A connectionist approach for similarity assessment in case-based reasoning systems

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 237-253

  Gupta, Kalyan Moy ^a,b   Montazemi, Ali Reza ^b  

^a Atlantis Aerospace Corporation   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive decision support systems; Case based reasoning; Connectionist networks; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DECISION MAKING; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CASE BASED REASONING (CBR) SYSTEMS; CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS; SYMBOLIC RETRIEVAL FUNCTIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031117982     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(96)00063-2     Document Type: Article

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