Inter-diagrammatic reasoning

  • Authors:
  • Michael Anderson;Robert McCartney

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut and Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT;Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Connecticut

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Endowing a computer with an ability to reason with diagrams could be of great benefit in terms of both human-computer interaction and computational efficiency through explicit representation. To date, research in diagrammatic reasoning has dealt with intra-diagrammatic reasoning (reasoning with a single diagram) almost to the exclusion of inter-diagrammatic reasoning (reasoning with related groups of diagrams). We postulate a number of general inter-diagrammatic operators and show how such operators can be useful in various diagrammatic domains. We develop a heuristic in the domain of game notation, derive fingering information in the domain of musical notation, and infer new information from related cartograms.