Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2005, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in August 2005. These papers address foundational, theoretical and research aspects of case-based reasoning, as well as advanced applications.

Invited Talks.- The Virtue of Reward: Performance, Reinforcement and Discovery in Case-Based Reasoning.- Learning to Optimize Plan Execution in Information Agents.- Cased-Based Reasoning by Human Experts.- Scientific Papers.- Learning to Win: Case-Based Plan Selection in a Real-Time Strategy Game.- An Ensemble of Case-Based Classifiers for High-Dimensional Biological Domains.- Language Games: Solving the Vocabulary Problem in Multi-Case-Base Reasoning.- Evaluation and Monitoring of the Air-Sea Interaction Using a CBR-Agents Approach.- A Comparative Analysis of Query Similarity Metrics for Community-Based Web Search.- A Case-Based Approach for Indoor Location.- P2P Case Retrieval with an Unspecified Ontology.- Autonomous Internal Control System for Small to Medium Firms.- The Application of a Case-Based Reasoning System to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.- Reasoning with Textual Cases.- Using Ensembles of Binary Case-Based Reasoners.- Transfer in Visual Case-Based Problem Solving.- Generating Estimates of Classification Confidence for a Case-Based Spam Filter.- Improving Gene Selection in Microarray Data Analysis Using Fuzzy Patterns Inside a CBR System.- CBR for State Value Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning.- Using CBR to Select Solution Strategies in Constraint Programming.- Case-Based Art.- Supporting Conversation Variability in COBBER Using Causal Loops.- Opportunities for CBR in Learning by Doing.- Navigating Through Case Base Competence.- A Knowledge-Intensive Method for Conversational CBR.- Re-using Implicit Knowledge in Short-Term Information Profiles for Context-Sensitive Tasks.- Acquiring Similarity Cases for Classification Problems.- A Live-User Evaluation of Incremental Dynamic Critiquing.- Case Based Representation and Retrieval withTime Dependent Features.- The Best Way to Instil Confidence Is by Being Right.- Cooperative Reuse for Compositional Cases in Multi-agent Systems.- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Exploration and Accumulated Experience in Automatic Case Elicitation.- HYREC: A Hybrid Recommendation System for E-Commerce.- Extending jCOLIBRI for Textual CBR.- Critiquing with Confidence.- Mapping Goals and Kinds of Explanations to the Knowledge Containers of Case-Based Reasoning Systems.- An Approach for Temporal Case-Based Reasoning: Episode-Based Reasoning.- How to Combine CBR and RBR for Diagnosing Multiple Medical Disorder Cases.- Case-Based Student Modeling Using Concept Maps.- Learning Similarity Measures: A Formal View Based on a Generalized CBR Model.- Knowledge-Rich Similarity-Based Classification.- Autonomous Creation of New Situation Cases in Structured Continuous Domains.- Retrieval and Configuration of Life Insurance Policies.- Analogical and Case-Based Reasoning for Predicting Satellite Task Schedulability.- Case Adaptation by Segment Replanning for Case-Based Planning Systems.- Selecting the Best Units in a Fleet: Performance Prediction from Equipment Peers.- CCBR–Driven Business Process Evolution.- CBR for Modeling Complex Systems.- CBE-Conveyor: A Case-Based Reasoning System to Assist Engineers in Designing Conveyor Systems.

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