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"Goel, Analogy & Creativity survey"

A. K. Goel, "Design, Analogy, and Creativity", IEEE Intelligent
Systems, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 62-70, May-June 1997


This is a detailed and oft-cited survey:

"In briefly reviewing recent research on analogy-based creative design,
this article first examines characterizations of creative design and
then analyzes theories of analogical design in terms of four
questions: why, what, how, and when. After briefly describing recent
AI theories of analogy-based creative design, the article focuses on
three theories instantiated in operational computer programs: Syn,
Dssua, and Ideal. From this emerges a set of research issues in
analogy-based creative design. The main goal here is to sketch the
core issues, themes, and directions in building such theories."
[from the Abstract]