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ICCBR 2021: 29th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2021)

University of Salamanca

Salamanca, Spain, September 13-16, 2021

Conference website	https://iccbr21.org
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccbr2021
Submission deadline	May 5, 2021

Topics: case based reasoning analogical reasoning explainable ai cognitive modeling

INFORMATION

ICCBR 2021 (https://iccbr21.org/) September 13th to 16th, 2021, in Salamanca, Spain, a UNESCO World Heritage site and past European Capital of Culture.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) is the premier, annual meeting of the case-based reasoning (CBR) community and the leading international conference on this topic. The CBR community welcomes contributions from participants representing all types of affiliations (e.g., academic, industry, government) and from all communities applying CBR or conducting relevant research.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome submissions from all areas of case-based reasoning, including (but not limited to):

FOUNDATIONS

Case authoring, elicitation, and visualization
Case representation
Case retrieval, indexing, and similarity measures
Case reuse, adaptation, revision, and combination
Case-base maintenance
Confidence and uncertainty
Evaluation, simulation, and prediction
Explanations
Similarity metric and adaptation knowledge learning

CBR TASKS

CBR planning
Conversational CBR
Design
Distributed CBR
Recommender systems
Social CBR
Temporal reasoning (e.g., reasoning with traces, time series)
Textual CBR
User modeling and personalization
Workflow management and process-oriented CBR

CBR AND RELATED FIELDS

Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning
Cloud CBR
Explainable AI (XAI)
Intelligent agents, perception, and action
Internet of things
Data mining and big data
Machine learning (e.g., deep, instance-based/lazy, relational)
Natural language processing and information retrieval
Robotics and human-robot interaction
Web CBR

CBR SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

AI for the Social Good
CBR architectures and frameworks
Cooking
Diagnosis, technical support
E-science, cyberinfrastructure, scientific workflows
Economics, finance
Education (including distance learning)
Energy, logistics, traffic
Game AI
Knowledge and experience management
Medicine, health
Science, engineering

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: ~~April 21, 2021~~ May 5, 2021
Workshop Proposal Submissions: April 2, 2021
Workshop Proposal Notifications: April 9, 2021
Workshop papers recommended deadline: June 11, 2021
Workshop papers recommended notification date: July 2, 2021
CRC Workshop Papers: July 16, 2021
Notifications: ~~May 21, 2021~~ June 4, 2021
Camera ready: ~~June 21, 2021~~ July 1, 2021
Conference starts: September 13, 2021

REVIEW CRITERIA

Each submission must be identified as presenting (1) theoretical/methodological research, (2) applied research/emerging applications, or (3) a deployed application, and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to its category. These criteria are as follows:

1. Theoretical/methodological research: Scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity

2. Applied research/emerging applications: Significance for theoretical research or application deployment; originality; technical quality; and clarity

3. Deployed application: Demonstrated practical significance; originality; treatment of issues of engineering, management, and user acceptance; and clarity

Papers will be considered for poster or oral presentation based on the reviews and the most effective mode of presenting it to the ICCBR audience.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Authors must submit a full paper by the conference paper submission deadline, formatted according to Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use either the LaTeX (also available in Overleaf ) or Word templates. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Papers (submitted and final) should be no longer than 15 pages including references. Please submit papers using the EasyChair conference management system, found at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iccbr2021

In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form after acceptance of a paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Multiple Submission Policy

Papers submitted to other conferences must state this fact as a footnote on page 1, and please also notify the program co-chairs by email. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ICCBR 2021.

AUTHOR REGISTRATION POLICY

For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the camera-ready copy deadline. Papers must be presented by one of the authors at the conference live. There will be no pre-recorded video presentations.

PUBLICATION

Proceedings will be published by Springer in the book series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Previous ICCBR proceedings can be found on SpringerLink: https://link.springer.com/conference/iccbr

WORKSHOPS

We are pleased to announce the following workshops will be held at ICCBR 2021:

Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games using Pure or Hybrid CBR Approaches
CBRDL: Case-Based Reasoning and Deep Learning
XCBR: Case-Based Reasoning for the Explanation of Intelligent Systems (https://gaia.fdi.ucm.es/events/xcbr/)
CBR in the Health Sciences
CBR Demonstrations and Showcases (https://sites.google.com/view/cbr-demos-showcases)

COMMITTEE

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Antonio Sánchez-Ruiz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Michael W. Floyd, Knexus Research Corporation, USA

LOCAL CHAIR

Juan Manuel Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

Fernando de la Prieta, University of Salamanca, Spain

WORKSHOPS CHAIRS

Hayley Borck, Honeywell, USA

Viktor Eisenstadt, DFKI, Germany

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS

Stewart Massie, The Robert Gordon University, UK

Stelios Kapetanakis, University of Brighton, UK

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Belen Díaz-Agudo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

David Leake, Indiana University, USA

Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland

Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA

Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, DFKI / University of Hildesheim (Germany)

Kerstin Bach, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier (Germany)

Isabelle Bichindaritz, State University of New York at Oswego (USA)

Hayley Borck, Honeywell (USA)

Derek Bridge, University College Cork (Ireland)

Sutanu Chakraborti, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)

Alexandra Coman, Capital One (USA)

Dustin Dannenhauer, Parallax Advanced Research (USA)

Sarah Jane Delany, Technological University Dublin (Ireland)

Viktor Eisenstadt, DFKI (Germany)

Peter Funk, Mälardalen University (Sweden)

Mehmet H Göker, ServiceNow (USA)

Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Odd Erik Gundersen, NTNU, Department of Computer Science (Norway)

Vahid Jalali, Indiana University Bloomington (USA)

Stelios Kapetanakis, University of Brighton (UK)

Mark Keane, University College Dublin (Ireland)

Joseph Kendall-Morwick, Missouri Western State University (USA)

Luc Lamontagne, Laval University (Canada)

Jean Lieber, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine (France)

Stewart Massie, The Robert Gordon University (UK)

Mirjam Minor, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)

Stefania Montani, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale (Italy)

Emmanuel Nauer, LORIA (France)

Santiago Ontañón, Drexel University (USA)

Enric Plaza, IIIA-CSIC (Spain)

Luigi Portinale, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro" (Italy)

Juan Recio-Garcia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Pascal Reuss, University of Hildesheim (Germany)

Jonathan Rubin, Philips Research North America (USA)

Frode Sørmo, Verdande Technology (Norway)

Ian Watson, University of Auckland (New Zealand)

David Wilson, UNC Charlotte (USA)