On Reasoning within Different Domains in the Past, Present and Future

The foundations and technologies of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) has emerged from academic projects to commercial used applications which are supporting everyday life. Everything changes in the long term which includes planning, modeling and developing reasoning software due to new aspects such as big data and various new services provided by cloud computing. Maintaining a balance between achieving the requirements and maximizing the return on investment of a software application can be seen as a difficult task. In this paper we will present the evolution of CBR software over the past years in order to gain an understanding concerning some crucial points when creating a CBR system.