ylfink@water.UUCP (ylfink) (08/01/86)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SEMINAR ACTIVITIES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR - Wednesday, August 6, 1986. Dr. Russ Greiner of the University of Toronto will speak on ``Learning by Understanding Analogies''. TIME: 3:30 PM ROOM: MC 6091A ABSTRACT This thesis describes a method for learning by analogy -- i.e., for proposing new conjectures about a target analogue based on facts known about a source analogue. After formally defining this process, we present heuristics which efficiently guide it to the conjec- tures which can help solve a given problem. These rules are based on the view that a useful analogy is one which provides the information needed to solve the problem, and no more. Experimental data confirms the effectiveness of this approach.