Workshop at the Sixth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
News
- The projectors for presentation have just a resolution of 800x600 pixel, a PCs with XP/Powerpoint 2003 is available.
- The workshop will be held in English language and will last one day, in fact at Wednesday August 24, 2005 starting at 10:20 in room 922
- The workshop program is now available. (Program)
Objectives
Processes and workflows are current hot topics. Dealing with processes and workflows involves a number of complex tasks as e.g. planning, managing, executing and adapting them. In order to support humans in these tasks, approaches from the area of Lessons-Learned as well as CBR can provide valuable support. CBR-techniques have been applied to planning in general as well as to specific processes in particular several times. Planning problems are fairly general and most of the applications assumed the classical AI assumptions: All conditions are known, clearly stated, correct, and are not up to change. However, in the process and workflow domain this is not the case and therefore new, more flexible techniques are required.
The overall goal of the workshop is to collect present approaches in order to make a step towards a systematic and unified development of techniques in this area. This will be achieved by bringing together researchers in CBR and researchers and practitioners on processes and workflows in different domains.
Topic of Interest
We appreciate submissions from all areas contributing to the application of Lessons-Learned and CBR approaches to process and workflow domains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Business processes and workflows in different domains and contexts
- Software development processes
- The role of Lessons-Learned and reuse techniques
- Similarity and product lines
- Weak workflows
- Effort estimates and confidence estimation
- Reuse of workflows and processes
- Supporting workflow and process adaptation, e.g.
- Finding a workflow or process that is most suitable for adaptation to a given task
- Workflow duration estimation
- Predictive control adaptation
Typical technical issues are e.g.:
- Finding a good representation vocabulary
- Systematic treatment of similarity assessment
- Determining influence factors and using them for similarity assessment
- Regarding adaptation as an approximation process with respect to the similarity measure
- Extending maintenance to the similarity measure
- Using different similarity measures for the same processes depending on the special task