Advances in Case-Based Reasoning 7th European Conference, ECCBR

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Peter Funk Pedro A. González Calero (Eds.)

Advances in Case-Based Reasoning 7th European Conference, ECCBR 2004 Madrid, Spain, August 30 - September 2, 2004 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Peter Funk Mälardalen University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering 72123 Västerås, Sweden E-mail: [email protected] Pedro A. González Calero Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Informática 28040 Madrid, Spain E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004110637

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, J.4, J.1, F.4.1 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-22882-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Olgun Computergrafik Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11310648 06/3142 543210

Preface

The 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2004) was held from August 30 through September 2, at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. ECCBR was born in Aberdeen, UK (2002), after a series of European workshops held in Trento, Italy (2000), Dublin, Ireland (1998), Lausanne, Switzerland (1996), Paris, France (1994), and Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993). ECCBR is the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners of case-based reasoning (CBR) in the years interleaving with the biennial international counterpart ICCBR, whose 5th edition was held in Trondheim, Norway in 2003. The CBR community has shown for years a deep interest in the application of its research to real-world problems. As a result, the first day of both ECCBR and ICCBR has been traditionally dedicated to presenting industrial CBR applications. ECCBR 2004 Industry Day was co-chaired by Mehmet Göker and Francisco Martín who invited professionals from different fields to describe their fielded CBR systems. The second day of the conference was dedicated to four workshops focusing on the following research interests: CBR in health sciences, explanation in CBR, computational creativity, and CBR applied to time series prediction. We are grateful to the Workshop Program co-chairs, Pablo Gervás and Kalyan Moy Gupta, for their efforts in coordinating these workshops, along with th