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Creative design: Reasoning and understanding

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Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR 1997)

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This paper investigates memory issues that influence longterm creative problem solving and design activity, taking a case-based reasoning perspective. Our exploration is based on a well-documented example: the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. We abstract Bell's reasoning and understanding mechanisms that appear time and again in long-term creative design. We identify that the understanding mechanism is responsible for analogical anticipation of design constraints and analogical evaluation, beside case-based design. But an already understood design can satisfy opportunistically suspended design problems, still active in background. The new mechanisms are integrated in a computational model, ALEC1, that accounts for some creative behavior in case-based design.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA

    Marin Simina & Janet Kolodner

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Simina, M., Kolodner, J. (1997). Creative design: Reasoning and understanding. In: Leake, D.B., Plaza, E. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63233-6_527

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