This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ECCBR 2004, held in Fethiye, Turkey in September 2006.
The 31 revised full papers and 5 revised application papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 2 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. All current issues in case-based reasoning, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to advanced applications in various fields are addressed, thus presenting a representative snapshot of current CBR research.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4106 Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer Mehmet H. Göker H. Altay Güvenir (Eds.) Advances in Case-Based Reasoning 8th European Conference, ECCBR 2006 Fethiye, Turkey, September 4-7, 2006 Proceedings 13 Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz DFKI GmbH Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany E-mail:
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