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Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

Authors:

Swaroop S. Vattam,

Michael E. Helms,

Ashok K. GoelAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

Pages 255 - 264

https://doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640273

Published: 26 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Analogy is a fundamental process of creativity. Biologically inspired design by definition entails cross-domain analogies, and in practice has led to many innovative designs. Thus, biological inspired design is an ideal domain for studying creative analogies. In this paper, we describe an intricate episode of biologically inspired design that unfolded over an extended period of time. We then analyze the episode in terms of Why, What, How and When questions of analogy. This analysis provides a content theory of creative analogies in biologically inspired design.

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1. Applied computing
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    1. Engineering
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
      1. Cognitive robotics
    2. Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence
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