{"pk":33301,"title":"Modeling invention by Analogy in ACT-R","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigate some aspects of cognition involved in invention, more precisely in the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. We propose the use of the Structure-Behavior-Function (SBF) language for the representation of invention knowledge; we claim that because SBF has been shown to support a wide range of reasoning about physical devices, it constitutes a plausible account of how an inventor might represent knowledge of an invention. We further propose the use of the ACT-R architecture for the implementation of this model. ACT-R has been shown to very precisely model a wide range of human cognition. We draw upon the architecture for execution of productions and matching of declarative knowledge through spreading activation. Thus we present a model which combines the well-established cognitive validity of ACT-R with the powerful, specialized model-based reasoning methods facilitated by SBF.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nw8b8c6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"J.","middle_name":"William","last_name":"Murdock","name_suffix":"","institution":"College of Computing, Georgia institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Marin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Simina","name_suffix":"","institution":"College of Computing, Georgia institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Jim","middle_name":"","last_name":"Davies","name_suffix":"","institution":"College of Computing, Georgia institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Gordon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shippey","name_suffix":"","institution":"College of Computing, Georgia institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33301/galley/24361/download/"}]}