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Case-Based Reasoning

I was a Research Associate in the department of Computer Science, University of Wales Aberystwyth (where I'd studied for my degree) between 1992-1999. One of my research interests was Case-Based Reasoning, which is a branch of Artificial Intelligence. This work was the basis for my M.Phil.

The concept of Case-Based Reasoning is based on the analogy of the ability of humans to find solutions to problems by adapting old solutions to apply them to new situations. A simple example might be taking a cooking-recipe which contains meat and substituting some of the ingredients to turn it into a vegetarian recipe.

I wrote a general purpose tool for doing CBR called CASPIAN (an acronym of "CASe Parser by IAN"). From Caspian a new application was developed called Wayland which is used in Aluminium die-casting to find suitable machine-parameters for setting up pressure die-casting machines.

I co-authored a number of papers with Professor C. J. Price on the subject of Case-Based Reasoning and related topics. I was also the principal Research Associate on the QPAC project.

Some of this software of mine is available from the University for free.

To find out more, click on the following link:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/mbsg/cbrprojects/

Please note that I no longer support Caspian, Wayland or the QPAC software.