Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development

One of the first CBR systems was CHEF, a case-based planner that reuses cooking recipes for creating new ones. Since then, a wide variety of applications of case-based planning (CBP) have been proposed including manufacturing, military planning and emergency prediction. In this talk, the speaker will discuss the evolution of the role of the cases in CBP. In early CBP systems like CHEF, cases provide domain knowledge. Later, cases provided control knowledge to guide first-principles planners. More recently, the speaker has developed a theory explaining how cases can play both roles. This theory facilitates the use of CBP for a number of new applications including project planning and plan discovery.