[Sigkm-l] 1st CfP: Workshop on Knowledge Generation for Case-Based Reasoning @ ICCBR-2010

[Kerstin Bach]

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Call for Papers

Workshop on Workshop on Knowledge Generation for Case-Based Reasoning

At the 18th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning

Workshop Website: 	http://www.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/KnowGen2010/
Conference: 		http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr10/

Paper submission deadline: *April 23, 2010*
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Case-based Reasoning systems rely on their underlying knowledge that is 
organized in knowledge containers and required for each phase of the 
case-based problem-solving process. The knowledge acquisition is a core 
task during the development of Case-Based Reasoning systems. Once a 
Case-Based Reasoning system is running, the knowledge within the 
knowledge containers has to be maintained in order to keep the system 
up-to-date. The generation and usage of knowledge affects all areas of 
Case-Based Reasoning: the generation of vocabulary knowledge, the 
specification of similarity measures or the adaptation of retrieved 
solutions.

The workshop focuses on methods for supporting the automated 
generation/acquisition of knowledge for Case-Based Reasoning systems. We 
are looking for approaches that contribute to any one of the knowledge 
containers or the phases of the case-based problem-solving process. An 
important and special case is knowledge about similarity, because cases 
are selected based on their similarity to a current problem description. 
Since similarity measures usually contain significant domain knowledge, 
knowledge generation plays a major role in the development of similarity 
measures.

Naturally, the knowledge generated is uncertain. Representing and 
processing this uncertainty (which corresponds to a kind of 
meta-knowledge, i.e., knowledge about the knowledge) in an adequate way 
is an important issue that should also be addressed in the workshop. 
Especially in knowledge areas with complex, approximate, imprecise cases 
and heterogeneous domains, the domain knowledge is usually uncertain and 
incomplete. We are interested in examining how reliable the acquired 
knowledge is, or what confidence we have in it as well as the types of 
uncertainty that need to be determined and dealt with using appropriate 
methods and techniques.

The organizers welcome contributions on the topic of:

	* Assigning confidence
	* Automatic case generation adaptation knowledge generation
	* Maintenance knowledge
	* Probabilistic reasoning and Bayesian methods,
	* Fuzzy sets, possibility theory, evidence theory,
	* Rough sets and information theory,
	* Neural networks and evolutionary computation,
	* Machine learning and data mining algorithms
	* Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, and modeling,
	* Maintenance and management of CBR systems,
	* Case indexing and retrieval,
	* Similarity assessment and adaptation
	* Flexible similarity measures,
	* Similarity measures for complex, imprecise and heterogeneous case 
domains,
	* Maintenance of corporate memories,
	* Instance-based and case-based learning,
	* Confidence,
	* CBR applications.

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  Submissions
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We encourage submissions of papers that report on advances in these core 
areas. In addition to full papers we also encourage submissions 
presenting more preliminary results and discussing open problems, for 
example, dealing with insights or important open problems for future 
research derived from the construction and use of applications. 
Correspondingly, two types of contributions will be solicited, namely 
short communications (short talks) and full papers (long talks).

We also encourage authors to submit papers complementing possible 
submissions to the main ICCBR conference, for example, papers presenting 
preliminary extensions or explicitly focusing on unsolved problems. In 
this case, we only ask to inform us about the existence of a related 
conference submission and its title.

Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is 
the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 
10 pages for full and 6 pages for short papers. Authors' instructions 
along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submissions should be made through the knowledge generation workshop 
track on the conference management system: EasyChair: 
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=iccbr2010.

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  Deadlines and Dates
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- April 23, 2010:   Deadline for workshop paper submission
- May 10, 2010:     Notification of acceptance for workshop papers
- May 28, 2010:     Final camera ready copies due
- July 20, 2010:    Workshops held at ICCBR 2010 (in parallel)

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  Workshop Organizers
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- Kerstin Bach, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, 
Germany
- Eyke Hüllermeier, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, 
University of Marburg, Germany
- Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich, UK

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Kerstin Bach, M.Sc.			   			
Office: + 49 (5121) 883 754	    University of Hildesheim
Room: 	C34 (Spl)		    Institute of Computer Science
www.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/~bach     Intelligent Information Systems Lab