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Is CBR a technology or a methodology?

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Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence (IEA/AIE 1998)

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This paper asks whether case-based reasoning is an AI technology like rule-based reasoning, neural networks or genetic algorithms or whether it is better described as a methodology for problem solving, that may use any appropriate technology. By describing four applications of CBR, that variously use: nearest neighbour, induction, fuzzy logic and SQL, the author shows that CBR is a methodology and not a technology.

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Angel Pasqual del Pobil José Mira Moonis Ali

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Watson, I. (1998). Is CBR a technology or a methodology?. In: Pasqual del Pobil, A., Mira, J., Ali, M. (eds) Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64574-8_438

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