Software reuse means to use again software components built successfully for previous projects. To be successful, techniques for reuse should be incorporated into the development environment. This paper presents an approach where analogical reasoning is used to identify potentially reusable analysis models. A prototype implementation with focus on the repository and analogical reasoning mechani...

Computational models of analogical inference have assumed that inferences about the target are generated solely by “copying with substitution and generation” from the source, guided by a mapping based on similarity and parallel structure. In contrast, work in philosophy of science has stressed that analogical inference is based on causal models of the source and target. In two experiments, we s...

We present two experiments assessing whether the size of a transformation instantiating a relation between two states of the world (e.g., shrinks) is a performance factor affecting analogical reasoning. The first experiment finds evidence of transformation size as a significant factor in adolescent analogical problem solving while the second experiment finds a similar effect on adult analogical...

Analogy lets us make inferences from a better known example on to a less known one. Analogical estimation is a specific kind of analogical inference, namely, inferring the quantitative value of an unknown based on a known value from a similar example. We present Analogical Estimator, a computational model of analogical estimation. A key claim of this work is that we don’t need a separate mechan...

The development of analogical reasoning has traditionally been understood in terms of theories of adult competence. This approach emphasizes structured representations and structure mapping. In contrast, we argue that by taking a developmental perspective, analogical reasoning can be viewed as the product of a substantially different cognitive ability - relational priming. To illustrate this, w...

Analogies play an important role in many reasoning tasks. In this paper, we survey a recently proposed modeling for an analogical proportion, i.e. a statement of the form “A is to B as C is to D”, and its diverse applications. The logical representation used for encoding such proportions takes both into account what the four situations have in common and how they differ. Thanks to the use of a ...