Designing Integrated CBR Systems

Most existing CBR systems focus on one particular issue, e.g. a retrieval or a reuse method. Therefore no unusual questions of system architecture arise. If however many methods are to be combined, this will lead to problems. FABEL PROTOTYPE is the only known CBR system combining a bunch of quite diverse methods. Therefore, this part of the book on integrated systems is predominantly devoted to FABEL PROTOTYPE. In the present chapter, we deal with questions of knowledge acquisition for complex CBR systems and with general problems of CBR architectures and we illustrate the FABEL PROTOTYPE solution in a non-technical overview.