4th German Workshop on CBR - Preliminary Program
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                      Still a few places available!
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For the 4th German Workshop on CBR, 5 places are still available!
The workshop will take place in Berlin from March 20 to March 22.
The preliminary program is attached below. An up-to-date WWW page is
accessible via

   http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~cbr-ws




Wednesday, March 20
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18:30 _______ Opening Dinner
19:30 - XX:XX Informal get together

Thursday, March 21
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09:00 - 10:30 Invited speaker
_____________ Prof. Hans-Joachim Lenz: Statistical Aspects of CBR
_____________ Freie Universitaet Berlin
_____________ Institut fuer of Statistik und Oekonometrie
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:20 Session 1: Evaluation of Systems
11:00 _______ Althoff, K-D; Weis, K-H (Germany):
_____________ An Evaluation of the INRECA System for Decision Support
              and Diagnosis
11:20 _______ Curet, O; Jackson, M (UK):
_____________ Evaluating a Case-Based Learning and Reasoning  
Application:
              The Top Management Fraud Diagnostic Tool (TMFDT)
11:40 _______ Deters, R (Germany):
_____________ Evaluating a Case-Based Diagnosis Tool
12:00 _______ Urbanski, A (Poland):
_____________ Evaluating Case-Based Reasoner which Predicts Demand in
              Fast-Food Service Restaurants Using Simulation  
Technique
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session 2: General Aspects
14:00 _______ Bartsch-Spoerl, B (Germany):
_____________ Towards a Methodology for How to Make CBR Systems Work  
in Practice
14:30 _______ Woltering, A; Schiemann, I (Germany):
_____________ Die Notwendigkeit einer Entwicklungsmethodologie zum
              Aufbau fallbasierter Anwendungssysteme
14:50 _______ Schiemann, I; Woltering, A (Germany):
_____________ Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der Modellierung von  
Systemen
              mittels fallbasierter Methoden
15:10 _______ Schulz, R (Germany):
_____________ The Use of Human Knowledge in Case-Based Decision  
Support Systems
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session 3: Representation Issues
16:00 _______ Bichindaritz, I (France):
_____________ From Cases to Classes: Focusing on Abstraction in
              Case-Based Reasoning
16:20 _______ Kamp, G (Germany):
_____________ Multiple Case Representations and Similarity-Based  
Systems
16:40 _______ Boerner, K; Wode, H; Fassauer, R (Germany):
_____________ Conceptual Analogy: Conceptual Clustering for Informed  
and
              Efficient Analogical Reasoning
17:00 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 18:15 Session 4: Applications I
17:15 _______ Lees, B (UK):
_____________ Case-Based Reasoning in a Safety Critical Systems
Integrated
              Development Environment
17:35 _______ Lees, B; Hamza, M; Irgens, C (UK):
_____________ Applying Case-Based Reasoning to Software Quality
Management
17:55 _______ Schmidt, R; Heindl, B; Pollwein, B; Gierl, L (Germany):
_____________ Prognoses of Multiparametric Time Course Abstractions  
in a
              Case-Based Reasoning System
18:30 _______ Dinner
19:00 - 20:00 Session 5: Applications II
19:00 _______ Seitz, A; Uhrmacher, AM (Germany):
_____________ Cases versus Model-Based Knowledge - An Application
in the Area of Bone Healing
19:20 _______ Wess, S (Germany):
_____________ Fallbasiertes Schliessen in Help-Desk und Call-Center
              Anwendungen
19:40 _______ Burkhard, H-D; Pirk, P (Germany):
_____________ Technical Diagnosis: Fallexperte-D
20:00 - 21:00 Open Meeting of the German FG-CBR
              * CBR News Exchange
              * Feedback to the workshop
              * Preparation of the next workshop
              * Other activities

Friday, March 22
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09:00 - 10:20 Session 5: Integration
09:00 _______ Bergmann, R; Wilke, W; Vollrath, I; Wess, S (Germany):
_____________ Integrating General Knowledge with Object-Oriented Case
              Representation and Reasoning
09:20 _______ Oertel, W (Germany):
_____________ Zur Integration von fall- und regelbasierten
              Verfahren im Entwicklungssystem FAENSY
09:30 _______ Pal, K; Campbell, JA (UK):
_____________ Integrating Rule-based and Case-based Reasoning in
              Legal Decision-making Processes
10:00 _______ Polkowski, L; Skowron, A (Poland);
              Komorowski, J (Norway):
_____________ Approximate Case-Based Reasoning:
              A Rough Mereological Approach
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:10 Session 7: Memory & Retrieval
10:50 _______ Jose, B; Singh, BP; Venkataraman, S; Krishnan, R  
(India):
_____________ Vector Based Image Matching for Indexing in CBR Systems
11:10 _______ Gebhardt, F (Germany):
_____________ Structure Oriented Case Retrieval
11:30 _______ Burkhard, H-D; Lenz, M (Germany):
_____________ Case Retrieval Nets: Basic Ideas and Extensions
11:50 _______ Lenz, M (Germany):
_____________ Case Retrieval Nets Applied to Large Case Bases
12:15 - 12:30 Concluding Discussion
12:30 _______ Lunch Break
14:00 _______ Departure