Bachelor Seminar (WS 2011/2012)

General Information

• For a general course description please read the corresponding pages from the WIAI module guide.
• You find administrative information at UnivIS.
• Participants should sign up for the course in the virtual campus.
• This course is open to diploma students who did not select Cognitive Systems aus special topic.

Recommended Reading / Links

Basic text book:

D. Gentner, K.J. Holyoak, and B.K. Kokinov (2001). The Analogical Mind. Perspectives from Cognitive Science. MIT Press.

Recent work on analogy:

Proceedings of ANALOGY 09, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 24-27, 2009

For each student, a chapter of the book or the proceedings constitutes his/her basic reading material. Specific further reading (typically one research paper) will be selected after consultation.

Presentations

• Benedikt Wirth, Why we are so smart - Development of analogical reasoning [ pdf] [ presentation]
• Jacqueline Hofmann, Analogical Learning in Mathematics [ pdf] [ presentation]
• Enya Lemal, Metaphor enriched social cognition [ pdf] [ presentation]
• Tobias Kaiser, Analogical Problem Solving in ACT-R [ pdf] [ presentation]
• Robert Terbach, Programming by Analogy [ presentation]
• Stefan Reif-Beck, Analogy and Product Similarity as Determinants of Purchase Decisions

Further material

LaTeX-Slides from Klaus Stein [ pdf]

Course Archive

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