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An Overview and Comparison of Case-Based Reasoning Frameworks

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Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is a methodology with many applications in industrial and scientific domains. Over the past decades, various frameworks have been developed to facilitate the development of CBR applications. For practitioners and researchers, it is challenging to overview the landscape of existing frameworks with their specific scope and features. This makes it difficult to choose the most suitable framework for specific requirements. To address this issue, this work provides an overview and comparison of CBR frameworks, focusing on five recent, open-source CBR frameworks: CloodCBR, eXiT*CBR, jColibri, myCBR, and ProCAKE. They are compared by supported CBR types, knowledge containers, CBR phases, interfaces, and special features.

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    http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/cbr/CBRDistrib/.

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    https://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/mbsg/cbrprojects/getting_caspian.shtml.

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    http://freecbr.sourceforge.net/.

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    http://www-sop.inria.fr/aid/software.html.

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    https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/leake/iucbrf/.

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    A complete overview table is available at: https://git.opendfki.de/easy/overview-and-comparison-of-cbr-frameworks/-/blob/main/Overview-Table.pdf.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the following people for contributing to the compilation of the CBR framework fact sheets: Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji and Chamath Palihawadana (CloodCBR), Beatriz López, Oscar Raya, and Jonah Fernández (eXiT*CBR), Juan Antonio Recio García (jColibri), and Pascal Reuss (myCBR). This work is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action under grant No. 01MD22002C EASY.

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Schultheis, A., Zeyen, C., Bergmann, R. (2023). An Overview and Comparison of Case-Based Reasoning Frameworks. In: Massie, S., Chakraborti, S. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40177-0_21

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