Analogical Reasoning and Conceptual Change: A Case (2009)
Dedre Gentner, Sarah Brem, Ronald W Ferguson, Arthur B Markman, Bjorn B Levidow, ...
The work of Johannes Kepler offers clear examples of conceptual change. In this article, using Kepler's work as a case study, we argue that analogical reasoning Requests for reprints should be...
Toward Intelligent Drawing Constraints (2008)
Ronald W. Ferguson, Neil Cutshaw, Huzaifa Zafar
Diagrammatic problem solving in domains such as architecture and design often involves continual redrawing of existing figures. Drawing programs, such as Visio and CorelDraw, accommodate redrawing...
Designed and ran experiments researching categorization biases. (2008)
Jim Davies, Advisors Profs, Ashok K. Goel, Nancy J. Nersessian, Committee Profs, Ronald W. Ferguson, ...
Applying visual analogy techniques to bioinformatics.
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (2008)
Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Arthur B. Markman, Ronald W. Ferguson
Hofstadter and his colleagues have criticized current accounts of analogy, claiming that such accounts do not accurately capture interactions between processes of representation construction and...
Ronald W. Ferguson, Kenneth D. Forbus
Diagrams often use repetition to convey points and establish contrasts. This paper shows how MAGI, our model of repetition and symmetry detection, can model the cognitive processes humans use when...
Maintaining spatial relations in an incremental diagrammatic reasoner (2003)
Ronald W. Ferguson, Joseph L. Bokor, Adam Feldman
Abstract. This paper describes an architecture for dynamically handling spatial relations in an incremental, nonmonotonic diagrammatic reasoning system. The architecture represents jointly exhaustive...
A Cognitive approach to sketch understanding (2002)
Sketching is an interactive process of communication, using drawings and linguistic information to convey spatial and conceptual material. Our work on a computational model of sketching has the goal...
A Cognitive approach to sketch understanding (2002)
Sketching is an interactive process of communication, using drawings and linguistic information to convey spatial and conceptual material. Our work on a computational model of sketching has the goal...
Towards a computational model of sketching (2001)
Kenneth D. Forbus, Ronald W. Ferguson, Jeffery M. Usher
Sketching is a powerful means of interpersonal communication. While many useful multimodal systems have been created, current systems are far from achieving human-like participation in sketching. A...
Towards a computational model of sketching (2001)
Kenneth D. Forbus, Ronald W. Ferguson, Jeff Usher
Sketching is a powerful means of communication between people, and while many useful programs have been created, current systems are far from achieving human-like participation in sketching. A...
Qualitative Spatial Interpretation of Course-of-Action Diagrams (2000)
Ronald W. Ferguson, Robert A. Rasch, Kenneth D. Forbus
This paper demonstrates qualitative spatial reasoning techniques in a real-world diagrammatic reasoning task: Course-of-Action (COA) diagrams. COA diagrams are military planning diagrams that depict...
To appear at the Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, June 1999, Loch Awe, Scotland. (2000)
Georep Flexible Tool, Ronald W. Ferguson, Kenneth D. Forbus
A central problem in qualitative reasoning is understanding how people reason about space and shape with diagrams.
GeoRep: A Flexible Tool for Spatial Representation of Line Drawings (1999)
Ronald W. Ferguson, Kenneth D. Forbus
A central problem in qualitative reasoning is understanding how people reason about space and shape with diagrams.
Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner, Ronald W. Ferguson
Abstract. Hofstadter and his colleagues have criticized current accounts of analogy, claiming that such accounts do not accurately capture interactions between processes of representation...
Ronald W. Ferguson, Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner
This paper responds to the claim of Veale, O'Donoghue and Keane (1995) that SME (Falkenhainer, Forbus & Gentner, 1989; Forbus, Ferguson & Gentner, 1994) performs poorly on noun-noun...
Modeling qualitative differences in symmetry judgments (1996)
Symmetry perception is an important cognitive process across many areas of cognition. This research explores symmetry as a special case of similarity—self-similarity—and proposes that qualitative...