Applying Recursive CBR for the Custumization of Structured Products in an Electronic Shop

  • Authors:
  • Armin Stahl;Ralph Bergmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • EWCBR '00 Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

When applying CBR for Electronic Commerce, the adaptation capabilities of CBR can be used for product customization. Most adaptation techniques suffer from the problem that they require a large knowledge acquisition effort which leads to problems in the rapidly changing E-Commerce scenario. In this paper we present a new approach to adaptation that is particularly suited to Electronic Commerce applications. It assumes that products can be structured hierarchically into sub-components. Adaptation is achieved by incrementally replacing unsuitable sub-components through recursively applying CBR to find best-matching alternative sub-components. The presented approach avoids huge portions of the knowledge acquisition effort and is prototypically implemented as an extension of the CBR-Works tool.