2 books on CONNECTIONISM & ANALOGY

Wed Sep 28 11:44:42 EDT 1994

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* This is to announce TWO NEW VOLUMES in the book series      *
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* ``ADVANCES IN CONNECTIONIST AND NEURAL COMPUTATION THEORY'' *
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* published by Ablex (Norwood, NJ).                           *
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The new volumes, numbered 2 and 3, appeared this summer.  They were originally
to have been just one book, and they are to be regarded as companion volumes.
They have the same introductory chapter (not listed below). They are about the
application of connectionist and hybrid connectionist/symbolic techniques to
analogy, reminding, case-based reasoning and metaphor.

Please note that the volumes don't have the editors in the same order.

VOLUME TWO: ``Analogical Connections''
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Edited by: 

  Keith J. Holyoak,  University of California,  Los Angeles
  John A. Barnden,   New Mexico State University

MAIN CONTENTS

Part I: INTEGRATED MODELS OF ANALOGICAL THINKING

1.  The Copycat Project: A Model of Mental Fluidity and Analogy-Making
    Douglas R. Hofstadter & Melanie Mitchell

2.  Component Processes in Analogical Transfer:
    Mapping, Pattern Completion, and Adaptation
    Keith J. Holyoak, Laura R. Novick & Eric R. Melz

3.  Integrating Analogy with Rules and Explanations
    Greg Nelson, Paul Thagard & Susan Hardy

4.  A Hybrid Model of Continuous Analogical Reasoning
    Thomas C. Eskridge

5.  A Hybrid Model of Reasoning by Analogy
    Boicho N. Kokinov

Part II: SIMILARITY AND ANALOGICAL MAPPING

6.  Similarity, Interactive Activation, and Mapping: An Overview
    Robert Goldstone & Douglas Medin

7.  Connectionist Implications for Processing Capacity Limitations in
    Analogies
    Graeme S. Halford, William H. Wilson, Jian Guo, Ross W. Gayler,
    Janet Wiles & J.E.M. Stewart

8.  Analogical Mapping by Dynamic Binding: Preliminary Investigations
    John E. Hummel, Bruce Burns & Keith J. Holyoak

9.  Spatial Inclusion and Set Membership: A Case Study
    of Analogy at Work
    Keith Stenning & Jon Oberlander

Published 1994/504 pages
Cloth: 1-56750-039-0/$69.50 (*** $35.00 prepaid *** / no further discount applies)

VOLUME THREE: ``ANALOGY, METAPHOR, AND REMINDING''
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Edited by: 

  John A. Barnden,  New Mexico State University
  Keith J. Holyoak, University of California, Los Angeles

MAIN CONTENTS

1. REMIND: Retrieval from Episodic Memory by Inferencing and
   Disambiguation 
   Trent E. Lange & Charles M. Wharton

2. The Role of Goals in Retrieving Analogical Cases
   Colleen Seifert

3. A Case Study of Case Indexing: Designing Index Feature Sets to Suit
   Task Demands and Support Parallelism
   Eric A. Domeshek

4. The Case for Nonconnectionist Associative Retrieval in Case-Based
   Reasoning Systems
   Piero P. Bonissone, Lisa F. Rau & George Berg

5. What is Metaphor?
   George Lakoff

6. A Structured Connectionist Model of Figurative Adjective-Noun
   Combinations
   Susan H. Weber

7. Back-Propagation Representations for the Rule-Analogy Continuum:
   Pros and Cons
   Catherine Harris

8. On the Connectionist Implementation of Analogy and Working Memory
   Matching
   John A. Barnden

Published 1994/392 pages
Cloth: 1-56750-101-X/$69.50 (*** $35.00 prepaid *** / no further discount applies)

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The two volumes described above form a natural sequel to the first volume of
the series, namely:

VOLUME ONE: ``HIGH-LEVEL CONNECTIONIST MODELS''
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Edited by 

  John A. Barnden
  Jordan B. Pollack

MAIN CONTENTS

1.  Introduction: Problems for High-Level Connectionism
    John A. Barnden & Jordan B. Pollack

2.  Connectionism and Compositional Semantics
    David S. Touretzky

3.  Symbolic NeuroEngineering for Natural Language Processing: A
    Multilevel Research Approach
    Michael G. Dyer

4.  Schema Recognition for Text Understanding: An Analog Semantic
    Feature Approach
    Lawrence A. Bookman & Richard Alterman

5.  A Context-Free Connectionist Parser Which Is Not Connectionist,
    But Then It Is Not Really Context-Free Either
    Eugene Charniak & Eugene Santos, Jr.

6.  Symbolic/Subsymbolic Sentence Analysis: Exploiting the Best of Two
    Worlds
    Wendy G. Lehnert

7.  Developing Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist Models
    James Hendler

8.  Encoding Complex Symbolic Data Structures with Some Unusual
    Connectionist Techniques
    John A. Barnden

9.  Finding a Maximally Plausible Model of an Inconsistent Theory
    Mark Derthick

10. The Relevance of Connectionism to AI: A Representation and
    Reasoning Perspective
    Lokendra Shastri

11. Steps Toward Knowledge-Intensive Connectionist Learning
    Joachim Diederich

12. Learning Simple Arithmetic Procedures
    Garrison W. Cottrell & Fu-Sheng Tsung

13. The Similarity Between Connectionist and Other Parallel
    Computation Models
    Jiawei Hong & Xiaonan Tan

14. Complex Features in Planning and Understanding: Problems and
    Opportunities for Connectionism 
    Lawrence Birnbaum

15. Conclusion
    Jordan B. Pollack & John A. Barnden

Published 1991/400 pages
Cloth: 0-89391-687-0/$67.50 (*** $34.50 prepaid ***/no further discount applies)