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Analogy researchers do not often examine gesture, and gesture researchers do not often borrow ideas from the study of analogy. One borrowable idea from the world of analogy is the importance of distinguishing between attributes and relations. Gentner (, ) observed that some metaphors highlight attributes and others highlight relations, and called the latter analogies. Mirroring this logic, we o...

Analogy is an inductive mechanism based on structured comparisons of mental representations. It is an important special case of role-based relational reasoning, in which inferences are generated on the basis of patterns of relational roles. Analogical reasoning is a complex process involving retrieval of structured knowledge from long-term memory, representing and manipulating role-filler bindi...

Theorists have often emphasized the role of analogy in creativity, particular in scientific or intellectual contexts. But in Boden’s model, creative processes are assumed to be mediated by acts of exploration and transformation. There is a need to understand how these two perspectives fit together and to clarify whether analogy is mediated by transformation, exploration, or both of those proces...

Many mathematical proofs are hard to generate for humans and even harder for automated theorem provers. Classical techniques of automated theorem proving involve the application of basic rules, of built-in special procedures, or of tactics. Melis (Melis 1993) introduced a new method for analogical reasoning in automated theorem proving. In this paper we show how the derivational analogy replay ...

In the context of decision making under uncertainty, I formalize the concept of analogy: an Analogy between two decision problems is a mapping that transforms one problem into the other while preserving the problem’s structure. After identifying the basic structure of a decision problem, I introduce the concepts of Analogical Reasoning Operator and of Analogical Reasoning Preference. The former...

Sketches are shapes that represent objects, scenes, or ideas by depicting relevant parts and their spatial arrangements. While humans are quite e cient in understanding and using sketch drawings, those are largely inaccessible to computers. We argue that this is due to a specific shape based representation by humans and hence the use of cognitively inspired representation and reasoning techniqu...

It is assumed that players bundle nodes in which other players must move into analogy classes, and players only have expectations about the average behavior in every class. A solution concept is proposed for multi-stage games with perfect information: at every node players choose best-responses to their analogy-based expectations, and expectations are correct on average over those various nodes...

There have been several e orts to create and use real maps in computer applications that automatically nd good map routes. In general, online map representations do not include information that may be relevant for the purpose of generating good realistic routes, including for example tra c patterns, construction, or number of lanes. Furthermore, the notion of a good route is dependent on a vari...

Perhaps more than any linguist in the 20 century, and now into the 21, whether a generativist or a specialist in historical linguistics, Raimo Anttila, the honorand – and deservedly so – of this volume, has brought to the forefront of linguistic thinking and theorizing the phenomenon of analogy, understood here (following Raimo) in a broad sense to refer to any change in a given form due to the...