An improved case-based reasoning approach for sustainable rural development applied to strategic responses

Sustainable development has become a worldwide consensus in recent years. It has become increasingly important to study how to make effective management decisions in rural areas to achieve sustainable development. In this paper, we develop a new approach to strategic responses for sustainable rural development by using case-based reasoning (CBR), the bi-direction Choquet integral (BDCI), and the Shapley index (SI). First, to deal with the complexity of sustainable rural development, we develop an ontology-based sustainable rural development domain model. Second, we propose a case retrieval algorithm based on BDCI to improve the case retrieval method used in CBR to solve the problem of the relationship between the features. Third, we propose a case reuse method that is inspired by SI, in which each solution is evaluated relative to its value, and the implementation step for the response strategy is determined based on its priority. The proposed strategy response method for sustainable rural development is demonstrated through a case study and its effectiveness is demonstrated empirically.