Recently, several planners have been designed that can create conditionally branching plans to solve problems which involve uncertainty. These planners represent an important step in broadening the applicability of AI planning techniques, but they typically must search a larger space than non-branching planners, since they must produce valid plans for each branch considered. In the worst case t...

This paper deals with learning to classify by using an approximation of the analogical proportion between four objects. These objects are described by binary and nominal attributes. Firstly, the paper recalls what is an analogical proportion between four objects, then it introduces a measure called ”analogical dissimilarity”, reflecting how close four objects are from being in an analogical pro...

Analogical proportions are statements involving four entities, of the form ‘A is to B as C is to D’. They play an important role in analogical reasoning. Their formalization has received much attention from different researchers in the last decade, in particular in a propositional logic setting. Analogical proportions have also been algebraically defined in terms of factorization, as a generali...

Memory-based language processing (MBLP) is an approach to language processing based on exemplar storage during learning and analogical reasoning during processing. From a cognitive perspective, the approach is attractive as a model for human language processing because it does not make any assumptions about the way abstractions are shaped, nor any a priori distinction between regular and except...

The Boolean expression of an analogical proportion, i.e., a statement of the form “a is to b as c is to d”, expresses that “a differs from b as c differs from d, and vice-versa. This is the basis of an analogical inference principle, which is shown to be a particular instance of the analogical “jump”: from P (s), P (t), and Q(s), deduceQ(t). Roughly speaking, an analogical proportion sounds lik...

The use of analogical arguments is most often associated with political argumentation. However, our previous studies have found that analogical arguments are not as convincing as factual arguments. Should politicians rethink their rhetorical techniques ? In this paper, several possible criticisms of previous findings are considered, to determine whether analogical arguments might be considered ...

There are two basic categories of reflection, according to where the learner reflects on. In self-reflection, the learner reflects on her/his own actions, while in comparative reflection the learner reflects on others’ actions. We propose an alternative reflection type, as a subcategory of the comparative reflection, the analogical reflection. In analogical reflection, students reflect on analo...

Recently, several planners have been designed that can create conditionally branching plans to solve problems which involve uncertainty. These planners represent an important step in broadening the applicability of AI planning techniques, but they typically must search a larger space than non-branching planners, since they must produce valid plans for each branch considered. In the worst case t...