The Sixth International Conference on Case-based Reasoning

dustry Day, which provided real-world experiences utilizing CBR in fielded applications. The second day featured four workshops on various CBR related topics: health sciences, textual case-based reasoning, computer gaming and simulation environments, and similarities—processes—workflows. Days 3 and 4 comprised presentations and posters on theoretical and applied CBR research, as well as invited talks from two distinguished scholars: Derek Bridge, the University College Cork, and Craig Knoblock, the University of Southern California. ICCBR-05 received 74 paper submissions from 19 countries around the world. Of these, the program committee selected 26 for poster presentations and 19 for oral presentations. The acceptance rate for oral presentations was 25.6 percent, close to the historical average for ICCBR conferences. Each submission was identified as in one of three categories and judged using the following criteria: (1) theoretical/methodological research paper (scientific significance; originality; technical quality; and clarity); (2) applied research paper (significance for scientific research or innovative commercial deployment; originality; ■ The Sixth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-05) took place from 23 August through 26 August 2005 at the downtown campus of DePaul University, in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop. The conference program included Industry Day, four workshops, and two days of technical paper presentations divided into poster sessions and a single plenary track. This report describes the conference in detail.