Predictive Approaches to Control of Complex Systems

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.