CALL FOR PAPERS

9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2008
1-4 September 2008, Trier (Germany)

http://2008.eccbr.org/


ECCBR 2008 is the 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
(CBR) following a series of successful European conferences and
workshops. This four-day conference will be held at the University of
Trier in Germany. The conference programme will include invited
talks, oral and poster presentations as well as workshops (see
separate calls) on both fundamental and applied research in CBR.
Additionally, the Industry Day will focus on industrial-strength
technology and industrial applications of CBR. A new element of the
ECCBR programme is the Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) intended as a
CBR system competition (see separate call) demonstrating the
application of case retrieval, adaptation, and combination methods
for cooking recipes.

Submission Topics
The ECCBR 2008 Program Committee invites submissions of original
research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based
Reasoning, such as:
- Representation, modelling, acquisition, adaptation, maintenance and
visualization of cases, similarity measures, ontologies, and other
knowledge
relevant for CBR
- Methods and tools for retrieval, reuse, revision and retention in
CBR
- Theoretical foundations of CBR
- Human Computer Interaction: CBR user interfaces, conversational CBR,
personalization user modelling and context, explanation
- Distributed CBR including agent architectures, service-oriented
architectures
or peer-to-peer networks for or involving CBR
- Integration of CBR with other methods, such as: rule-based
reasoning,
ontological reasoning, model-based reasoning, constraint
satisfaction problem
solving and optimisation, information retrieval, machine learning,
natural language processing, etc.
- CBR systems for specific tasks such as: planning, scheduling,
design,
workflow management and process enactment, diagnosis, decision
support, classification
- Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, creative reasoning, and
argumentation approaches based on or related to CBR
- Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models,
components, and systems
- Methodologies and tools to support the development, operation, and
maintenance of CBR applications
- Applications of CBR, for example in customer support, electronic
commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, legal reasoning,
education,
manufacturing, process control, signal processing, robotics,
ambient intelligence
- CBR-related areas such as: knowledge and experience management,
corporate memories, decision support, information retrieval,
instance-based
learning, software reuse and engineering redesign

In addition to those general aspects, ECCBR 2008 will put a
particular focus on two special areas with relevance to CBR. We call
for conference submissions as well as workshops related to the
following areas:

The Role of CBR in the Future Internet (Area Chair: Enric Plaza)
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With the Web 2.0 and 3.0 and particularly with the emergence of
social networks and social software, there is a new opportunity for
CBR to support the sharing and reuse of experience from/for
communities of people.
Related to this area, the following topics are relevant:
- Acquisition, representation and processing of personal experience,
opinions, and practical knowledge
- Social tagging and folksonomies as representations for CBR
- Natural language processing for case extraction from text
- Reuse of experience in Wikis, Blogs, RSS-feeds and all kinds of
multi-media formats
- Emergent semantics from usage of experience in a community of users
- Combination of experience from different users or sources (ensemble
effect,
collaborative recommendation)
- CBR in the context of the semantic web and service-oriented
architectures

CBR in Healthcare (Area Co-Chairs: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Stefania
Montani)
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The opportunities for applying CBR in healthcare are significantly
increasing during the past years and expand its application beyond
traditional medical diagnosis. The following topics are relevant:
- Evidence-based medicine and CBR
- Medical decision-support systems (partially) using CBR
- CBR in point-of-care diagnostics, personalized monitoring, and
prediction of adverse events
- CBR and knowledge discovery from electronic health records
- Case-based processing of medical guidelines
- CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities
or chronic health problems
- Integration of CBR-based solutions in health care environments
- CBR in medical imaging
- Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning
- Applications of CBR in bioinformatics

Submissions
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Authors must submit a full paper with a maximum of 15 pages through
the ECCBR web site by the paper submission deadline. The details of
the submission procedure will be published in time at the ECCBR web
site. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series.

Review Criteria
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Submissions must be identified as either research or application
papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their
category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific
significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review
criteria for application papers will include practical or economic
significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology,
technical quality, and clarity. Further, as we aim at highlighting
contributions to the special areas amongst the submissions on the
above topics, the authors must indicate whether a submission should
be considered to one of these areas.

Important Dates
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March 3, 2008 Paper submission deadline
April 14, 2008 Acceptance notification
May 12, 2008 Camera-ready copy due

Conference Chairs
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Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim Ralph Bergmann,
University of Trier

Local Chair
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Mirjam Minor, University of Trier

Industry Day Chair
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Stefan Wess, empolis

Workshop Chair
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Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim