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Preface

The Doctoral Consortium proceedings contains the research summaries that were
presented at the 9th Annual ICCBR 2017 Doctoral Consortium which was held
on Monday June 26th 2017 in Trondheim, Norway. There were 9 accepted sub-
missions consisting of (i) an application cover page, (ii) a research summary, (iii)
a curriculum vitae and (iv) a letter of support from the student’s advisor.
    The objectives, progress, plans and references in each research summary were
progressively refined according to feedback from two PC members. Feedback was
organised into three broad areas: general outlook in terms of research hypothesis
and proposed methodology; detailed comments specific to the student’s project;
and finally advice for the talk presentation.
    Participants in the Doctoral Consortium were assigned a mentor. A face-
to-face pre-event meeting opportunity, held on June 25th, enabled all student-
mentor pairs to meet in person, and to refine their presentations. The evening
ended with the DC participants and mentors meeting with other conference
participants for dinner.
    On June 26th, the formal program started with an invited talk by Dr Odd-
Erik Gundersen from NTNU. The next sessions featured 20-minute talks pre-
sented by the nine doctoral students on their research summary. Mentors had the
responsibility of leading the question and answer session following each mentee
presentation. A final wrap-up session concluded the day. The presentations cov-
ered a wide range of CBR topics including similarity and retrieval, process-
oriented CBR, case-based maintenance, CBR and big data. Healthcare as well
as industrial applications were described.
    Many people participated in making the DC event a success. We wish to
thank all our PC members who provided important and useful guidance to DC
students, either as reviewers or as mentors. We are very grateful for the generous
support of the National Science Foundation which helped fund travel costs for
our students from the US.
    Finally thank you to all our DC participants. We had a returning PhD stu-
dent participant which was a valuable indicator that the DC at ICCBR is a useful
and beneficial event. We trust that the ICCBR-17 DC enhanced your interest
in studying CBR and that the welcome and support from the CBR community
has reinforced your interest in this field for the future.


June, 2017                                                       Stefania Montani
                                                                  Jonathan Rubin
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Program Chairs
Stefania Montani        University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Jonathan Rubin          Philips Research North America


Program Committee
Agnar Aamodt            NTNU, Norway
Ralph Bergmann          University of Trier, Germany
Isabelle Bichinaritz    State University of New York at Oswego, USA
Alexandra Coman         NRC/Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Klaus-Dieter Kalthoff   DFKI/University of Hildesheim, Germany
Michael Floyd           Knexus Research, USA
Stelios Kapetanakis     University of Brighton, USA
Luc Lamontagne          Laval University, Canada
David Leake             Indiana University, USA
Cindy Marling           Ohio University, USA
Luigi Portinale         University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy