  This text analyses the papers accepted for the workshop "Reuse of designs: an
interdisciplinary cognitive approach". Several dimensions and questions
considered as important (by the authors and/or by us) are addressed: What about
the "interdisciplinary cognitive" character of the approaches adopted by the
authors? Is design indeed a domain where the use of CBR is particularly
suitable? Are there important distinctions between CBR and other approaches?
Which types of knowledge -other than cases- is being, or might be, used in CBR
systems? With respect to cases: are there different "types" of case and
different types of case use? which formats are adopted for their
representation? do cases have "components"? how are cases organised in the case
memory? Concerning their retrieval: which types of index are used? on which
types of relation is retrieval based? how does one retrieve only a selected
number of cases, i.e., how does one retrieve only the "best" cases? which
processes and strategies are used, by the system and by its user? Finally, some
important aspects of CBR system development are shortly discussed: should CBR
systems be assistance or autonomous systems? how can case knowledge be
"acquired"? what about the empirical evaluation of CBR systems? The conclusion
points out some lacking points: not much attention is paid to the user, and few
papers have indeed adopted an interdisciplinary cognitive approach.
