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Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) paradigm is very close to the designer behavior during the conceptual design, and seems to be a fruitable computer aided-design approach if a library of design cases is available. The goal of this paper is to presents the general framework of a case-based retrieval system: REPRO, that supports chemical process design. The crucial problems like the case representation and structural similarity measure are widely described. The presented experimental results and the expert evaluation shows usefulness of the described system in real world problems. The papers ends with discussion concerning research problems and future work.
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Surma, J., Braunschweig, B. (1996). REPRO: Supporting flowsheet design by case-base retrieval. In: Smith, I., Faltings, B. (eds) Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. EWCBR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1168. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020626
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