Papers by Year
This is a partial collection of our group's research papers listed by year:2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1980
2008 [back to the top]
Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Klenk, M. (2008). Order of Magnitude Reasoning in Modeling Moral Decision-Making. To appear in 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR). Boulder, CO. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Klenk, M. (2008). An Integrated Reasoning Approach to Moral Decision-Making. To appear in Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Chicago, IL. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
Dehghani, M., Tomai, E., Forbus, K., Iliev, R., Klenk, M. (2008). MoralDM: A Computational Modal of Moral Decision-Making. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Washington, D.C. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
Forbus, K., Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Wetzel, J., Matuk, C., Jee, B., and Usher, J. (2008). CogSketch. Proceedings of AAAI 2008. [Sketch Understanding]
Forbus, K., Usher, J., Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Wetzel, J. (2008). CogSketch: Open-domain sketch understanding for cognitive science research and for education. Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. Annecy, France. [Sketch Understanding]
Friedman, S. & Forbus, K. (2008). Learning Causal Models via Progressive Alignment & Qualitative Modeling: A Simulation. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Washington, D.C. [Analogy and Similarity]
Friedman, S. & Forbus, K. (2008). Learning Qualitative Causal Models via Generalization & Quantity Analysis. Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Boulder, CO. [Analogy and Similarity]
Klenk, M., Friedman, S., and Forbus, K. (2008). Learning Modeling Abstractions via Generalization. 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Boulder, CO. [Compositional Modeling]
Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., and Forbus, K. (2008). Automatic Classification of Containment and Support Spatial Relations in English and Dutch. In Proceedings of Spatial Cognition. [Natural Language Semantics]
Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M., and Usher, J. (2008). Automatic Interpretation of Depiction Conventions in Sketched Diagrams. Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling. [Sketch Understanding]
Lockwood, K., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., Dehghani, M., and Usher, J. (2008). A Theory of Depiction for Sketches of Physical Systems. Proceedings of QR 2008. [Sketch Understanding]
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2008). Building and comparing qualitative descriptions of three-dimensional design sketches. Proceedings of the 22nd International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Boulder, CO. [Sketch Understanding]
Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Forbus, K. (2008). A computational model of the visual oddity task. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C. [Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., & Forbus, K. (2008). Modeling cross-cultural performance on the visual oddity task. Proceedings of Spatial Cognition 2008. Freiburg, Germany. [Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Tomai, E., Forbus, K. (2008). Using Qualitative Reasoning for the Attribution of Moral Responsibility. To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Washington, D.C. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
Wetzel, J., Forbus, K. (2008). Integrating Open-Domain Sketch Understanding with Qualitative Two-Dimensional Rigid-Body Mechanics. Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Boulder, CO. [Qualitative Spatial Reasoning] [Sketch Understanding]
2007 [back to the top]
Dehghani, M., Iliev, R. and Kaufmann, S. (2007). Effects of Fact Mutability in the Interpretation of Counterfactuals. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, Tennessee. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
Dehghani, M., Unsworth, S., Lovett, A. and Forbus, K. (2007). Capturing and Categorizing Mental Models of Food Webs using QCM. 21st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Aberystwyth, U.K. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
Forbus, K., and Kuehne, S. (2007). Episodic Memory: A Final Frontier (Abbreviated Version). Proceedings of AI for Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE07), Palo Alto, CA. [Interactive Entertainment]
Forbus, K., Lockwood, K., Tomai, E., Dehghani, M. and Czyz, J. (2007). Machine Reading as a Cognitive Science Research Instrument. AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading. Stanford University, California. [Learning by Reading]
Forbus, K., Riesbeck, C., Birnbaum, L., Livingston, K., Sharma, A., and Ureel, L. (2007). Integrating Natural Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Analogical Processing to Learn by Reading. Proceedings of AAAI-07: Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC. [Learning by Reading]
Forbus, K., Riesbeck, C., Birnbaum, L., Livingston, K., Sharma, A., & Ureel, L. (2007). A Prototype System that Learns by Reading Simplified Texts. AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading. Stanford University, California. [Learning by Reading]
Halstead, D. and Forbus, K. (2007). Some Effects of a Reduced Relational Vocabulary on the Whodunit Problem. Proceedings of IJCAI-2007. Hyderabad, India. [Analogy and Similarity] [Intelligence Analysis]
Hinrichs, T. and Forbus, K. (January, 2007). Analogical Learning in a Turn-Based Strategy Game. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 853-858). Hyderabad, India. [Transfer Learning]
Klenk, M. and Forbus, K. (2007). Cognitive modeling of analogy events in physics problem solving from examples. In the Proceedings of CogSci-07. Nashville, TN. [Companion Cognitive Systems]
Klenk, M. and Forbus, K. (2007). Cross domain analogies for learning domain theories. In Angela Schwering et al. (Eds.), Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities, Volume 5-2007. Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück. [Transfer Learning]
Klenk, M. and Forbus, K. (2007). Learning domain theories via analogical transfer. In Proceedings of Qualitative Reasoning Workshop 2007. Aberystwyth, U.K. [Transfer Learning]
Klenk, M. and Forbus, K. (2007). Measuring the level of transfer learning by an AP Physics problem-solver. Proceedings of AAAI-07: Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC. [Transfer Learning]
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M. and Forbus, K. (2007). Constructing Spatial Representations of Variable Detail for Sketch Recognition. AAAI Spring Symposium on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive ⁄ Intelligent Systems, Stanford University, California. [Sketch Understanding]
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M. and Forbus, K. (2007). Incremental Learning of Perceptual Categories for Open-Domain Sketch Recognition. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 447-452. [Sketch Understanding]
Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Using qualitative representations and analogical mapping to solve problems from a spatial intelligence test. Proceedings of the 21st International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Aberystwyth, U.K. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Lovett, A. Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2007). Analogy with qualitative spatial representations can simulate solving Raven's Progressive Matrices. Proceedings of the of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Lovett, A., Lockwood, K., Dehghani, M., & Forbus, K. (2007). Modeling human-like rates of learning via analogical generalization. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, Tennessee. [Analogy and Similarity]
Lovett, A., Sagi, E., & Gentner, D. (2007). Analogy as a mechanism for comparison. Proceedings of Analogies: Integrating Multiple Cognitive Abilities. Nashville, Tennessee. [Analogy and Similarity]
Paritosh, P.K. (2007). Beyond Corpus Lookup: Towards Heuristic Reasoning with Text. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Answering Questions, IJCAI-07, Hyderabad. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Paritosh, P. and Bridewell, W. (2007). From Whiteboard to Model: A Preliminary Analysis. To appear in the Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Aberystwyth, U.K. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Tomai, E. and Forbus, K. (2007, November). Narrative Presentation and Meaning. AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Arlington, VA. [Natural Language Semantics]
Tomai, E. and Forbus, K. (2007). Plenty of Blame to Go Around: A Qualitative Approach to Attribution of Moral Responsibility. In Proceedings of Qualitative Reasoning Workshop 2007, Aberystwyth, U.K. [Modeling Culture and Cognition]
2006 [back to the top]
Dehghani, M. and Lovett, L. (2006) Efficient Genre Classification using Qualitative Representations. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Victoria, Canada. [Analogy and Similarity]
Hinrichs, T.R., Nichols, N.D. and Forbus, K.D. (2006). Using qualitative reasoning in learning strategy games: A preliminary report. 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Hanover, NH. [Companion Cognitive Systems]
Klenk, M. and Forbus, K. (2006). Analogical Model Formulation for AP Physics Problems. 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Hanover, NH. [Transfer Learning]
Lockwood, K., Forbus, K., Halstead, D. & Usher, J. (2006). Automatic Categorization of Spatial Prepositions. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Lovett, A., Dehghani, M. and Forbus, K. (2006). Efficient Learning of Qualitative Descriptions for Sketch Recognition. Proceedings of the 20th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Hanover, New Hampshire. July. [Sketch Understanding]
Lovett, A., Gentner, D., and Forbus, K. (2006). Simulating Time-Course Phenomena in Perceptual Similarity via Incremental Encoding. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [Analogy and Similarity]
Ouyang, T. and Forbus, K. (2006). Strategy variations in analogical problem solving. Proceedings of AAAI-06. [Analogy and Similarity]
Paritosh, P.K. (2006). The Heuristic Reasoning Manifesto. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Hanover. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Paritosh, P.K. and Klenk, M.E. (2006). Cognitive Processes in Quantitative Estimation: Analogical Anchors and Causal Adjustment. In the Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
2005 [back to the top]
Dunham, G., Forbus, K., and Usher, J. (2005). nuWar: A prototype sketch-based strategy game. Proceeding of the 1st Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference. [Interactive Entertainment]
Forbus, K. (2005). Companion Cognitive Systems: An Overview. One-page abstract for invited Fellows Talk, 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. [Companion Cognitive Systems]
Forbus, K., Birnbaum, L., Wagner, E., Baker, J. and Witbrock, M. (2005). Analogy, intelligent IR, and knowledge integration: Situation tracking and the Whodunit problem. The 20005 International Conference on Intelligence Analysis. McLean, VA. [Intelligence Analysis]
Forbus, K. D. & Kuehne, S. (2005). Towards a qualitative model of everyday political reasoning. Proceedings of the 19th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Graz, Austria, May. [Learning by Reading]
Forbus, K., Usher, J. and Tomai, E. (2005). Analogical learning of visual/conceptual relationships in sketches. Proceedings of AAAI-05. [Companion Cognitive Systems]
Halstead, D. and Forbus, K. (2005). Transforming between Propositions and Features: Bridging the Gap. Proceedings of AAAI-2005. Pittsburgh, PA. [Analogy and Similarity]
Klenk, M., Forbus, K., Tomai, E., Kim,H., and Kyckelhahn, B. (2005). Solving Everyday Physical Reasoning Problems by Analogy using Sketches. Proceedings of 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Lockwood, K., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2005). SpaceCase: A model of spatial preposition use. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Stressa, Italy. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Paritosh, P. and Forbus, K. (2005). Analysis of Strategic Knowledge in Back of the Envelope Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Sanghi, M., Paritosh P.K., and Thomas, R. (2005). Sub-linear Algorithms for Landmark Discovery from Black Box Models. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Graz, Austria. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Tomai, E., Lovett, A., Forbus, K., & Usher, J. (2005). A Structure Mapping Model for Solving Geometric Analogy Problems. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stressa, Italy, 2190-2195. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Ureel II, Leo C., K. Forbus, C. Riesbeck, & L. Birnbaum (2005). Question Generation for Learning by Reading. To appear in the Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Textual Question Answering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July. [Learning by Reading]
Yan, J. and Forbus, K. (2005). Similarity-based qualitative simulation. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [Analogy and Similarity]
2004 [back to the top]
Forbus, K., Carney, K., Sherin, B. and Ureel, L. (2004). Qualitative modeling for middle-school students. Proceedings of the 18th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, August. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K., Carney, K., Sherin, B. and Ureel, L. (2004). VModel: A visual qualitative modeling environment for middle-school students. Proceedings of the 16th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, San Jose, July 2004. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K. and Hinrichs, T. (2004). Companion Cognitive Systems: A step towards human-level AI. AAAI Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research, October, Washington, DC. [Companion Cognitive Systems]
Forbus, K. and Hinrichs, T. (2004). Self-modeling in Companion Cognitive Systems: Current Plans. DARPA Workshop on Self-Aware Systems, Washington, DC. [Companion Cognitive Systems]
Forbus, K., Lockwood, K., Klenk, M., Tomai, E., and Usher, J. (2004). Open-domain sketch understanding: The nuSketch approach. To appear in AAAI Fall Symposium on Making Pen-based Interaction Intelligent and Natural, October, Washington, DC. [Sketch Understanding]
Kuehne, S. E. (2004). On the Representation of Physical Quantities in Natural Language Text. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, Illinois, August. [Natural Language Semantics]
Kuehne, S. E. (2004). Understanding natural language descriptions of physical phenomena. Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. [Natural Language Semantics]
Kuehne, S. and Forbus, K. (2004). Capturing QP-relevant information from natural language text. Proceedings of the 18th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, August. [Natural Language Semantics]
Kyckelhahn, B. and Forbus, K. (2004). Jitter in self-explanatory simulation. Proceedings of the 18th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, August. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Paritosh, P.K. (2004). Symbolizing Quantity. In Proceedings of the 26th Cognitive Science Conference, Chicago. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Paritosh, P. and Forbus, K. (2004). Using strategies and AND/OR decomposition for back of the envelope reasoning. Proceedings of the 18th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, August. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Tomai, E., Forbus, K., and Usher, J. (2004). Qualitative spatial reasoning for geometric analogies. Proceedings of the 18th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, August. [Sketch Understanding]
Yan, J. and Forbus, K. (2004). Similarity-based qualitative simulation: A preliminary report. Proceedings of the 18th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, USA, August. [Analogy and Similarity]
2003 [back to the top]
Barker, K., Blythe, J., Borchardt, G., Chaudhri, V., Clark, P., Cohen, P., Fitzgerald, J., Forbus, K., Gil, Y., Katz, B., Kim, J., King, G., Mishra, S., Morrison, C., Murray, K., Otstott, C., Porter, B., Schrag, R., Uribe, T., Usher, J. & Yeh, P. (2003). A knowledge acquisition tool for course of action analysis. In Proceedings of the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. [Sketch Understanding]
Carney, Karen and Ureel, Leo (2003). Demonstration of Supports for Student Reuse and Integration of Knowledge through Modeling. In Wasson B., Baggetun, R., Hoppe, U., Ludvigsen, S. (Eds.) International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, CSCL 2003, Community events, Communication and Interaction. (pp. 98-100) Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen Press. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K., Tomai, E., and Usher, J. (2003). Qualitative spatial reasoning for visual grouping in sketches. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Brasilia, Brazil, August. [Sketch Understanding]
Forbus, K., Usher, J. and Chapman, V. (2003). Qualitative spatial reasoning about sketch maps. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico. [Sketch Understanding]
Forbus, K., Usher, J., and Chapman, V. (2003). Sketching for Military Courses of Action Diagrams. Proceedings of IUI'03, January, 2003. Miami, Florida. [Sketch Understanding]
Paritosh, P.K. (2003). A sketch of a theory of quantity. Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Brasilia, Brazil, August 2003. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Paritosh, P.K. and Forbus, K.D. (2003). Qualitative Modeling and Similarity in Back of the Envelope Reasoning. In Proceedings of the 25th Cognitive Science Conference, Boston, MA. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Ureel, Leo and Carney, Karen (2003). Design Of Computational Supports for Students in Visual Modelling Tasks. In Wasson B., Baggetun, R., Hoppe, U., Ludvigsen, S. (Eds.) International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, CSCL 2003, Community events, Communication and Interaction. (pp. 98-100) Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen Press. [Educational Software]
Yan, J., Forbus, K., and Gentner, D. (2003). A Theory of Rerepresentation in Analogical Matching. Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [Analogy and Similarity]
2002 [back to the top]
Bittner, T. (2002). Approximate qualitative temporal reasoning. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 35(1-2), 39-80. [QP: Qualitative Temporal Reasoning]
Carney, Karen, (2002). When is a Tree a Process? Influences on Student Representations of Process in "Low Floor" Qualitative Modeling Tasks. In P. Bell and T. Satwicz (Eds) Keeping Learning Complex: The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference of the Learning Sciences, (pp. 49-56) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum. [Educational Software]
Carney, K, Forbus K., Ureel, L., Sherin, B. (2002). Using Modeling to Support Integration and Reuse of Knowledge in School Science: Vmodel, a New Educational Technology. American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, April. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K. (2002). Helping children become qualitative modelers. Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, to appear. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K., Mostek, T. and Ferguson, R. (2002). An analogy ontology for integrating analogical processing and first-principles reasoning. Proceedings of IAAI-02, July. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. and Usher, J. (2002). Sketching for knowledge capture: A progress report. IUI'02, January 13-16, San Francisco, California. [Sketch Understanding]
Kuehne, S.E., and Forbus, K. D. (2002). Qualitative physics as a component in natural language semantics: A progress report. Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. [Natural Language Semantics]
Nicholson, S. and Forbus, K. (2002). Answering comparison questions in SHAKEN: A progress report. AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases, Palo Alto, CA. [Analogy and Similarity]
Rasch, R., Kott, Al, and Forbus, K. (2002). AI on the Battlefield: An experimental exploration. To appear in Proceedings of the 14th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, July, Edmonton, Canada. [Sketch Understanding]
2001 [back to the top]
Bittner, T & Smith, B. (2001). Granular partitions and vagueness. Proceedings of the Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS2001), ACM Press. [Ontology and Granular Partitions]
Bittner, T & Smith, B. (2001). A taxonomy of granular partitions. Proceedings of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT2001). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin-Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag. [Ontology and Granular Partitions]
Bittner, T & Smith, B. (2001). A unified theory of granularity, vagueness and approximation. COSIT Workshop on Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty, and Granularity. [Ontology and Granular Partitions]
Forbus, K. (2001). Articulate software for science and engineering education. In Forbus, K., Feltovich, P., and Canas, A. (Eds.) Smart machines in education: The coming revolution in educational technology. AAAI Press. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K. (2001). Exploring analogy in the large. In Gentner, D., Holyoak, K., and Kokinov, B. (Eds.) Analogy: Perspectives from Cognitive Science. MIT Press. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K., Carney, K., Harris, R. and Sherin, B. (2001). A qualitative modeling environment for middle-school students: A progress report. Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR01). [Educational Software]
Forbus, K., Feltovich, P., and Canas, A. (Eds.) (2001). Smart Machines in Education: The coming revolution in educational technology. AAAI Press. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K., Ferguson, R. and Usher, J. (2001). Towards a computational model of sketching. IUI'01,January 14-17, 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico. [Sketch Understanding]
Forbus, K., Mahoney, J., and Dill, K. (2001). How qualitative spatial reasoning can improve strategy game AIs. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and Interactive Entertainment, March. [Interactive Entertainment]
Forbus, K. and Wright, W. (2001). Some notes on programming objects in The Sims. Class notes from Northwestern's Computer Game Design course, 5/31/01. [Interactive Entertainment]
Paritosh, P.K. and Forbus, K.D. (2001). Common sense on the envelope. Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
2000 [back to the top]
Forbus, K., Ferguson, R. and Usher, J. (2000). Towards a computational model of sketching. Proceedings of QR-2000, Morelia, Mexico. [Sketch Understanding]
Kuehne, S., Forbus, K., Gentner, D. and Quinn, B. (2000). SEQL: Category learning as progressive abstraction using structure mapping. Proceedings of CogSci 2000, August. [Analogy and Similarity]
Kuehne, S., Gentner, D. and Forbus, K. (2000). Modeling infant learning via symbolic structural alignment. Proceedings of CogSci 2000, August. [Analogy and Similarity]
Mostek, T., Forbus, K, and Meverden, C. (2000). Dynamic case creation and expansion for analogical reasoning. Proceedings of AAAI-2000. Austin, TX. [Analogy and Similarity]
1999 [back to the top]
Dobson, D. and Forbus, K. (1999). Towards articulate game engines. AAAI Spring Symposium on AI and computer games. (AAAI Technical Report SS-99-02). [Interactive Entertainment]
Donlon, J.J. and Forbus, K.D. (1999). Using a geographic information system for qualitative spatial reasoning about trafficability. Proceedings of the Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Loch Awe, Scotland. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Everett, J. O. (1999). Topological inference of teleology: Deriving function from structure via evidential reasoning. Artificial Intelligence, 113 (1-2). [QP: Teleology]
Ferguson, R.W. and Forbus, K.D. (1999). GeoRep: A flexible tool for spatial representation of line drawings. Proceedings of the Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. Loch Awe, Scotland. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Forbus, K.D., Whalley, P., Everett, J., Ureel, L., Brokowski, M., Baher, J. and Kuehne, S. (1999). CyclePad: An articulate virtual laboratory for engineering thermodynamics. Artificial Intelligence, 114, 297-347. [Educational Software]
1998 [back to the top]
Forbus, K., Everett, J., Ureel, L., Brokowski, M., Baher, J., and Kuehne, S. (1998). Distributed Coaching for an Intelligent Learning Environment. Proceedings of QR98, May, Cape Cod. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K., Gentner, D., Markman, A. and Ferguson, R. (1998). Analogy just looks like high level perception: Why a domain-general approach to analogical mapping is right. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETI), 10, 231-257. [Position Papers and Commentaries]
Forbus, K. D. and Kuehne, S. E. (1998). RoboTA: An agent colony architecture for supporting education. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '98). (pp. 455-456). Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. [Educational Software]
Pisan, Y. (1998). An integrated architecture for engineering problem solving. Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Appendix of problems solved by the Thermodynamics Problem Solver). [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Sgouros, N. (1998). Interaction between physical and design knowledge in design from physical principles. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 11, 449-459. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
1997 [back to the top]
Ferguson, R.W., Forbus, K.D., and Gentner, D. (1997). On the proper treatment of noun-noun metaphor: A critique of the Sapper model. Member abstract presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford University, August. (HTML, PDF). [Position Papers and Commentaries]
Forbus, K. (1997). Using qualitative physics to create articulate educational software. IEEE Expert, May/June, 32-41. [Educational Software]
Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1997). Qualitative mental models: Simulations or memories? Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Cortona, Italy, June 3-6, pp. 97-104. [QP: Common Sense Reasoning]
Forbus, K., Gentner, D., Everett, J. and Wu, M. (1997). Towards a computational model of evaluating and using analogical inferences. Proceedings of CogSci97. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K., Gentner, D., Markman, A. and Ferguson, R. (1997). Analogy just looks like high level perception: Why a domain-general approach to analogical mapping is right. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. (html version, PDF version). This paper is a reply to Chalmers, D. J., French, R. M., & Hofstadter, D. R. (1992). High-level perception, representation and analogy: A critique of artificial intelligence methodology. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 4, 185-211. [Position Papers and Commentaries]
Gentner, D., Brem, S., Ferguson, R.W., Markman, A.B., Levidow, B.B., Wolff, P., and Forbus, K. (1997). Analogical reasoning and conceptual change: A case study of Johannes Kepler. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(1), 3-40. [Analogy and Similarity]
Gentner, D. and Markman, A. (1997). Structure mapping in analogy and similarity. American Psychologist, January, 45-56. [Analogy and Similarity]
1996 [back to the top]
Everett, J. and Forbus, K. (1996). Scaling Up Logic-Based Truth Maintenance Systems via Fact Garbage Collection. Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [Reasoning Techniques]
Forbus, K. (1996). Qualitative reasoning. CRC Hand-book of Computer Science and Engineering. CRC Press. (Next-to final drafts, with more citations than final version. Postscript). [QP: Surveys]
Forbus, K. (1996). Self-explanatory simulators for middle-school science education: A progress report. Proceedings of QR96. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Forbus, K. (1996). Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby. D-Lib Magazine, October. [Interactive Entertainment]
Pisan, Y. (1996). Using qualitative representations in controlling engineering problem solving. Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. (html, Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format). [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
1995 [back to the top]
Everett, J. (1995). A theory of mapping from structure to function applied to engineering thermodynamics. Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [QP: Teleology]
Ferguson, R. and Forbus, K. (1995). Understanding Illustrations of Physical Laws by Integrating Differences in Visual and Textual Representations. AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models for Integrating Language and Vision. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. and Falkenhainer, B. (1995). Scaling up self-explanatory simulators: Polynomial-time compilation. Proceedings of IJCAI-95, Montreal, Canada. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Gentner, D., Rattermann, M.J., Markman, A., and Kotovsky, L. (1995). Two forces in the development of relational similarity. [Analogy and Similarity]
Pisan, Y. (1995). A visual routines based model of graph understanding. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
1994 [back to the top]
Ferguson, R. W. (1994). MAGI: Analogy-based encoding using regularity and symmetry. In A. Ram & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 283-288). Atlanta, GA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. (1994). Polynomial-time compilation of self-explanatory simulators. Proceedings of QR94, Nara, Japan, June. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Forbus, K. (1994). Qualitative spatial reasoning: Framework and frontiers. In: Glasgow, J ., Narayanan, H ., & Chandrasekaren, B. (Eds.), Diagrammatic Reasoning: Computational and Cognitive Perspectives, AAAI Press, 1995. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Forbus, K. (1994). Self-explanatory simulators: Making computers partners in the modeling process. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 36, 91-101. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Forbus, K., Ferguson, R. and Gentner, D. (1994). Incremental structure-mapping. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, August. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K., Gentner, D., and Law, K. (1994). MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrieval. Cognitive Science, 19, 141-205. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. and Whalley, P.B. (1994). Using qualitative physics to build articulate software for thermodynamics education. Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [Educational Software]
Pisan, Y. (1994). Visual reasoning with graphs. Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. (Visual reasoning about physical properties via graphs). [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
1993 [back to the top]
Collins, J.W. (1993). Process-based diagnosis: An approach to understanding novel failures (Tech. Rep. No. 48). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University, The Institute for the Learning Sciences. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Forbus, K. (1993). Qualitative process theory: Twelve years after. Artificial Intelligence, 59, 115-123. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Forbus, K. and de Kleer, J. (1993). Building Problem Solvers, MIT Press. [Reasoning Techniques]
Forbus, K., Ferguson, R., Hyun, S., and Everett, J. (1993). Qualitative reasoning about function: A progress report. Submitted to AAAI Workshop on Reasoning About Function. [QP: Teleology]
Kim, H. (1993). Qualitative reasoning about fluids and mechanics. Ph.D. dissertation and ILS Technical Report, Northwestern University. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Sgouros, N. (1993). Representing physical and design knowledge in innovative design. Dissertation. [This paper might also be seen under the following title: Representing physical and design knowledge in innovative engineering design]. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
1992 [back to the top]
Forbus, K. and Falkenhainer, B. (1992). Self-Explanatory Simulations: Scaling up to large models. Proceedings of AAAI 1992, San Jose, California, 685-690. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
1991 [back to the top]
Collins, J.W. (1991). Diagnosis as failure understanding (Tech. Rep. No. UIUCDCS-R-91-1699/UILU-ENG-91-1745). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
DeCoste, D. (1991). Toward a qualitative theory of safety control: When and how to panic intelligently (Tech. Rep. No. 14). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, The Institute for the Learning Sciences. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
DeCoste, D. and Collins, J.W. (1991). CATMS: An ATMS which avoids label explosions. (Tech. Rep. No. 13). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, The Institute for the Learning Sciences. [Reasoning Techniques]
DeCoste, D. and Collins, J.W. (1991). IQE: An incremental qualitative envisioner. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Falkenhainer, B. and Forbus, K. (1991). Compositional modeling: Finding the right model for the job. Artificial Intelligence, 51, 95-143. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Forbus, K. (1991). The physics of futures past: A response to Sacks and Doyle. Computational Intelligence. [Position Papers and Commentaries]
Forbus, K. (1991). Towards tutor compilers: Self-explanatory simulations as an enabling technology. Proceedings of the 1990 International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 173-179. [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Forbus, K., Nielsen, P., and Faltings, B. (1991). Qualitative spatial reasoning: The CLOCK project. Artificial Intelligence. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
Gentner, D. and Boronat, C.B. (1991). Metaphors are (sometimes) processed as generative domain-mappings. (Unpublished Draft. Do not cite without permission). [Analogy and Similarity]
Gentner, D. and Forbus, K. (1991). MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrieval. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [Analogy and Similarity]
Skorstad, G. (1991). Finding stable causal interpretations of equations (Tech. Rep. No. UIUCDCS-R-91-1654/Tech Rep. No. UILU-ENG-91-1701). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department, Qualitative Reasoning Group. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Xerox. (1991). Composition modeling of physical systems. (Report No. SSL-91-95, [P91-000181]). Palo Alto, CA: Falkenhainer, B. & Forbus, K. [QP: Compositional Modeling]
1990 [back to the top]
Collins, J.W. and Forbus, K. (1990). Molecular collections: An ontology for reasoning about fluids. Manuscript submitted for publication. DRAFT, do not cite. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
DeCoste, D. (1990). Dynamic across-time measurement interpretation. Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), Boston, MA, July 1990. (also appears in: Readings in Model-Based Diagnosis, editors Walter Hamscher et al., Morgan Kauffmann, 1992). Scan of paper (poor quality). [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
DeCoste, D. (1990). Dynamic across-time measurement interpretation: Maintaining qualitative understandings of physical system behavior (Tech. Rep. No. UIUCDCS-R-90-1572/UILU-ENG-90-1710). Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
Falkenhainer, B. (1990). Analogy in Context. DRAFT. [Analogy and Similarity]
Falkenhainer, B. (1990). A unified approach to explanation and theory formation. In J. Shrager and P. Langley (Eds.), Computational models of scientific discovery and theory formation (pp. 157-196). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. and Falkenhainer, B. (1990). Self-explanatory simulations: An integration of qualitative and quantitative knowledge. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90). [QP: Self-explanatory Simulators]
Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1990). Similarity-based cognitive architecture. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. and Oblinger, D. (1990). Making SME greedy and pragmatic. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [Analogy and Similarity]
Hyun-Kyung, K. (1990). Qualitative kinematics of linkages (Tech Rep. No. UNCDCS-R-90-1603/ UILU-ENG-90-1742). Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
1989 [back to the top]
Collins, J. and Forbus, K.. (1989). Building qualitative models of thermodynamic processes. Proceedings of the Qualitative Reasoning Workshop. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Falkenhainer, B., Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1989). The Structure Mapping Engine: Algorithm and examples. Artificial Intelligence. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. (1989). Introducing actions into qualitative simulation. Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1989). Structural evaluation of analogies: What counts? Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [Analogy and Similarity]
Skorstad, G. and Forbus, K. (1989). Qualitative and quantitative reasoning about thermodynamics. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [QP: Engineering Problem Solving]
1988 [back to the top]
Falkenhainer, B. (1988). Learning from physical analogies: A study in analogy and the explanation process. (Technical Report No. UIUCDCS-R-88-1479). University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign. (Ph.D. Thesis) [Analogy and Similarity]
Falkenhainer, B. and Forbus, K. (1988). Setting up Large-Scale Qualitative Models. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88), St. Paul, MN, 301-306. [QP: Compositional Modeling]
Forbus, K. (1988). Intelligent computer-aided engineering. AI Magazine, Fall. [Position Papers and Commentaries]
Forbus, K. (1988). QPE: Using assumption-based truth maintenance for qualitative simulation. The International Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, 3(4), 200-215. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Forbus, K. (1988). Qualitative physics: Past, present, and future. In Exploring Artificial Intelligence, Morgan-Kaufmann. [QP: Surveys]
Forbus, K. and de Kleer, J. (1988). Focusing the ATMS. Proceedings of AAAI-88, August. [Reasoning Techniques]
Nielsen, P.E. (1988). A qualitative approach to rigid body mechanics. (Tech. Rep. No. UIUCDCS-R-88-1469; UILU-ENG-88-1775). Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
1987 [back to the top]
Collins, J. and Forbus, K. (1987). Reasoning about fluids via molecular collections. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington, 590-594. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Forbus, K. (1987). Interpreting observations of physical systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-17(3), 350-359. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
1986 [back to the top]
Falkenhainer, B., Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1986). The Structure-Mapping Engine. (Tech. Rep. No. UIUCDCS-R-86-1275, UILU-ENG-86-1732). Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science. [Analogy and Similarity]
Falkenhainer, B., Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1986). The Structure-Mapping Engine. Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. (1986). The logic of occurrence. Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1986). Learning Physical Domains: Towards a Theoretical Framework. In Michalski, R., Carbonell, J. and Mitchell, T. (Eds.), Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume 2. Tioga press. [Analogy and Similarity]
Forbus, K. and Gentner, D. (1986). Causal reasoning about quantities. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amherst, Massachusetts, August. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
1985 [back to the top]
Forbus, K. (1985). The problem of existence. (Tech. Rep. No. UIUCDCS-R-85-1239; UILU-ENG-85-1747). Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
1984 [back to the top]
Forbus, K. (1984). Qualitative process theory. Artificial Intelligence, 24, 85-168. [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
1983 [back to the top]
Forbus, K. (1983). Measurement interpretation in qualitative process theory. IJCAI-83 [QP: Qualitative Process Theory]
Forbus, K. (1983). Qualitative reasoning about space and motion. In Gentner, D. and Stevens, A. (Eds.), Mental Models, LEA Associates, Inc., New Jersey. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
1980 [back to the top]
Forbus, K. (1980). Spatial and qualitative aspects of reasoning about motion. Proceedings of the first annual conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, August. [QP: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning]
