The software testing state of practice is not as good as it ought to be. To reduce the gap between the state of practice and the state of the art, improvement of software testing is necessary. Existing improvement models focus too little on, or lack important aspects of, software testing. Therefore a new model is required. This paper describes a test improvement model called TIM. The model func...

In this paper Description Logics are presented as a suitable formalism to model the CBR life cycle. We propose a general model to structure the knowledge needed in a CBR system, where adaptation knowledge is explicitly represented. Next, the CBR processes are described based on this model and the CBR system OoFRA is presented as an example of our approach.

In this paper we present a feasibility study we conducted in a German county in order to assess the potential of a legal knowledge system in the domain of family law. The goals of this project were to describe the actual work processes, to propose optimized processes if needed and to develop a prototype. Our study was based on interviews, on two test cases submitted to clerks and on an online q...

Workflow execution in the cloud is a novel field for processoriented case-based reasoning (PO-CBR). In contrast to traditional POCBR approaches where the focus is usually on single workflow instances, an entire set of workflow instances is considered that are currently running on cloud resources. While traditional methods such as running a workflow management tool monolithically on cloud resour...

Introduction It is with some regret that CBR has, since the early 1990’s, been viewed as being synonymous with Knowledge Management and especially so in commercial deployments of CBR systems. Infact, it is often the knowledge management aspect of the technology that is emaphasised and marketed with secondary references to CBR’s merits as a reasoning and learning AI technology. Whilst this analo...

As part of a CMS-funded study, case studies were conducted in Alabama, Indiana, Washington, Wisconsin, Maryland, Michigan, and Kentucky to assess the major features of the home and community-based services system for older people and younger adults with physical disabilities in each State. The case studies analyzed the financing of services; administrative systems; eligibility, assessment, and ...

Risk response is an important work in project risk management (PRM). To generate project risk response strategies, retrieving and reusing information and knowledge of the similar historical cases is important, while research concerning this issue is still relatively scarce. Taking the risk response of the subway project in S city, China as a case problem, this paper proposes a pragmatic method ...

We consider a ...rm’s decision to replace an existing production technology with a new, more cost-e¢cient one. Kulatilaka and Perotti [1998, Management Science ] ...nd that, in a two-period model, increased product market uncertainty could encourage the ...rm to invest strategically in the new technology. This paper extends their framework to a continuous-time model which adds ‡exibility in tim...

This paper presents a new approach for solving the ResourceConstrained Project Scheduling Problem using Case-Based Reasoning in a constructive way. Given a project to be scheduled our method retrieves similar projects scheduled in the past, selects the most similar project, and reuses as much as possible from the old solution to build a schedule for the project at hand. The result of this proce...