IT 8000 Integrated Model-Based and Case-Based Reasoning

Fall semester 2008

The pages for this fall's course are not ready yet. Startup time will be announced in interaction with the students who have signed up for the course.
Below you will find the course content of Fall 2006 (the last time the course was run).

Course content

A selected set of book chapters and papers related to the combination of case-based reasoning with f model-based reasoning will be discussed. The actual focus will to some extent depend on the project and interests of the students taking the course.

 

Fall 2006

There will be two issues focused: 1) Modeling and representation 2) Utilizing general models to improve the CBR reasoning process.
Inparticular, we will focus on research done in three research groups who are active in this area:
- The group at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, lead by Pedro Gonzáles-Calero and Belén Díaz-Agudo
- The IIIA group in Barcelona, lead by Enric Plaza
- The Creek work done here at IDI

Three additional papers describe other issues. All approaches will be compared, and a framework for integrating MBR and CBR will be synthesized during the course.

Book

      Janet Kolodner: Case-Based Reasoning. Pages 1- 140.

Papers

1.      B. Díaz-Agudo, P. González-Calero: An architecture for knowledge-intensive CBR systems (EWCBR 2000, LNAI Springer 2000)

2.      B. Díaz-Agudo, P. González-Calero:. A declarative similarity framework for knowledge-intensive CBR (ICCBR, LNAI Springer 2001)

3.      J. L. Arcos, E. Plaza: Inference and reflection in the object-centered representation langauge Noos (FGCS, 1996)

4.      J.L. Arcos, R. Lopez de Mantaras, X. Sierra: SaxeX: a case-based reasoning system for generating expressive musicalperformances. (Int. Comp. Music Conf., ICMC 1997).

5.      E. Plaza, J. L. Arcos: Constructive adaptation. (ECCBR 2002, Sprinegr, LNAI, 2002).

6.      D. Leake: Focusing construction and selection of abductive hypotheses. (IJCAI 1993. pp 24-29.)

7.      A. Aamodt: Knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning in Creek. (ECCBR 2004. LNAI 3155, Spinger, 2004. pgs. 1-15.)

8.      A. Aamodt: Modeling the knowledge contents of CBR systems. (ICCBR 2001, LNAI Springer).

9.      K. Branting, J. Hastings, J. Lockwood: Integrating cases and models for prediction in biological systems. (Int. Conf. AI & Law, 1999).

10.  S. Brüningshouse, K. Ashley: Combining case-based and model-based reasoning for predicting teh outcome of legal cases. (Case-based reasoning research and development, ICCBR 2003. LNAI 2689. pp. 246-260.).

Seminar plan

We will have five meetings to discuss the papers. The students are assumed to work with the topics of the respective papers in between the meetings, and to browse the Internet or use other sources to fill in missing details. The students are also encouraged to arrange group meetings between the scheduled meetings. Each paper is presented by a students, who summarizes it, points out particular scientific issues of interest, research evaluation method applied, and strong and weak points of the paper. All students have to read the papers addressed and prepare for discussions.

The seminar meetings are on Wednesdays from 14:00 to 15:00.

Students assigned to the course: Tore Bruland, Ole Edsberg, Jon Espen Ingvaldsen, Frode Sørmo.

Time schedule:

15/09   Start-up.

29/09   Kolodner’s book. Pres. by all 4 students.

03/11   Papers 1 (Jon), 2 (Tore), 3 (Ole), 4 (Frode).

            noos.pdf

10/11   Summary and continued discussions of papers 1-4. Everyone reads all papers.

17/11   Papers 5 (Ole), 6 (Tore), 7 (Jon), 8 (Frode).

1/12     Papers 9 (Ole, Jon), 10 (Tore, Frode).

15/12   Oral exam.

 

A good general Web-link for all types of AI issues is the AAAI-page. It has a lot of subpages, also related to our theme. Take a look at the Case-Based Reasoning, and the Ontologies pages, for example.

 

NTNU-IDI, September 2006

Agnar Aamodt.