34 research outputs found
Goal Reasoning: Papers from the ACS Workshop
This technical report contains the 14 accepted papers presented at the Workshop on Goal Reasoning,
which was held as part of the 2015 Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS-15) in Atlanta,
Georgia on 28 May 2015. This is the fourth in a series of workshops related to this topic, the first of
which was the AAAI-10 Workshop on Goal-Directed Autonomy; the second was the Self-Motivated
Agents (SeMoA) Workshop, held at Lehigh University in November 2012; and the third was the Goal
Reasoning Workshop at ACS-13 in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2013
Attitudinal Gains from Engagement with Metacognitive Tutors in an Exploratory Learning Environment
Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design
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
Problem-Driven and Solution-Based Design: Twin Processes of Biologically Inspired Design
Biologically inspired design uses biological systems as analogues to develop solutions for design problems. We conducted a cognitive study of biologically inspired design in the context of an interdisciplinary introductory course on biologically inspired design in Fall of 2006. The goal of this study was to understand the processes of biologically inspired design. This paper provides a descriptive account of twin biologically inspired design processes, problem-driven and solution-based, and highlights the similarities and differences between them