Case based reasoning and the search for knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Michael M. Richter

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICDM'07 Proceedings of the 7th industrial conference on Advances in data mining: theoretical aspects and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A major goal of this paper is to compare Case Based Reasoning with other methods searching for knowledge. We consider knowledge as a resource that can be traded. It has no value in itself; the value is measured by the usefulness of applying it in some process. Such a process has info-needs that have to be satisfied. The concept to measure this is the economical term utility. In general, utility depends on the user and its context, i.e., it is subjective. Here we introduce levels of context from general to individual. We illustrate that Case Based Reasoning on the lower, i.e., more personal levels CBR is quite useful, in particular in comparison with traditional informational retrieval methods.