Fish and Sink
An Anytime-Algorithm to Retrieve
Adequate Cases

Jrg Walter Schaaf

GMD - Artificial Intelligence Research Division
e-mail:Joerg.Schaaf@gmd.de
Sankt Augustin, Germany


Abstract. The main idea of the presented approach is based on the
observation that identical data can be interpreted and used differently
in different situations and by different persons. Data is considered individually 
and according to the actual situation. This phenomena can
be interpreted as regarding different aspects. Here, the notion of aspects
is applied to cases in the area of Cased Based Reasoning. This requires
special representation of cases, special structure of case bases and a new
algorithm to work on the defined structure. In this paper we will focus
on description and discussion of an anytime algorithm that searches for
cases regarding the relevant aspects.
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