0 Temporal Abstractions and Case-Based Reasoning for Medical Course Data: Two Prognostic Applications R. Schmidt and R. Gierl University of Rostock, Germany 9.00-9.30 Local Learning Framework for Recognition of Lowercase Handwritten Characters J.-X. Dong, A. Krzyzak, and C.Y. Suen Concordia University, Canada ICDM 9.30-10.00 Are Case-Based Reasoning and Dissimilaritybased Pattern Recognition two Sides of the same Coin? P. Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences, Germany 9.30-10.00 Mirror Image Learning for Handwritten Numeral Recognition M. Shi, T. Wakabayahi, W. Ohyama, and F. Kimura Mie University, Japan ICDM 10.00