this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second international conference on case-based reasoning, iccbr-97, held in providence, ri, usa, in july 1997.the volume presents 39 revised full scientific papers selected from a total of 102 submissions; also included are 20 revised application papers. among the topics covered are representation and formalization, indexing and retrieval, adaptation, learning, integrated approaches, creative reasoning, cbr and uncertainty. this collection of papers is a comprehensive documentation of the state of the art in cbr research and development.