Holyoak and Thagard proposed that the retrieval and mapping tasks of analogy can be viewed as constraint satisfaction problems, and described a connectionist implementation of their proposal. In this paper, we describe another constraint satisfaction method for the two tasks in the context of visual analogy: in our method, the source cases are organized in a discrimination tree, and all the sou...

ion over Analog and New Model New Model Figure 3: Model-Based Analogy in IDEAL Figure 3 illustrates a portion of IDEAL's computational process that pertains to the learning, reminding and use of GTMs in analogical design. A design problem to IDEAL speci es the functional requirements of the desired device together with behavioral and structural constraints (if any). For example, one design prob...

Requests for recommendation can be seen as a form of query for candidate items, ranked by relevance. Users are however o‰en unable to crisply de€ne what they are looking for. One of the core concepts of natural communication for describing and explaining complex information needs in an intuitive fashion are analogies: e.g., “What is to Christopher Nolan as is 2001: A Space Odyssey to Stanley Ku...