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E X T E N D E D D E A D L I N E :

March 17, 2008

9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2008
1-4 September 2008, Trier (Germany)
http://2008.eccbr.org/

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Due to several requests, we hereby extend the deadline for the
submission of papers to ECCBR 2008 until March 17, 2008. If you
have already submitted a paper you can also upload an improved
version till the extended deadline.

Further we are happy to announce that ECCBR 2008 will issue
TRAVEL GRANTS for students. Information about the conditions for
applications will be shortly available on the ECCBR Web page.

With best regards,
Ralph Bergmann & Klaus-Dieter Althoff (Programm Co-Chairs)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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 17, 2008 Extended Paper submission deadline
April 14, 2008 Acceptance notification
May 12, 2008 Camera-ready copy due

Program 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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Ralph Traphöner, empolis

Workshop Chair
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Martin Schaaf, University of Hildesheim