Retrospective analysis for knowledge-based idea generation of new artifacts

摘要

In this article idea processors are studied as creativity supporting systems. Two related reviews are presented. The first review examines some aspects of idea processors and compares them with some existing work from AI research community. The second review is concerned with using retrospective analysis for technical invention (particularly the invention of artifacts). Retrospective analysis not only opens new opportunities for knowledge-based approaches in idea generation, but also offers new mechanisms to deal with some problems faced by idea processors using object-oriented features. To illustrate our new approach of idea generation, we also provide a brief sketch of our project which uses a Prolog program to implement some key ideas presented in this article.