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A Value Supplementation Method for Case Bases with Incomplete Information

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2009)

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In this paper we present a method for supplementing incomplete cases with information from other cases within a case base. The acquisition of complete and correct cases is a time-consuming task, but nevertheless crucial for the quality and acceptance of a case-based reasoning system. The method introduced in this paper uses association rules to identify relations between attributes and, based on the discovered relations we are able to supplement values in order to complete cases. We argue that using these related attributes when retrieving supplementation candidates will yield better results than simply picking the case with the highest global similarity. The evaluation of the method is carried out using four different publicly available case bases.

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  1. Intelligent Information Systems Lab, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany

    Kerstin Bach, Meike Reichle & Klaus-Dieter Althoff

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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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Bach, K., Reichle, M., Althoff, KD. (2009). A Value Supplementation Method for Case Bases with Incomplete Information. 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_28

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