Summary: | Case-based reasoning offers tremendous advantages over other AI based techniques in all those fields where experiential knowledge is readily available. This research book presents a sample of successful applications of case-based reasoning. The contributions include: " Introduction to case-based reasoning " Case-based reasoning for medical and industrial support systems " Industrial knowledge management applications " Decision making in small and medium enterprises " Heterogeneity in ontological CBR systems " The adaptation problem in medical case-based reasoning systems " Prototype-based classification in unbalanced biomedical problems " Case-based ranking for environmental risk assessment " Recipe advisor and menu creator The book is directed to the application engineers, scientists, professors and students who wish to develop successful case-based reasoning applications.
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