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Messag. Cedex 9, France
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Société AcknoSoft 58A, rue du Dessous des Berges
F - 75013 Paris, France

Michel MANAGO
Société AcknoSoft 58A, rue du Dessous des Berges
F - 75013 Paris, France

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LERENARD, J.& CONRUYT, N., 1994. On the representation of observational data used for classification and identification of natural objects, IFCS'93, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, pp. 308- 315.

MANAGO, M., ALTHOFF, K.D., AURIOL, E., TRAPHÖNER, R., WESS, S., CONRUYT, N., & MAURER, F., 1993. Induction and reasoning from cases, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (EWCBR-93), RICHTER, M.M., WESS, S., ALTHOFF, K.D. & MAURER,F. (Eds.), Vol II, Kaiserslautern, Springer Verlag, 1994.

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SUBRAMANIAN, D., 1990. A theory of justified reformulation. Change of Representation and inductive Bias. BENJAMIN, D. (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, pp. 147-167.

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Jacques LE RENARD& Claude LÉVI
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Laboratoire de Biologie des Invertébrés Marins
et Malacologie, CNRS URA 699
55, rue de Buffon, F - 75005 Paris, France

Noël CONRUYT
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Laboratoire de Biologie des Invertébrés Marins
et Malacologie, CNRS URA 699,
55, rue de Buffon, F - 75005 Paris, France
&
IREMIA, Université de la Réunion
15, av. René Cassin, BP 7151
F - 97715 Saint-Denis