INFORMATION
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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
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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
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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
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Submissions due: --April 21, 2021-- May 5, 2021
Workshop Proposal Submissions: April 2, 2021
Workshop Proposal Notifications: April 9, 2021
Notifications: --May 21, 2021-- June 4, 2021
Camera ready: --June 21, 2021-- July 1, 2021
Conference starts: September 13, 2021


REVIEW CRITERIA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)