Similarity and Distance in Case Based Reasoning

Issue title: Concurrency Specification and Programming (CS&P'2000)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Burkhard, Hans-Dieter

Affiliations: Institute of Informatics, Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Geramny

Abstract: Notions of similarity and distance play an important role in informatics. Different disciplines have developed their own treatment of related measures. We consider this problem under the viewpoint of Case Based Reasoning. While distance and similarity can be considered to be formally equivalent, there exist some differences concerning their intuitive use which have impact to the composition of global measures from local ones.

Keywords: similarity, distance, case based reasoning, retrieval

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 47, no. 3-4, pp. 201-215, 2001