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In this paper, we look at case retrieval systems for product selection. Such systems are interactive. This places demands on the technology: customers must be able to specify their requirements in ways that are meaningful to them; and, the cases that are retrieved must be comprehensible in terms of the customer requirements. To meet these demands, we introduce to case retrieval the notions of similarity metrics with partially- ordered return types and of relations that express indifference between degrees of similarity.
This research was funded by Enterprise Ireland (grant number ST/98/024), with the support of Interactive Multimedia Systems, Dublin.
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Ferguson, A., Bridge, D. (2000). Partial Orders and Indifference Relations: Being Purposefully Vague in Case-Based Retrieval. In: Blanzieri, E., Portinale, L. (eds) Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. EWCBR 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1898. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44527-7_8
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