Maintenance of distributed case-based reasoning systems in a multi-agent system∗

Abstract. In many knowledge-based systems the used knowledge is distributed among several knowledge sources. Knowledge maintenance of such systems has several challenges to be met. This paper gives a short overview of a maintenance approach using so-called Case Factories to maintain knowledge sources and con-sidering the dependencies between these sources. Furthermore we present a con-cept how our maintenance approach can be applied to a multi-agent system with several case-based reasoning systems.