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Call for Papers ICCBR 2007 Call for papers Seventh International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Belfast, Northern Ireland, 13-16 August 2007 www.iccbr.org/iccbr07 ICCBR and ECCBR are the premier international meetings on case-based reasoning. While ECCBR conferences are always held in Europe, previous ICCBR conferences have been held in Chicago, USA (2005), Trondheim, Norway (2003), Vancouver, Canada (2001), Seeon Monastery, Germany (1999), Providence, Rhode Island, USA (1997), and Sesimbra, Portugal (1995). The next ICCBR will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland from the 13th to the 16th of August. In order to expand the frontiers of CBR as a scientific field, we would like to emphasize the connections between CBR and related areas, and to explore new problems and industrial solutions. For this reason, we will combine an industry program with the scientific and workshop programs. The conference will bring two keynote speakers from outside the community, who will help us to cross current boundaries of CBR research towards intelligent databases and bioinformatics. Larry Kerschberg from George Mason University will talk about CBR and Databases and Larry Hunter will bring new ideas on how to explore CBR for bioinformatics. The conference will bring two invited speakers from the CBR community. Eva Armengol will talk about machine learning and David W. Aha will discuss problems concerning the perceived lack of theoretical foundations in CBR by funding agencies. Important Dates Submission deadline: 14 February 2007 Notification of acceptance: 05 April 2007 Camera ready copy due: 05 May 2007 Submission Topics The ICCBR 2007 Program Committee invites submissions of original theoretical research, applied research, and deployed application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. Example submission areas include, but are not limited to: Case-based reasoning foundations Conversational case-based reasoning Textual case-based reasoning Distributed case-based reasoning Case-based reasoning and uncertainty Case-based reasoning in design, diagnosis, health, law, education Knowledge management in case-based reasoning, case and experience-based knowledge management Case-based recommender systems Fielded applications of case-based reasoning Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualization, maintenance and management for CBR CBR system design issues (e.g., indexing, retrieval, similarity assessment and adaptation) Collaborative agent architectures involving CBR Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning approaches based on CBR Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models and systems Lazy-learning, instance-based learning and case-based learning Case-based approaches to scheduling, design and robot navigation Adaptive interfaces, user modeling, customization and personalization using CBR CBR and knowledge discovery, data mining, text mining CBR software reuse and engineering redesign Explanations, Context, and confidence in CBR Peer-to-Peer Networks and CBR CBR in the Semantic Web Proceedings All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Review Criteria Each submission must be identified as theoretical/methodological research, applied research, or deployed application paper and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to its category. Because we understand that some papers may be in the borderline between two categories, we encourage authors to enter a second category if they feel appropriate. The criteria are as follows: Paper Category: Theoretical/Methodological research paper Review Criteria: Scientific significance; originality; technical quality; and clarity Paper Category: Applied research paper Review Criteria: Significance for advancing applications or promise for innovative commercial development; originality; technical quality; and clarity Paper Category: Deployed application paper Review Criteria: Demonstrated practical, social, environmental or economic significance; originality; treatment of issues of engineering, management & user acceptance; and clarity. Submission Format Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 15 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights to Springer. All submissions are required to be in electronic format. Submission Procedure Authors must submit a full paper by 14 February 2007. Submission instructions will be made available here: http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/submission.html Multiple Submission Policy Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ICCBR'07 before 30 March 2007. This restriction does not apply to papers appearing in proceedings of specialized workshops. Author Registration Policy In order for a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy (05 May 2007). Program Chairs Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA Conference Chair David Patterson, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Workshop Program Chairs David Wilson, University of North Carolina, USA Deepak Khemani, IIT Madras, India Industry Program Chairs Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany Industry Program Steering Committee Kareem S. Aggour, General Electric CRD, USA Bill Cheetham, General Electric CRD, USA Mehmet Goker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA Kalyan Moy Gupta, Knexus Research Corp., USA Program Committee Members (already confirmed, more to be added): Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway Kareem S. Aggour, General Electric CRD, USA David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany Josep Lluís Arcos, IIIACSIC, Spain Eva Armengol, Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial, Spain Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA Paolo Avesani, ITC-irst Trento, Italy Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany Enrico Blanzieri, University of Trento, Italy L. Karl Branting, BAE Systems, USA Derek Bridge, University College Cork, Ireland Stefanie Bruninghaus, University of Pittsburgh, USA Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Amilcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra , Portugal Bill Cheetham, General Electric CRD, USA Michael Cox, BBN Technologies , USA Susan Craw, Robert Gordon University, Scotland Padraig Cunningham, University College Dublin, Ireland Belén Díaz-Agudo, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Mehmet Goker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA Pedro A. González Calero, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain Kalyan Moy Gupta Knexus Research Corp., USA Eyke Huellermeier, University of Magdeburg, Germany Larry Hunter, University of Colorado, USA Larry Kerschberg, Geroge Mason University, USA Deepak Khemani, IIT Madras, India Luc Lamontagne, Université Laval, Canada David Leake, Indiana University, USA Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIACSIC, Spain Cindy Marling, Ohio University, USA Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin, Ireland David McSherry, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Hector Muñoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA David Patterson, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Petra Perner, ICVACS, Germany Enric Plaza, IIIACSIC, Spain Luigi Portinale, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy Lisa S. Purvis, Xerox Corporation, USA Francesco Ricci, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts, USA Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany M. Sasikumar, C-DAC Mumbai , India Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland Raja Sooriamurthi, Indiana University, USA Armin Stahl, DFKI, Germany Flavio Tonidandel, UniFEI, Brazil Ian Watson, University of Aukland, New Zealand Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA David Wilson, University of North Carolina, USA Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland Qiang Yang, University of Honk Kong, China Bhanu Prasad, Florida A&M University, USA