ICCBR 2019 Doctoral Consortium

Preface

This year marks the eleventh anniversary of the ICCBR Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC was designed to nurture PhD candidates by providing them with opportunities to obtain feedback on their research, future work plans, and career objectives from senior case-based reasoning (CBR) researchers and practitioners. We are proud to carry on the tradition with a cohort of ten doctoral students from seven di↵ erent countries.

PhD candidates who applied to the program submitted summaries of their

doctoral research. In their research summaries, they detailed the problems they are addressing, outlined their proposed research plans, and described progress to date. Accepted applicants were paired with mentors who helped them to refine their research summaries in light of reviewer feedback. The updated research summaries, which appear in this volume, were then orally presented at the IC

CBR DC on September 8-9, 2019 in Otzenhausen, Germany.

This year’s participants presented a broad array of ongoing CBR research.

Deepika Verma discussed the use of CBR to improve the classification of physical activities from body-worn sensor data. Glenn Forbes studied the monitoring of health conditions from sensors in Smart Homes. Christian Zeyen presented his work on interactive assistance for scientific workflow modeling. Christopher L. Bartlett explained his research on using prototypes to classify novel cases in microarray analysis. Anbarasu Sekar discussed how to exploit relationships among cases and the user’s feedback in conversational case-based recommender systems. Brian Schack presented three case base maintenance strategies beyond case deletion to improve the performance of CBR systems. J`erˆome Cerutti studied the problem of identifying and implementing actions to protect drinking water sources based on past experiences. Venkatsampath Raja Gogineni described the creation of autonomous explainable agents using case-based explanations, behavior adaptation, and casual understanding. Jakob Michael Schoenborn studied di↵ erent types of explanations used in explainable AI and how to select the best one for a particular user. Finally, Diana Sof`ıa Lora Ariza presented her work on dynamically adapting the di culty of a game to improve the player’s game experience.

We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation and the Artificial Intelligence Journal, which helped to defray the cost of student participation in the DC. We also thank all of the students, mentors, and program committee members who worked so hard to make the DC a success.

Students and Mentors

Christopher L. Bartlett

Mirjam Minor

J`erˆome Cerutti

Klaus-Dieter Altho↵

Glenn Forbes

Barry Smyth

Diana Sof`ıa Lora Ariza

Michael W. Floyd

State University of New York at Oswego, USA

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Laval University, Canada

University of Hildesheim / DFKI, Germany

Robert Gordon University, UK

University College Dublin, Ireland

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Knexus Research Corporation, USA

Venkatsampath Raja Gogineni Wright State University, USA

David W. Aha Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Brian Schack

Isabelle Bichindaritz

Indiana University, USA

State University of New York at Oswego, USA

Jakob Michael Schoenborn

David B. Leake

University of Hildesheim Germany

Indiana University, USA

Anbarasu Sekar

Jean Lieber

Deepika Verma

Anders Kofod-Petersen

Christian Zeyen

Antonio A. S´anchez-Ruiz

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

LORIA, France

NTNU, Norway

NTNU, Norway

University of Trier, Germany

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Antonio A. S´anchez-Ruiz

Michael W. Floyd Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Knexus Research Corporation, USA

Program Committee

Agnar Aamodt Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

David Aha Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Klaus-Dieter Altho↵ DFKI / University of Hildesheim, Germany

Isabelle Bichindaritz State University of New York at Oswego, USA

Sarah Jane Delany Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

Anders Kofod-Petersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

David Leake Indiana University, USA

Jean Lieber LORIA INRIA Lorraine, France

Mirjam Minor Goethe University, Germany

Stefania Montani Universita Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Hector Munoz-Avila Lehigh University, USA

Luigi Portinale Universita Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Barry Smyth University College Dublin, Ireland

Nirmalie Wiratunga Robert Gordon University, UK

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