A computational model of visual analogies in design

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 204-215

  Davies, Jim ^a   Goel, Ashok K ^b   Nersessian, Nancy J ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Artificial intelligence; Case based reasoning; Cognitive modeling; Design; Diagrammatic reasoning; Transfer; Visual reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANALOGY; COGNITIVE MODELING; DIAGRAMMATIC REASONING; TRANSFER; VISUAL REASONING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DESIGN;

CASE BASED REASONING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 67349269278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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