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Towards a Software Architecture for Case-based Reasoning Systems

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Foundations of Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2000)

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We present a software architecture model of adaptation in CBR. A software architecture is defined by its components and their connectors. We present a software architecture for CBR systems based on three components (a task description, a domain model, and adaptors) connected by a type of connectors called bridges. Adaptors are basic inference components that perform specific transformations to cases. Two kinds of adaptors are introduced: domain adaptors (d-adaptors) and case- based adaptors (c-adaptors). Adaptors are applied to a given problem, performing search until a sequence of adaptor instantiations is found such that a solution is achieved. Thus, in the ABC architecture adaptation is viewed as a search process on the space of adaptors. The ABC components have been used in the SaxEx application, a CBR system for generating expressive musical phrases.

This research has been supported by the Project IST-1999-19005 IBROW An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web, and the CICYT Project SMASH : Systems of Multiagents for Medical Services in Hospitals.

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  1. CSIC - Spanish Council for Scientific Research Campus UAB, III A - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, 08193, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

    Enric Plaza & Josep-Lluís Arcos

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-237, Warsaw, Poland

    Zbigniew W. Raś

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, NC 28223, Charlotte, USA

    Zbigniew W. Raś

  3. Department of Science and Technology, Waseda University, 61-414, 3-4-1, Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, 169-8555, Tokyo, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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Plaza, E., Arcos, JL. (2000). Towards a Software Architecture for Case-based Reasoning Systems. In: Raś, Z.W., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1932. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39963-1_63

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