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GWEM 2003
German Workshop on Experience Management

Proceedings of the Workshop on
Experience Management

Luzern, April 2-4, 2003.

Markus Nick
Klaus-Dieter Althoff

Objectives & Contents of GWEM2003

The objective of this workshop is to provide an inter-disciplinary forum, in which scientists and practitioners can exchange new ideas and applications on Experience Management (EM). Contributions on practical applications are just as welcome as contributions on current research and research results.

What is the role of Experience Management within Knowledge Management?
Whereas knowledge management (KM) generally deals with the activities regarding collection from different sources (documents, data, experts, etc.), structuring, documenting, refinement/improvement, evaluation, and distribution of knowledge and its objectives, the relatively new field of EM focuses, in particular, on exemplary knowledge (e.g., in the form of cases) and also looks at the methods and technologies that are suitable for that. The main focus here is on the development, operation, maintenance, evaluation, and integration of Experience Based Information Systems (EbIS), that is information systems that contain exemplary knowledge, support EM and all the necessary processes.

The "ingredients" for EM/EbIS come from various areas such as Experience Factory (e.g., with regard to embedding an EM system into the knowledge-relevant processes in a company), ontologies (e.g., as a basis for the domain model respectively vocabulary), data mining and text mining (e.g., on the analysis of existing data and documents), as well as - particularly - Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). It has been shown that CBR is suitable as a principle and methodology for EM, and a technology for supporting EbIS.

Proceedings. These online proccedings contain longer versions of selected papers from the workshop (short versions can be found in the respective LNI Proceedings of the Second Conference on Professional Knowledge Management). The complete workshop program can be found at http://wm2003.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/workshop/w06/.

Table of Contents

1. Evaluation of two Strategies for Case-Based Diagnosis handling Multiple Faults
   Martin Atzmüller, Joachim Baumeister, Frank Puppe
2. Case-Based Decision Support and Experience Management for Ultrasonography
   Ziad El Balaa, Ralph Traphöner
3. On the Relations between Structural Case-Based Reasoning and Ontology-based Knowledge Management
   Ralph Bergmann, Martin Schaaf
4. Building an Experience Factory for a Model-based Risk Analysis Framework
   Chingwoei Gan, Eric Scharf
5. Case-Based Reuse of Software Examplets
   Markus Grabert, Derek Bridge
6. Experience Management within Project Management Processes
   Maya Kaner, Reuven Karni
7. Investigating different Methods for efficient Retrieval of Generalized Cases
   Rainer Maximini, Alexander Tartakovski, Ralph Bergmann
8. Developing maintainable CBR Systems: Applying SIAM to empolis orenge
   Thomas Roth-Berghofer
9. Case-Based Adaptation in Medicine Focusing on Hypothyroidism
   Rainer Schmidt, Olga Vorobieva, Lothar Gierl