Copyright c 2017 for the individual papers by their authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
Symposium Chairs Ana-Maria Olteteanu, University of Bremen Zoe Falomir Llansola, University of Bremen
Local Organizing Committee Dorothe Poggel, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study Marion Daniel, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study This book contains the accepted papers at ProSocrates’17 Symposium: Problem-solving, Creativity and Spatial Reasoning in Cognitive Systems1. ProSocrates’17 symposium was held at the Hansewissenschaftkolleg (HWK) of Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst, 20-21 July 2017. This was the second edition of this symposium which tries to bring together researchers interested in spatial reasoning, problem solving and creativity.
These ProSocrates’17 proceedings contains 6 accepted papers that were presented at the symposium. Each submitted paper was reviewed by two/three program committee members. Moreover, there were 6 invited talks whose abstracts are also included in these proceedings.
The funding from the Hansewissenschaftkolleg (HWK) of Advanced Studies2 is gratefully acknowledged.
The support from the projects Cognitive Qualitative Descriptions and Applications3 (CogQDA) funded by the University of Bremen and Creative Problem Solving in Cognitive Systems4 (CreaCogs) funded by DFG are acknowledged. The collaboration from our colleagues at Bremen Spatial Cognition Centre (BSCC) is also acknowledged.
We would like also to thank the members of the Scientific Committee for their valuable work during the reviewing process and the additional reviews.
We also thank Easychair, which was used to manage paper submissions and reviewing the proceedings, and CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) for indexing these proceedings.
1ProSocrates’17: https://prosocrates.wordpress.com/ 2HWK: http://www.h-w-k.de/ 3CogQDA: https://sites.google.com/site/cogqda/ 4CreaCogs: http://creacogcomp.com/
• Reasoning at a Distance by Way of Conceptual Metaphors and Blends
Marco Schorlemmer • Symbolic models and computational properties of constructive reasoning in cognition and creativity
Tarek Besold • Creating and rating harmonic colour palettes for a given style
Lled´o Museros • Creative Support Companions: Some Ideas
Ken Forbus • Modeling visual problem-solving as analogical reasoning
Andrew Lovett • Thinking Like A Child: The Role of Surface Similarities in Stimulating Creativity
Bipin Indurkhya
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