• Participants: Any individual, student, research group and professional is invited to participate. At least one person per finalist must register for ICCBR'09, demonstrate the system, and give a talk in the CCC workshop.
  • We do not imply any restriction on the technology to be used:
    • The queries might be transformed manually to an arbitrary input format (structural/formula-based, conversational, text-based) to be processed by the software.
    • The representation of the recipes can be chosen arbitrarily.
    • The technology to be used for selecting and modifying recipes is absolutely open.
    • It is permitted to use any kind of tools.
  • Submissions (see submission instructions) include
    • an up-to-10-page technical description of the system
    • the URL of the running system (Web interface)
    • an additional document with the system results for the exercise queries from the given training material (one to five recipes per query including a note which original recipes from the training recipe base have been used for the creation of the result). In case the system uses further than the given sources for the extraction of similarity or adaptation knowledge, this must be indicated in this document.
  • The final includes
    • a technical talk on the scientific approach at the CCC workshop (the technical description will be published in the ICCBR'09 workshop proceedings)
    • providing the URL of the running system (Web interface) during the competition day
    • a short presentation of the highlights of the approach in a gong show
    • the live demonstration of the system using the given recipe base(s) and the competition queries
  • The compulsory task involves answering queries that require the selection and modification of a recipe for a single dish.
  • The two additional challenge tasks are optional and are assessed outside the normal evaluation. There will be two additional challenge champions.
  • The evaluation criteria are:
    • Culinary quality of the created recipes:
      • appropriate to the query
      • tasty
      • cookable
      • creative
    • Technical quality of the software:
      • usability
      • maintainability
      • performance and scalability
    • Scientific originality of the approach:
      • to which extent it goes 'beyond retrieval', e.g. by adaptation
      • whether it is overcoming the state of the art, e.g. by a technical innovation or by a novel combination of technologies