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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.