An analysis on transformational analogy: general framework and complexity

  • Authors:
  • Vithal Kuchibatla;Héctor Muñoz-Avila

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

  • Venue:
  • ECCBR'06 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we present TransUCP, a general framework for transformational analogy. Using our framework we demonstrate that transformational analogy does not meet a crucial condition for a well-known worst-case complexity scenario, and therefore the results about plan adaptation being computationally harder than planning from the scratch does not apply to transformational analogy. We prove this by constructing a counter-example that does not meet this condition. Furthermore, we perform experiments that demonstrate that this counter-example is not an exception. Rather, our experiments show that it is unlikely that this condition will be met when performing plan adaptation with transformational analogy.