---
title: "Inter-diagrammatic Reasoning"
authors:
  - "Michael Anderson"
  - "Robert McCartney"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/114"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0114.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "878-883"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# Inter-diagrammatic Reasoning

Michael Anderson, Robert McCartney

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 878-883.

## Abstract

Endowing a computer with an ability to reason with diagrams could be of great benefit in terms of both human-computer interaction and computational efficiency through explicit representation. To date, research in diagrammatic reasoning has dealt with intra-diagrammatic reasoning (reasoning with a single diagram) almost to the exclusion of inter-diagrammatic reasoning (reasoning with related groups of diagrams). We postulate a number of general inter-diagrammatic operators and show how such operators can be useful in various diagrammatic domains. We develop a heuristic in the domain of game notation, derive fmgering information in the domain of musical notation, and infer new information from related cartograms.