Case-Based Approaches to Electronic Fault Diagnosis / 48
Padraig Cunningham and Barry Smyth

Computational Trade-Offs in Experience-Based Reasoning / 55
Ashok K. Goel, Khaled S. Ali, and Andres Gomez de Silva Garza

Cases, Models, and Rules for Fault Management: An Evaluation / 62
Stamos T. Karamouzis and Stefan Feyock

Learning Prediction of Time Series: A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison of CBR with Some Other Approaches / 67
Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh

Section 4: Integrating Approaches: Empirical Evaluations

An Empirical Evaluation of Model-Based Case Matching and Adaptation / 72
L. Karl Branting and John D. Hastings

Decision-Theoretic Evaluation of Design Choices in a Case-Based Environment / 79
Qing Cheng and Costas Tsatsoulis

The Evaluation of Anapron: A Case Study in Evaluating a Case-Based System / 84
Andrew R. Golding and Paul S. Rosenbloom

Case-Based Anytime Learning / 90
Connie Loggia Ramsey and John J. Grefenstette

Section 5: Learning Feature Relevance: Empirical and Forman Analyses

Bootstrapping Memory-Based Learning with Genetic Algorithms / 96
John W. Sheppard and Steven L. Salzberg

Case-Based Reasoning for Multi-Step Problems and its Integration with Heuristic Search / 90
Christian Reiser and Hermann Kaindl

Feature Selection for Case-Based Classification of Cloud Types: An Empirical Comparison / 106
David W. Aha and Richard L. Bankert

Oblivious Decision Trees and Abstract Cases / 113
Pat Langley and Stephanie Sage

Generalizing the Claim Lattice with Applications for Learning by Local Clustering / 118
Robert McCartney and Dale E. Fish

An Optimal Weighting Criterion of Case Indexing for both Numeric and Symbolic Attributes / 123
Takao Mohri and Hidehiko Tanaka

Toward PAC-Learning of Weights from Qualitative Distance Information / 128
Ken Satoh and Seishi Okamoto

Section 6: Pilot Studies

Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Traffic Flow Management Problem Resolution / 133
Scott J. Bayles and Bikas K. Das

Clinical Trial and Evaluation of a Prototype Case-Based System for Planning Medical Imaging Work-up Strategies / 138
Charles E. Kahn, Jr.

Section 7: Retrieval Algorithms: Empirical Evaluations

An Evaluation of RECIDE/PSY -- An Advisor in the Domain of Psychology / 143
Carlos Bento, Penousal Machado, and Ernesto Costa

Iterative Design of Case Retrieval Systems / 150
Eric K. Jones and Aaron Roydhouse

Evaluating a Case-Based Planning System / 157
Brian Kettler and James Hendler

Evaluating Comparative Evaluation Models / 164
Kevin D. Ashley and Bruce M. McLaren

Evaluating BankXX: Heuristic Harvesting of Information for Case-Based Argument / 172
Edwina L. Rissland, David B. Skalak, and M. Timur Friedman

Section 8: Similarity and Adaptation

Towards Formalizations in Case-Based Reasoning for Synthesis / 177
Katy Borner

Geometric Similarity Metrics for Case-Based Reasoning / 182
Karen Zita Haigh and Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

Author Index / 188

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