From Pbhogar@mail.vt.edu Wed Jul 13 04:44:28 EDT 1994 Article: 1679 of comp.ai.shells Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai.shells:1679 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!NewsWatcher!user From: Pbhogar@mail.vt.edu (Prabhakar Bhogaraju) Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells Subject: Re: Case Based Reasoning development tools/software ? Followup-To: comp.ai.shells Date: 12 Jul 1994 20:47:47 GMT Organization: VPI&SU Lines: 71 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <2vuetv$jg9@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.173.54.89 In article <2vuetv$jg9@galaxy.ucr.edu>, btabbara@watserv.ucr.edu (Bassam Tabbara) wrote: > > I am currently attempting to apply Case Based reasoning as the main learning > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > paradigm for machine vision applications. Does anybody know of any software > (commercial and/or educational or institutional available on ftp sites) that > I can use for CBR development ? > > Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > btabbara@watnxt03.ucr.edu > tbassam@ucrengr.ucr.edu This article was on the net a month or so ago. ------------------------------ Paul Harmon's "Case-Based Reasoning III", published in Intelligent Software Strategies, VIII, 1, in 1992 seems to be the only survey on CBR-Tools in English. There, four shells are introduced: ART-IM/CBR Express (Inference,Tel.2133220200), ESTEEM (Esteem Inc., Tel. 317 478 3955), Induce-It (Inductive Solutions Inc., Tel. 212-945-0630) and ReMind (Cognitive Systems Inc., Tel. 617 742 7227). Unfortunately, Harmon did not have the opportunity to gain practical experience with all of them. Meanwhile, Induce-It was renamed to Case Power, and the price increased slightly from 900$ to 3500$ (MS-EXCEL needed in addition). Recently, several other companies claimed to offer CBR tools, too: Software Artistry (Tel. 317 876 3042) offers Expert Advisor 2.2 for help-desk applications. The Haley Enterprise (Tel. 412 741 6420) offers The Easy Reasoner, a CBR library for their Eclipse programming environment. Acknosoft (Tel. 415 326 2460) offers KATE-CBR inside their KATE Toolbox for reasoning from cases (including induction). Isoft (Tel. France 1 69 41 27 77) offers ReCall, a dedicated CBR shell that runs on Unix/Motif. I reviewed ART-IM/CBR Express, ESTEEM, and ReMind for two German magazines. The collected reports including feature comparison tables are published as a research report of the University of Freiburg - but they are written in German. Anyone who does not mind can get a Postscript file by mail. Additionally, there was an effort to implement a business consultation system for a classification task using these shells. A paper for the European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (EWCBR- 93) on that gives also a qualitative assessment of the three shells mentioned above for the respective task. Again, this paper (this time written in English) can be mailed as a Postscript file. Thomas schult@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de --------- Hope this is useful. Prabhakar Bhogaraju, Information systems and Insect studies lab, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. VA 24061. Tel # 703-231-9116. Fax : 703-231-9131.