Ingredients for Developing a Case-Based Reasoning Methodology

Building a methodology for developing case-based reasoning (CBR) applications is an important goal currently addressed by CBR researchers and practitioners. Since CBR application development is a special kind of software development, building a CBR methodology can certainly be viewed as a special kind of software engineering research and development activity. This paper presents a perspective of how software process modeling, which is a recent approach in software engineering, can be used for building a case-based reasoning methodology. We analyse existing activities in CBR methodology construction and show how they can be used as ingredients in a methodology that is built using software process modeling.