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Black Swans, Gray Cygnets and Other Rare Birds

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2009)

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Surprising, exceptional cases — so-called black swans — can provoke extraordinary change in the way we do things or conceptualize the world. While it is not unreasonable to be surprised by a black swan, to be surprised by subsequent cases that are similar enough that they might cause the same sort of upheaval is unforgivable. The problem is how to reason about these almost novel, not totally unforeseen, subsequent cases that I call gray cygnets.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, 140 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003-9264

    Edwina L. Rissland

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  1. Adaptive Information Cluster, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin,, Computer Science Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

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  2. Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, NC 28223-0001, Charlotte, USA

    David C. Wilson

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Rissland, E.L. (2009). Black Swans, Gray Cygnets and Other Rare Birds. In: McGinty, L., Wilson, D.C. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5650. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02998-1_2

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