6th GERMAN WORKSHOP ON CASE-BASED REASONING

                 - Foundations, Systems, and Applications -

                           Berlin, March 6-8, 1998

(see also: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~cbr-ws/GWCBR98 )
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Table of Contents

   * Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers
        o Workshop Announcement
        o Time and Place
        o Contributions
        o Program and Organizing Committee
   * Registration information and Online registration (not yet possible)

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ANNOUNCEMENT

The 6th CBR workshop is organised by the German special interest group on
case-based reasoning (CBR) in the German society for computer science (GI).
It aims at offering a forum for the presentation and discussion of new
directions and interesting work in progress in the field of case-based
reasoning and closely related areas such as knowledge organisation. The
workshop will try to bring together research on technical and cognitive
foundations of case-based reasoning as well as practical requirements and
experiences from the development of applications.

Contributions to the workshop are welcome from the whole field of CBR.
Possible topics include:

   * CBR in distributed environments (reactive agents, World-Wide-Web)
   * acquisition and maintenance of knowledge for CBR
   * experiences from system development
   * cognitive and computational memory models (memory (re-)organization,
     retrieval, concept formation, abstraction)
   * task specific architectures (e.g. for diagnosis, configuration, design,
     planning)
   * similarity assessment
   * adaptation techniques
   * learning
   * applications
   * tools

Special Track "CBR and Text Documents"

In recent years, the ability of CBR technology to deal with multiple
knowledge sources became obvious. In particular, knowledge encoded in
textual documents (such as manuals, documentations, and FAQ collections) may
be of high value in many applications and hence CBR systems should aim at
reusing this expertise, too.

As a result of that requirement, a remarkable number of contributions to
ICCBR-97 suggested approaches of how CBR systems can handle textual cases.
These approaches include pure CBR technqiues as well as combinations of CBR
and Information Retrieval. What's more, even research sites in major
(German) companies, such as Daimler-Benz or Siemens, focus on these issues.

To focus the ongoing work and to support exchange of ideas, we intend to
have a "Special Track on CBR and Text Documents" at GWCBR-98. While the
final form of organization of this part of the workshop depends on the
received submissions, we are planning to include the following
contributions:

   * an invited talk on CBR with textual documents;
   * scientific papers on all issues concerned with this topic;
   * comparative studies of CBR and Information Retrieval;
   * application papers about performed studies and projects;
   * reports about ongoing projects in research sites and enterprises;
   * descriptions of domains and problem areas in which the reuse of text
     documents is of high interest, including their specific requirements.

Consequently, contributions to the above and related topics are particularly
welcome. Questions concerning this Special Track should directly be sent to
Mario Lenz (lenz@informatik.hu-berlin.de).

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TIME and PLACE

The workshop takes place from March 6th to March 8th, 1998, at the
KongressHotel Berlin-Rahnsdorf.

Information on how to get there will be made available here shortly.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions to the workshop are welcome from the whole field of CBR.
Extended abstracts (3 copies) should be sent to

     Prof. Dr. Lothar Gierl
     Institut f_r Medizinische Informatik und Biometrie
     Universit_t Rostock
     Rembrandtstr. 16/17
     18055 Rostock
     Germany

     Tel. ++49.381.494.7360
     Fax. ++49.381.494.7203
     Email lothar.gierl@medizin.uni-rostock.de

Papers can also be submitted via email. Only postscript files (not
compressed) can be accepted. Send your paper to:
lothar.gierl@medizin.uni-rostock.de

Papers should not exceed 6 pages and may be written either in English or
German. The workshop languages are English and German.

The program committee decides about acception and length of presentation at
the workshop.

 15.11.97deadline for abstracts
 16.12.97notification of acceptance
 10.01.98deadline for camera-ready copies

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PROGRAM AND ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

     Lothar Gierl (Chair), University of Rostock

     Brigitte Bartsch-Sp_rl, BSR Consulting GmbH, Munich
     Ralph Bergmann, University of Kaiserslautern
     Michael Brown, Siemens AG
     Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin
     Peter Jaenecke, Alcatel SEL AG, Stuttgart
     Mario Lenz, Humboldt University Berlin
     Stefan Wess, tecInno GmbH, Kaiserslautern

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