The twenty-ninth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) begins today, Monday, September 13. From today until Thursday, September 16, researchers and practitioners will gather at the most important event of the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) community worldwide, to present the latest results of their work and discuss future lines of research in this area.

The conference is organized by the BISITE Research Group of the University of Salamanca, the IoT Digital Innovation Hub, the AIR Institute, Knexus Research and Universidad Complutense Madrid. Two major figures in this field will take part: Kerstin Bach, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, who will present her research entitled “Development of Digital Health Interventions using Case-Based Reasoning” and Santiago Ontañón Villar, Google Research and Drexel University, with his work “Compositional Generalization in Machine Learning and CBR”.

Over four days, attendees will have the opportunity to attend interesting lectures, workshops and other activities intended to enrich research within the CBR community.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.