Public administration project selection using case-based reasoning

Abstract

European Union (EU) member countries design and implement different projects under programs designed by the union to improve standards of member countries. One of these programs is regional policy program. Thousands of projects have been funded under this program. Some of these projects are developed in collaboration between countries and some by a single country. The issues addressed by different projects are sometimes similar, for instance, improving quality of life for the elderly people. Q-Ageing and design led-innovation for active aging are two projects that focus on this issue. Even though these projects were designed independently and used different methods the main goal of both projects is to improve the quality of life for the elderly people. In this paper, case-based reasoning method is proposed for EU member countries to selects projects that has already been designed to address similar issues. Text parser and Chouquet fuzzy integral are used in the method for comparing cases in order to choose best matching cases. Application example was also performed to demonstrate.