Understanding common sense reasoning about the physical world is one of the goals of qualitative reasoning research. This paper describes how we combine qualitative mechanics and analogy to solve everyday physical reasoning problems posed as sketches. The problems are drawn from the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test, which is used to evaluate technician candidates. We discuss sketch annotat...

Analogical reasoning has a long history in artificial intelligence research, primarily because of its promise for Ike acquisition unit effective use of knowledge. Defined as a representational mapping from a known "source" domain into a novel "target" domain, analogy provides a basic mechanism for effectively connecting a reasoner's past and present experience. Using a four-component process mo...

Background: Many comparative studies have been performed on effort estimation models. Linear regression (LR) and Estimation by Analogy (EbA) were often compared. The past research revealed that those comparative studies reported inconsistent results among performance measures. However, those studies seemed not to reflect actual or desirable study procedure. Aim: We aimed to examine performance ...

Prior to the early 1950s, Americanist archaeologists, given their interest in chronology, routinely searched for direct historical connections between ethnographically documented cultures and archaeological cultures. In those instances where clear evolutionary connections existed between ethnographic and prehistoric cultures, the ethnic affinities of the latter could be assessed, chronologies o...

In this paper we propose a new technique for outlines of objects detection. We exploit the set of contours computed using the image analogies principle. A set of artificial patterns are used to locate contours of any query image, each one permits the location of contours corresponding to a specific intensity variation. We studied these contours and a theoretical foundation is proposed to explai...