In the course of this year's International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-09) in Seattle, Washington, USA the international Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) took place for the second time. Within the contest the contestants competed in two disciplines: the Compulsory Task in which the teams had to create a recipe that met individual constraints and the Menu Challenge that aimed at creating a whole menu containing a starter, a main dish and a dessert according to a set of given specifications. The individual results were evaluated  by a jury of researches in the field of CBR and local chef Kathy Hanken.

Five teams from the USA, France, Spain, and Germany qualified for the final round. The contestants were evaluated according to three aspects: the culinary quality of the created recipes, the technical quality of the competitors' systems and the scientific originality of the individual solutions. CookIIS, the candidate of the IIS research group, achieved the highest score in all three categories and was thus awarded the title "World Champion of the 2nd Computer Cooking Contest".

The next round of the Computer Cooking Contest will be held in the course of the ICCBR 2010 in Alessandria, Italy. Students who wish to contribute to the development of next year's candidate via project work or final theses should contact Professor Klaus-Dieter Althoff for further information.

This year’s edition of the European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR08) in Trier, Germany featured the 1st Computer Cooking Contest (CCC). The contest was organized in three challenges: the Compulsory Task in which each team had to provide a recipe that met individual constraints, the Negation Challenge in which given ingredients had to be either left out or replaced and the Menu Challenge that aimed at creating a whole menu containing a starter, a main dish and a dessert according to given specifications.
During the three challenges the teams’ results were rated by a jury of researches in the field of CBR and award-wining Chef Wolfgang Becker from Trier. Six European teams from Spain, Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, and France qualified for the finals in Trier. For Germany a team of students and researchers from the IIS-Lab took part and won the title of the European Champion in the Menu Challenge. Their System can be accessed here.

In conjunction with the European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR08), which is taking place in Trier, Germany, the following workshops will be offered: CBR in the Health Sciences, Knowledge Discovery & Similarity, Case-Based Reasoning & Context-Awareness as well as Uncertainty & Knowledge Discovery. The Calls for Workshop Papers are now online!