Failure Analysis for Domain Knowledge Acquisition in a Knowledge-Intensive CBR System

  • Authors:
  • Amélie Cordier;Béatrice Fuchs;Jean Lieber;Alain Mille

  • Affiliations:
  • LIRIS CNRS, UMR 5202, Université Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Lyon 2, ECL, 43, bd du 11 Novembre 1918, Villeurbanne Cedex, France;LIRIS CNRS, UMR 5202, Université Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Lyon 2, ECL, 43, bd du 11 Novembre 1918, Villeurbanne Cedex, France;Orpailleur team, LORIA UMR 7503 CNRS, INRIA, Nancy Universities, BP 239 54 506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France;LIRIS CNRS, UMR 5202, Université Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Lyon 2, ECL, 43, bd du 11 Novembre 1918, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • ICCBR '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Case-Based Reasoning: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning system has profit of the domain knowledge, together with the case base. Therefore, acquiring new pieces of domain knowledge should improve the accuracy of such a system. This paper presents an approach for knowledge acquisition based on some failures of the system. The cbrsystem is assumed to produce solutions that are consistent with the domain knowledge but that may be inconsistent with the expert knowledge, and this inconsistency constitutes a failure. Thanks to an interactive analysis of this failure, some knowledge is acquired that contributes to fill the gap from the system knowledge to the expert knowledge. Another type of failures occurs when the solution produced by the system is only partial: some additional pieces of information are required to use it. Once again, an interaction with the expert involves the acquisition of new knowledge. This approach has been implemented in a prototype, called FrakaS, and tested in the application domain of breast cancer treatment decision support.