Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development: 28th International Conference, ICCBR 2020, Salamanca, Spain, June 8–12, 2020, Proceedings

CBR applications have been deployed in a wide range of sectors, for example from pharmaceuticals to defence and aerospace, and from the Internet of Things and transportation, to poetry and music generation. However, a majority of these have been built using monolithic architectures that impose size and complexity constraints. As such, these applications have a barrier to adopting new technologies and remain prohibitively expensive in both time and cost, because changes in frameworks or languages affect the application directly. To address this challenge, we introduce a distributed and highly scalable generic CBR system, Clood, which is based on a microservices architecture. This splits the application into a set of smaller, interconnected services that scale to meet varying demands. Microservices are cloud-native architectures and, with the rapid increase in cloud-computing adoption, it is timely for the CBR community to have access to such a framework.