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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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

http://2008.eccbr.org/

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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 below) on both fundamental
and applied research in CBR.

In addition to general CBR aspects, ECCBR 2008 will put a particular
focus
on two special areas with relevance to CBR, namely
"The Role of CBR in the Future Internet" and "CBR in Healthcare".

Furthermore, 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 demonstrating the application of
case retrieval, adaptation, and combination methods for cooking
recipes.

FEES

Late registration (until Aug 17, 2008)
- GI member 390 EUR
- non member 440 EUR
- GI member student 290 EUR
- non member student 310 EUR

On-site payment (after Aug 17, 2008)
- GI member 440 EUR
- non member 490 EUR
- GI member student 340 EUR
- non member student 360 EUR

PROGRAM

Monday, Sept. 1st: Workshops and Computer Cooking Contest
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09.30 - 9.45 Opening
09.45 - 11.00 Invited talk:

- Padraig Cunningham & Barry Smyth.
An Analysis of Research Themes in the CBR Conference Literature

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 Parallel Workshops:
- WS1: Uncertainty, Similarity, and Knowledge Discovery in CBR
- WS2: CBR and Context-Awareness
- WS3: CBR in the Health Sciences
- WS4: Computer Cooking Contest Workshop
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Parallel Workshops (WS1-WS4)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.30 Computer Cooking Contest: Live Competition (incl.
Gongshow)
20.00 - 22.00 Evening Event:
Wine Tasting @ Kesselstadt and CCC Awards Ceremony


Tuesday, Sept. 2nd: Industry Day, Application Papers, and Poster
Session
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09.00 - 9.45 Requirements for CBR and Experience Management in the
Finance
and Insurance Industry
9.45 - 10.30 Knowledge drives Business - Call-Center Application at
Siemens Information Services (Siemens SIS)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45 Web 3.0: A Business Perspective (SAP AG)
11.45 - 12.30 Delivering Medical Knowledge (Theseus Programme)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.15 Semantic Information Logistics Architecture - The
eclipse
project SMILA (BROX GmbH)
14.15 - 15.00 Panel: Research and Industry - How to effect impact?
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 16.30 CBR Applications

- Armin Stahl and Thomas Roth-Berghofer.
Rapid Prototyping of CBR Applications with the Open Source Tool
myCBR.

- Juan Manuel Corchado and Aitor Mata.
Predicting the presence of oil slicks after an oil spill.

16.30 - 18.00 Poster Session

- Pedro Almeida, Marco Jorge, Luis Cortesao, Filipe Martins, Marco
Vieira
and Paulo Gomes. Supporting Fraud Analysis in Mobile
Telecommunications
using Case-Based Reasoning.

- Steven Bogaerts and David Leake. Formal and Experimental
Foundations of a
New Rank Quality Measure.

- Amelie Cordier, Beatrice Fuchs, Leonardo Lana de Carvalho, Jean
Lieber,
Alain Mille. Opportunistic Acquisition of Adaptation Knowledge and
Cases - The IakA approach.

- Belen Diaz-Agudo, Enric Plaza, Juan A. Recio-Garcia and Josep-Lluis
Arcos.
Noticeably New: Case Reuse in Originality-Driven Tasks.

- Michael Floyd. Considerations for Real-time Spatially-aware Case-
based
Reasoning: a Case Study in Robotic Soccer Imitation.

- Gonzalo Florez, Belen Diaz-Agudo and Pedro Gonzalez Calero.
Experience-Based Design of Behaviors in Videogames.

- Albert Fornells, Eva Armengol and Elisabet Golobardes. Retrieval
Based on
Self-Explicative Memories.

- Deepak Khemani, Minu Joseph and Saritha V. Case Based
Interpretation of
Soil Chromatograms.

- David Leake and Jay Powell. Knowledge Planning and Learned
Personalization
for Web-Based Case Adaptation.

- Jingzhou Li, Brenan Mackas, Michael Richter and Guenther Ruhe.
Cases,
Predictions, and Accuracy Learning.

- Kinshuk Mishra, Santiago Ontanon and Ashwin Ram. Situation
Assessment for
Plan Retrieval in Real-Time Strategy Games.

- Babak Mougouie. Optimization Algorithms to Find Most Similar
Deductive
Consequences (MSDC).

- Quang Nhat Nguyen and Francesco Ricci. Conversational Case-based
Recommendations Exploiting a Structured Case Model.

- Petra Perner. Case-Based Reasoning and the Statistical Challenges.

- Juan A. Recio-Garcia, Derek Bridge, Belen Diaz-Agudo and Pedro
Gonzalez Calero. CBR for CBR: A Case-Based Template Recommender
System for

Building Case-Based Systems.

- Houcine Romdhane and Luc Lamontagne. Forgetting Reinforced Cases.

- Antonio Sanchez Ruiz-Granados, Pedro Pablo Gomez-Martin, Belen Diaz-
Agudo
and Pedro Gonzalez Calero. Adaptation through Planning in Knowledge
Intensive CBR.

- Fabio Sartori, Stefania Bandini, Ettore Colombo, Giuseppe Frisoni
and
Joakim Svensson. Case-Based Troubleshooting in the Automotive
Context:
the SMMART Project.

- Luis A. L. Silva and John Campbell. Folk Arguments, Numerical
Taxonomy
and Case-Based Reasoning.

- Neha Sugandh, Santiago Ontanon and Ashwin Ram. Real-Time Plan
Adaptation for Case-Based Planning in Real-Time Strategy Games.

- Rosina Weber, Sidath Gunawardena and Craig MacDonald. Horizontal
Case
Representation.

20.00 Evening Event: Open SMILA Community Meeting: Meet the
developers.



Wednesday, Sept. 3rd: Scientific Program
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09.00 - 10.15 Invited Talk

- Enric Plaza.
Semantics and Experience in the Future Web

10.15 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 - 12.15 CBR and the Future Internet (Chair: Enric Plaza)

- Peter Briggs and Barry Smyth. Provenance, Trust, and Sharing in
Peer-to-Peer Case-Based Web Search.

- David Leake and Joseph Morwick. Towards Case-Based Support for e-
Science
Workflow Generation by Mining Provenance Information.

- Amandine Orecchioni, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Stewart Massie and Susan
Craw.
kNN Aggregation with a Stacked Email Representation.

12.15 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 CBR and Learning

- Weiwei Cheng and Eyke Huellermeier. Learning Similarity Functions
from
Qualitative Feedback.

- Thomas Gabel and Martin Riedmiller. Increasing Precision of
Credible
Case-Based Inference.

- Bryan Auslander, Stephen Lee-Urban, Chad Hogg and Hector Munoz-
Avila.
Recognizing the Enemy: Combining Reinforcement Learning with
Strategy
Selection using Case-Based Reasoning.

15.00 - 15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 - 17.15 Textual and Conversational CBR

- David McSherry, Sa'adah Hassan and David Bustard. Conversational
Case-Based Reasoning in Self-Healing and Recovery.

- Sutanu Chakraborti, Ulises Cervino Beresi, Nirmalie Wiratunga,
Stewart
Massie, Robert Lothian and Deepak Khemani. Visualizing and
Evaluating
Complexity of Textual Case Bases.

- M. A. Raghunandan, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Sutanu Chakraborti, Stewart
Massie and Deepak Khemani. Evaluation Measures for TCBR Systems.

19.00 Evening Event: Conference Dinner



Thursday, Sept. 4th: Scientific Program
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09.00 - 10.15 Invited Talk:

- Isabelle Bichindaritz. CBR in the Health Sciences: Why it Matters
for the Health Sciences and for CBR

10.15 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 - 12.15 CBR in Health Science
(Chairs: Isabelle Bichindaritz & Stefania Montani)

- Suzanne Little, Ovidio Salvetti and Petra Perner. Evaluation of
Feature
Subset Selection, Feature Weighting, and Prototype Selection for
Biomedical Applications.

- Cindy Marling, Jay Shubrook and Frank Schwartz. Case-Based Decision
Support for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes on Insulin Pump Therapy.

- Saurav Sahay, Bharat Ravisekar, Sundaresan Venkatasubramanian,
Anushree Venkatesh, Priyanka Prabhu and Ashwin Ram. iReMedI -
Intelligent
Retrieval from Medical Information.

12.15 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Community / PC Meeting
14.00 - 15.00 Maintenance

- Oguz Mulayim and Josep Lluis Arcos. Understanding Dubious Future
Problems.

- David Leake and Scott Dial. Using Case Provenance to Propagate
Feedback
to Cases and Adaptations.

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 16.30 Retrieval & Adaptation

- Eyke Huellermeier, Ilya Vladimirskiy and Belen Prados Suarez.
Supporting
Case-Based Retrieval by Similarity Skylines: Basic Concepts and
Extensions.

- Julien Cojan and Jean Lieber. Conservative Adaptation in Metric
Spaces.

16.30 Closing