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Mapping Goals and Kinds of Explanations to the Knowledge Containers of Case-Based Reasoning Systems

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 2005)

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Research on explanation in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is a topic that gains momentum. In this context, fundamental issues on what are and to which end do we use explanations have to be reconsidered. This article presents a prelimenary outline of the combination of two recently proposed classifications of explanations based on the type of the explanation itself and user goals which should be fulfilled. Further on, the contribution of the different knowledge containers for modeling the necessary knowledge is examined.

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  1. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern

    Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer

  2. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Jörg Cassens

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    Héctor Muñoz-Ávila

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano,  

    Francesco Ricci

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Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Cassens, J. (2005). Mapping Goals and Kinds of Explanations to the Knowledge Containers of Case-Based Reasoning Systems. In: Muñoz-Ávila, H., Ricci, F. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11536406_35

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