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INRECA offers tools and methods for developing, validating, and maintaining classification, diagnosis and decision support systems. INRECA's basic technologies are inductive and case-based reasoning [9]. INRECA fully integrates [2] both techniques within one environment and uses the respective advantages of both technologies. Its object-oriented representation language CASUEL [10, 3] allows the definition of complex case structures, relations, similarity measures, as well as background knowledge to be used for adaptation. The objectoriented representation language makes INRECA a domain independent tool for its destined kind of tasks. When problems are solved via case-based reasoning, the primary kind of knowledge that is used during problem solving is the very specific knowledge contained in the cases. However, in many situations this specific knowledge by itself is not sufficient or appropriate to cope with all requirements of an application. Very often, background knowledge is available and/or necessary to better explore and interpret the available cases [1]. Such general knowledge may state dependencies between certain case features and can be used to infer additional, previously unknown features from the known ones.
Abstraction is one of the most promising approaches to improve the performance of problem solvers. In several domains abstraction by dropping sentences of a domain description - as used in most hierarchical planners - has proven useful. In this paper we present examples which illustrate significant drawbacks of abstraction by dropping sentences. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a more general view of abstraction involving the change of representation language. We have developed a new abstraction methodology and a related sound and complete learning algorithm that allows the complete change of representation language of planning cases from concrete to abstract. However, to achieve a powerful change of the representation language, the abstract language itself as well as rules which describe admissible ways of abstracting states must be provided in the domain model. This new abstraction approach is the core of PARIS (Plan Abstraction and Refinement in an Integrated System), a system in which abstract planning cases are automatically learned from given concrete cases. An empirical study in the domain of process planning in mechanical engineering shows significant advantages of the proposed reasoning from abstract cases over classical hierarchical planning.^
This paper is to present a new algorithm, called KNNcost, for learning feature weights for CBR systems used for classification. Unlike algorithms known so far, KNNcost considers the profits of a correct and the cost of a wrong decision. The need for this algorithm is motivated from two real-world applications, where cost and profits of decisions play a major role. We introduce a representation of accuracy, cost and profits of decisions and define the decision cost of a classification system. To compare accuracy optimization with cost optimization, we tested KNNacc against KNNcost. The first one optimizes classification accuracy with a conjugate gradient algorithm. The second one optimizes the decision cost of the CBR system, respecting cost and profits of the classifications. We present experiments with these two algorithms in a real application to demonstrate the usefulness of our approach.
Fallbasiertes Schliessen (engl.: Case-based Reasoning) hat in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmende Bedeutung für den praktischen Einsatz in realen Anwendungsbereichen erlangt. In dieser Arbeit werden zunächst die allgemeine Vorgehensweise und die verschiedenen Teilaufgaben des fallbasierten Schliessens vorgestellt. Anschliessend wird auf die charakteristischen Eigenschaften eines Anwendungsbereiches eingegangen und an der konkreten Aufgabe der Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung die Realisierung eines fallbasierten Ansatzes in der Finanzwelt beschrieben.
Planabstraktion ist eine Möglichkeit, den Aufwand bei der Suche nach einem Plan zur Lösung eines konkreten Problems zu reduzieren. Hierbei wird eine konkrete Welt mit einer Problemstellung auf eine abstrakte Welt abgebildet. Die abstrakte Problemstellung wird nun in der abstrakten Welt gelöst. Durch die Rückabbildung der abstrakten Lösung auf eine konkrete Lösung erhält man eine Lösung für das konkrete Problem. Da die Anzahl der zur Lösung des abstrakten Problems benötigten Operationen geringer ist und die abstrakten Zustände und Operatoren einer weniger komplexen Beschreibung genügen, wird der Aufwand zur Suche einer konkreten Problemlösung reduziert.
Eine Möglichkeit das Planen in Planungssystemen zu realisieren, ist das fallbasierte Planen. Vereinfacht kann darun ter das Lösen von neuen Planungsproblemen anhand von bereits bekannten Plänen aus der Planungsdomäne verstanden werden. Dazu werden Pläne, die in der Vergangenheit ein Planungsproblem gelöst haben, gesammelt und bei der Lösung neuer Planungsprobleme dahin gehend modifiziert, dass sie das aktuelle Planungsproblem lösen. Um eine grössere Wiederverwendbarkeit der bereits bekannten Pläne zu erreichen, kann man nun eine konkrete Problemstellung mit ihrer Lösung aus der konkreten Planungswelt in eine abstraktere Planungswelt durch eine Abstraktion transformieren.
Case-based problem solving can be significantly improved by applying domain knowledge (in opposition to problem solving knowledge), which can be acquired with reasonable effort, to derive explanations of the correctness of a case. Such explanations, constructed on several levels of abstraction, can be employed as the basis for similarity assessment as well as for adaptation by solution refinement. The general approach for explanation-based similarity can be applied to different real world problem solving tasks such as diagnosis and planning in technical areas. This paper presents the general idea as well as the two specific, completely implemented realizations for a diagnosis and a planning task.
Case-based problem solving can be significantly improved by applying domain knowledge (in opposition to problem solving knowledge), which can be acquired with reasonable effort, to derive explanations of the correctness of a case. Such explanations, constructed on several levels of abstraction, can be employed as the basis for similarity assessment as well as for adaptation by solution refinement. The general approach for explanation-based similarity can be applied to different real world problem solving tasks such as diagnosis and planning in technical areas. This paper presents the general idea as well as the two specific, completely implemented realizations for a diagnosis and a planning task.
Fallbasiertes Schliessen (engl.: Case-based Reasoning) hat in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmende Bedeutung für den praktischen Einsatz in realen Anwendungsbereichen erlangt. In dieser Arbeit stellen wir zunächst die allgemeine Vorgehensweise und die verschiedenen Teilaufgaben des fallbasierten Schliessens vor. Anschliessend erörtern wir die charakteristischen Eigenschaften eines Anwendungsbereiches, die einen Einsatz des fallbasierten Ansatzes begünstigen, und demonstrieren an der konkreten Aufgabe der Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung die Realisierung eines fallbasierten Ansatzes in der Finanzwelt. Die abschliessende Diskussion zeigt durch einen Vergleich mit verschiedenen Methoden der Klassifikation das grosse Innovationspotential des fallbasierten Schliessens in der Finanz- welt als eine echte Alternative zu bisherigen Methoden.