ICCBR 2025

Call For Papers

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. We welcome contributions from participants representing all types of affiliations (academic, industry, government) and from all communities applying CBR or conducting relevant research.

Conference submissions are not limited to papers on the conference theme, though the organizers are especially interested in papers that address the theme.

Generative AI and CBR

Generative AI and CBR is this year’s conference theme, directing the community’s attention to the growing pervasion of Generative AI in workplaces, homes, and societies, affecting us all. This year we pose the question:

“What are some roles CBR can play to address some of the challenges stemming from Generative AI’s growing pervasion in our society?”

We encourage submissions and participation from members of the AI and CBR communities—whether they are researchers, policymakers, or practitioners—on the synergistic challenges between Generative AI and CBR. We look forward to a variety of submissions, including position papers, road mapping proposals, as well as traditional basic or applied research papers.

Topics of Interest

In addition to the emphasized areas above, we welcome submissions relevant to all areas of CBR, 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 and Related Fields

  • ‘Modern’ CBR
  • Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning
  • Cloud CBR
  • Counterfactual learning and reasoning
  • 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 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 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

Please refer to the Key Dates page for submission deadlines.

Review Criteria

Each submission must be identified as presenting (1) theoretical/methodological research, (2) applied research/emerging applications, (3) a deployed application, and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to its category, (4) Literature surveys, or (5) Challenge papers. 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 promise for application deployment;
  3. Deployed application: Demonstrated practical significance; originality; treatment of issues of engineering, management, and user acceptance; and clarity;
  4. Literature survey: Well-developed body of research, inclusion of works from several authors, significance, clarity, open research questions.

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

Authors must submit a full paper by the conference paper submission deadline, formatted according to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers (submitted and final) should be no longer than 15 pages including references. Please submit papers using the EasyChair conference management system.

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 2025.

Author Registration Policy

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 video presentations.

Publication

Conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.