Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications - I [electronic resource] / edited by Stefania Montani, Lakhmi C. Jain.

Innovations in Case-Based Reasoning Applications -- Case-Based Reasoning for Medical and Industrial Decision Support Systems -- Development of Industrial Knowledge Management Applications with Case-Based Reasoning -- Case Based Reasoning for Supporting Strategy Decision Making in Small and Medium Enterprises -- Heterogeneity in Ontological CBR Systems -- The Adaptation Problem in Medical CaseBased Reasoning Systems -- PrototypeBased Classification in Unbalanced Biomedical Problems -- CaseBased Ranking for Environmental Risk Assessment -- CookIIS A Successful Recipe Advisor and Menu Creator.

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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