Elsevier, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2-3(13), p. 159-165
DOI: 10.1016/s0950-7051(00)00057-5
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVI, p. 191-203
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-0745-3_13
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In this paper, we present a case-based reasoning (CBR) approach solving educational time-tabling problems. Following the basic idea behind CBR, the solutions of previously solved problems are employed to aid finding the solutions for new problems. A list of feature-value pairs is insufficient to represent all the necessary information. We show that attribute graphs can represent more information and thus can help to retrieve re-usable cases that have similar structures to the new problems. The case base is organised as a decision tree to store the attribute graphs of solved problems hierarchically. An example is given to illustrate the retrieval, re-use and adaptation of structured cases. The results from our experiments show the effectiveness of the retrieval and adaptation in the proposed method.