Case-Based Reasoning Integrations

The following four workshops were held in conjunction with the conference: (1) Case-Based Reasoning Integrations, (2) Learning for Text Categorization, (3) Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time-Series Problems, and (4) Software Tools for Developing Agents. The AAAI-98 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) Integrations, attended by approximately 45 people, focused on issues concerning multimodal reasoning systems that contain a CBR component. Although CBR is a general problem-solving architecture that is frequently integrated with other reasoning methods to solve complex tasks, no previous workshop attempted to characterize CBR integration issues. Workshop highlights included invited talks by Mary Lou Maher (University of Sydney) on design, Janice Glasgow (Queens University) on computational imagery, and Marc Goodman (Continuum Software, Inc.) on World Wide Web applications of CBR integrations. These talks provided the audience with a breadth of suggestions on how CBR can assist, and benefit from, integrations with other reasoning methods for a variety of tasks.