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Context: It has been argued that software engineering replications are useful for verifying the results of previous experiments. However, it has not yet been agreed how to check whether the results hold across replications. Besides, some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Adrian Santos , Sira Vegas , Markku Oivo , Natalia Juristo

Analogy-making is central to human cognition, allowing us to adapt to novel situations -- an ability that current AI systems still lack. Most analogy datasets today focus on simple analogies (e.g., word analogies); datasets including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Oren Sultan , Yonatan Bitton , Ron Yosef , Dafna Shahaf

Plagiarism detection in programming education faces growing challenges due to increasingly sophisticated obfuscation techniques, particularly automated refactoring-based attacks. While code plagiarism detection systems used in education…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Robin Maisch , Larissa Schmid , Timur Sağlam , Nils Niehues

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation process in some languages that is often problematic for natural language processing applications. In this paper, we investigate whether distributional semantics in the form of word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Joachim Daiber , Lautaro Quiroz , Roger Wechsler , Stella Frank

The use of approximation is fundamental in computational science. Almost all computational methods adopt approximations in some form in order to obtain a favourable cost/accuracy trade-off and there are usually many approximations that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Michael A. Johnston , Vassilis Vassiliadis

In this work we present work in progress on functionality duplication detection in logic programs. Eliminating duplicated functionality recently became prominent in context of refactoring. We describe a quantitative approach that allows to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexander Serebrenik , Wim Vanhoof

Analogical proportions are statements of the form "A is to B as C is to D". They constitute an inference tool that provides a logical framework to address learning, transfer, and explainability concerns and that finds useful applications in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Safa Alsaidi , Amandine Decker , Esteban Marquer , Pierre-Alexandre Murena , Miguel Couceiro

Building on a specific formalization of analogical relationships of the form "A relates to B as C relates to D", we establish a connection between two important subfields of artificial intelligence, namely analogical reasoning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Mohsen Ahmadi Fahandar , Eyke Hüllermeier

Effective visualization retrieval necessitates a clear definition of similarity. Despite the growing body of work in specialized visualization retrieval systems, a systematic approach to understanding visualization similarity remains…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Huyen N. Nguyen , Nils Gehlenborg

Many patterns in nature exhibit self-similarity: they can be compactly described via self-referential transformations. Said patterns commonly appear in natural and artificial objects, such as molecules, shorelines, galaxies and even images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Michael Poli , Winnie Xu , Stefano Massaroli , Chenlin Meng , Kuno Kim , Stefano Ermon

Analogy-making between narratives is crucial for human reasoning. In this paper, we evaluate the ability to identify and generate analogies by constructing a first-of-its-kind large-scale story-level analogy corpus, \textsc{StoryAnalogy},…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Cheng Jiayang , Lin Qiu , Tsz Ho Chan , Tianqing Fang , Weiqi Wang , Chunkit Chan , Dongyu Ru , Qipeng Guo , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Yue Zhang , Zheng Zhang

Artificial Intelligence federates numerous scientific fields in the aim of developing machines able to assist human operators performing complex treatments -- most of which demand high cognitive skills (e.g. learning or decision processes).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Sébastien Harispe , Sylvie Ranwez , Stefan Janaqi , Jacky Montmain

Principles of analogical reasoning have recently been applied in the context of machine learning, for example to develop new methods for classification and preference learning. In this paper, we argue that, while analogical reasoning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Eyke Hüllermeier

With distributed computing and mobile applications, synchronizing diverging replicas of data structures is a more and more common problem. We use algebraic methods to reason about filesystem operations, and introduce a simplified definition…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Elod Pal Csirmaz

The SEMAT kernel is a thoroughly thought generic framework for Software Engineering system development in practice. But one should be able to test its characteristics by means of a no less generic theory matching the SEMAT kernel. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Iaakov Exman

Most computational models of analogy assume they are given a delineated source domain and often a specified target domain. These systems do not address how analogs can be isolated from large domains and spontaneously retrieved from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Marc Pickett , David W. Aha

In this work we consider the problem of learning a positive semidefinite kernel matrix from relative comparisons of the form: "object A is more similar to object B than it is to C", where comparisons are given by humans. Existing solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Eric Heim , Hamed Valizadegan , Milos Hauskrecht

We target the problem of provably computing the equivalence between two complex expression trees. To this end, we formalize the problem of equivalence between two such programs as finding a set of semantics-preserving rewrite rules from one…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Steve Kommrusch , Théo Barollet , Louis-Noël Pouchet

This study investigates whether large language models, specifically GPT4, can match human capabilities in analogical reasoning within strategic decision making contexts. Using a novel experimental design involving source to target matching,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Phanish Puranam , Prothit Sen , Maciej Workiewicz

The main deficiency of the algorithms running on digital computers nowadays is their inability to change themselves during the execution. In line with this, the paper introduces the so-called replicated algorithms, inspired by the concept…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Iztok Fister , Iztok Fister