Structure Mapping Engine

Point of Contact: Dr Kenneth D. Forbus

Mailing address:
AI Center
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493

Home page at http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/ideas/smeidea.htm

Software Description

The basic idea of Gentner's structure-mapping theory is that an analogy is a mapping of knowledge from one domain (the base) into another (the target) which conveys that a system of relations which holds among the base objects also holds among the target objects. The Structure-mapping Engine (SME) is a computer simulation of the analogy and similarity comparisons sanctioned by structure-mapping theory.

Associated Projects

A Knowledge Entry System for Subject Matter Experts
The goal of SHAKEN project is to enable subject matter experts , without any assistance from AI technologists, to assemble the models of processes and mechanisms so that questions about them can be answered by declarative inference and simulation.

©2009 SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493
SRI International is an independent, nonprofit corporation. Privacy policy