Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents
This volume brings together the work of researchers from various disciplines where aspects of descriptive, mathematical, computational or design knowledge concerning metaphor and analogy, especially in the context of agents, have emerged. The book origina
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (Ed.)
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editor Chrystopher L. Nehaniv University of Hertfordshire Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences College Lane, Hatfield Herts AL10 9AB, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 1999 (Lecture notes in computer science ; 1562 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-65959-5
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Preface Metaphor and analogy have served as powerful methods in language, cognition, and the history of science for human agents and cultures. Software, robotic, and living agents also show or may take advantage of such methods in interacting with their worlds. This is a book about `crossing the lines' from one domain into another, and about what can then emerge. The focus of this volume is the phenomena of meaning transfer and meaning construction between di erent domains (minds, systems, technologies, cultures, etc.) and their computational structure and design. The tools of transfer include imitation, analogy, metaphor, narrativity and interaction which support mapping, thinking, processing, learning, reasoning, manipulating, surviving or understanding for agents coping with their worlds. In metaphor, meaning transferred (between di erent agents or from one realm to another within a single system) may constitute, for example, symbolic or nonrepresentational knowledge, particular sets of behaviors, a structural description or nite-state automaton model of a physical phenomenon, cognitive models and hierarchical categories, coordinate systems a ording understanding, or a paradigmatic v
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