Case-Based Reasoning Tool

案例式推理 (Case-Based Reasoning, CBR) 是知識表達的一種新方法， 最主要就是利用先前的經驗來解決問題。 在 CBR 中， 知識是以過去的案例來表示。 而需要解決類似問題時， 便使用這些經驗來引導推理。
簡單地說, Case-Based Reasoning 就是：

人類推理的過程
推理過程的表達
在應用程序發展上，解決問題的一種方法論
如果您總是搞不清楚前向推理(forward chaining)，后向推理(backward chaining)， goal-directed reasoning， certainty factors 這些名詞。而您的領域知識又很難用 if-then 的規則方式表達， 但卻有大量的案例足以取樣，則用 CBR的方式來解決問題，應是不錯的選擇。

CBR-Works

"Just think of everything you'd want a CBR

tool to do and CBR-Works does it!"

Dr. Ian Watson, Director AI-CBR

Most companies collect and file their data in databases or in huge filing cabinets.

Yet they do not use this valuable source of information to its full potential and improve

their services. CBR-Works opens this source of knowledge about your products and

projects and makes it available to your employees, customers, and suppliers - online,

on CD-ROM, or on the Intranet.

A person, who knows what to search for will find it.
A person, who does not know will become lost!

CBR-Works stands for a whole product line of development tools for the acquisition, processing, and distribution of information. CBR-Works lets your customers get help from Virtual Assistants.

CBR-Works actively supporting users as they search databases, letting your existing databases become intelligent support systems and knowledge bases. Information garnered through the search process is modeled and maintained in a knowledge model.
With easily formulated queries, CBR-Works delivers precise and meaningful answers. As an experienced expert, your system knows background information and relationships. Even when these relationships are not expressed during a query, they are used during searches and are reflected in the quality of the answers.
You can observe the intelligent behavior of such systems by looking at the alternatives suggested from searches. With conventional database systems, how good the search results are greatly depends on the user's knowledge of the system. CBR-Works quickly and reliably finds the best solution for a problem, even for the nonexpert.
Application Areas

The CBR-Works product family is outstanding in the following application areas:

New Media / Internet

Used cars or last-minute travel
Brokerage of real estate
Product Catalogs
Search for optional or additional parts
Electronic Sales Assistants
Mixtures and recipes
Industry / Intranet

Known problems from the past.
Knowledge bases
Spare-parts catalogs
Drivers and Patches
Development Tools

CBR-Works offers a set of software development tools for the implementation

and maintenance of such applications. The basic components are:

CBR-Works for Professionals
Development environment for the implementation and maintenance of applications.
CBR-Works for You
Run-time version for consulting local networks.
CBR-Works Online
WWW-server for Internet and Intranet access.
CBR-Sells
"Lean" version to embed CBR technology as middleware, for example,???????????????????? product catalogs on a CD-ROM.
CBR-Answers
Intelligent document retrieval.
CBR-Works offers quick and easy access to the technology of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). The domain-specific knowledge model describes concepts, similarities among them, and further relations of the application domain to allow use of a corporation's information assets.

CBR-Works is based on an object-oriented Client-Server architecture and is applicable to CD-ROM, and to the Intra-, Extra-, and Internet. The Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), developed in Java, help your browser achieve comfortable user interfaces. CBR-Works is compatible with all common operating systems and databases, and is easy to integrate into existing applications.

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