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Second Call for Papers
6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
4-7 September 2002
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/

ECCBR 2002 is the 6th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning.
This four-day conference will be held at The Robert Gordon University
in Scotland's granite city, Aberdeen.  The program will start with the
ECCBR Industry Day and workshops, followed by the three day conference
of invited talks, presentations and posters on both theoretical and
applied research in CBR.  Announcements concerning these events will
be posted at the website.

Submission Topics:

    The ECCBR'02 Program Committee invites submissions of original
    research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based
    Reasoning. Example submission areas include, but are not limited
    to:

  * CBR system design issues (e.g.,indexing, retrieval, similarity
    assessment, and adaptation)
  * Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling,
    visualisation, maintenance, and management for CBR
  * System architectures and integration of CBR with other methods
  * Collaborative CBR
  * Learning and knowledge acquisition for CBR knowledge containers
  * Analogical reasoning, and creative reasoning approaches based on CBR
  * CBR-related areas (e.g., corporate memories, decision support,
    information retrieval, knowledge discovery, data mining, software
    reuse and engineering redesign)
  * Lazy learning, instance-based learning, and case-based learning
  * Applications of CBR (e.g., customisation and personalisation,
    education, e-commerce, pattern recognition, image processing,
knowledge
    management, manufacturing, medicine, web technologies, planning and
    scheduling)
  * Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models
  * Methodologies for developing CBR applications

    Papers may be accepted for presentation as talks, as part of a
    panel, or as posters.

Proceedings:

    All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
    published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial
    Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).

Review Criteria:

    Submissions must be identified as either *research* or
    *application* papers and will be reviewed using criteria
    appropriate to their category. Review criteria for research papers
    will include scientific significance, originality, technical
    quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will
    include practical or economic significance, potential to lead to
    more powerful technology, technical quality, and clarity.

Important Dates:

    Submission Deadline: 22nd March 2002
    Notification of acceptance: 13th May 2002
    Camera ready copy due: 3rd June 2002

Submission Procedure:

    Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by the end of
    22nd March 2001.  The title page must include: name(s) of the
    author(s); name, address, phone and fax number, and email of the
    contact person; title and abstract of the paper; a set of
    keywords; a statement whether the submission is to be reviewed as
    a "research" paper or an "application" paper.

    Full papers and title pages may be submitted in either of two ways:

    1. Electronically, as a Postscript or PDF file submitted by FTP
       via the ECCBR'02 website
       (http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/submit.html).
       This is the preferred mode of submission.

    2. Electronically, as a Postscript or PDF file emailed to
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    Note: Since Springer's LNCS/LNAI series is now published in parallel
    in both paper and electronic formats all papers submitted to
    ECCBR'02 must be submitted in electronic format.

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 at
    http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

    All authors of accepted papers must transfer their copyrights to
    Springer.

Multiple Submission Policy:

    Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this
    fact on the title page. If a paper will appear in another
    conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ECCBR'02 before
    3rd May 2002.  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 (3rd June 2002).

Conference Information:

    All information regarding ECCBR'02 will be maintained at the
    conference website: http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/.

Conference Chairs:
  Susan Craw (The Robert Gordon University) [log in to unmask]
  Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen) [log in to unmask]

Local Arrangements:
  Nirmalie Wiratunga (The Robert Gordon University) [log in to unmask]

Industry Day Chair:
  Robert Milne (Intelligent Applications Limited) [log in to unmask]

Program Committee Members:
  Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory
  Robert Aarts, Nokia, Finland
  Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
  Ralph Bergmann, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  Enrico Blanzieri, Universita' di Torino, Italy
  Derek Bridge, University College, Cork, Ireland
  Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  Boi Faltings, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  Mehmet H. G÷ker, Kaidara Software Inc., USA
  Pedro A. Gonzalez Calero, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  Jacek Jarmulak, Ingenuity Inc, USA
  David Leake, Indiana University, USA
  Brian Lees, University of Paisley, UK
  Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
  Michel Manago, Kaidara, France
  David McSherry, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
  Bart Netten, TNO TPD, Netherlands
  Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer
    Sciences, Germany
  Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
  Luigi Portinale, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
  Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany
  Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
  Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Jerzy Surma, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
  Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Brigitte Trousse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
  Ian Watson, AI-CBR University of Aukland, New Zealand
  Stephan Wess, empolis knowledge management
  David C. Wilson, University College Dublin, Ireland
  Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, UK

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Professor Susan Craw
Head of School
School of Computing
The Robert Gordon University      Telephone +44 1224 262711
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