Principia Analogiae 2025

June 19-21, 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal

Analogical reasoning is a remarkable human capability, allowing us to adapt to novel situations - an ability that current AI systems still lack.

Much research has suggested that analogies are key to non-brittle systems that can adapt to new domains. Attempts to attack this problem have been fragmented, with different groups focusing on narrow aspects of the problem, each group using their own separate evaluation metrics. We believe that the lack of unifying foundational mathematical frameworks and evaluation benchmarks has been limiting progress in analogy research.

With this conference we aim to bring together leading experts from various research and applied fields to join forces, share perspectives, and collectively define the research agenda for the immediate future. Recognizing the need for foundational work in this area, we seek unifying frameworks, methodologies, and basic principles that will serve as the cornerstone for future advancements.

Principia Analogiae 2025 will involve keynote presentations, followed by working groups to tackle several challenges related to analogy theory and applications. These will be soon announced.

The conference is free of charge but registration is mandatory and places are limited.

Register Here before 10 of April, 2025!

Memories from Principia Analogiae 2025

Some collected memories: Enjoy!

Schedule

Day 1 (19.6): “Framing the Field” — Orient, Connect, and Surface Key Themes

Time	Session	Details
09:30 - 10:15	Opening & Welcome	Campus Map ZOOM
10:15 – 11:00	Lightning Talks: ‘What is the most important research question we should pursue? (and what shouldn't we spend time on?)’ 7 speakers in 7 minutes: Dafna Shahaf (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ken Forbus (Northwestern University) Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) Mario Figueiredo (University of Lisbon) Yves Lepage (Waseda University) Zied Bouraoui (Université d'Artois) Sundong Kim (GIST AI)
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee & Connection
11:30 – 12:30	Research Speed Dating
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	WG Marketplace + Breakout Round 1
16:00 – 17:00	Plenary Shareback + Common Threads Board
18:30+	Casual Dinner + Powerpoint Karaoke

Day 2 (20.6): “Making With Analogy” — Build, Test, Create

Time	Session	Details
09:00 – 09:30	Morning Warm-Up:	Campus Map ZOOM
09:30 – 10:30	Provocations: Aniket Kittur Niki (Carnegie Mellon University) Pedro Resende (University of Lisbon) Hila Lifshitz-Assaf (Warwick Business School) given by Steven Randazzo (Warwick Business School)
10:30 – 12:00	WG Breakout Round 2: Deep Dive
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	Cross-Pollination Lab
15:00 – 16:00	WG Breakout Round 3
16:00 – 17:00	Feedback Gallery + Voting
20:00+	Dinner at “Cantinho do Avilez”	Cantinho do Avillez - Parque das Nações

Day 3 (21.6): “Where Do We Go From Here?” — Synthesize & Seed Action

Time	Session	Details
10:00 – 12:30	WG Breakout Round 4: Commitments & Prototypes	Campus Map ZOOM
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Closing Fair: Show & Tell from Each WG
15:30 – 16:30	Closing Ritual
16:30+	Chill hangout (Optional)

Day 4 (22.6, Optional)

Time	Session	Details
10:00+	Tour of Lisbon in the morning

Working Groups:

These are tentative breakout working groups

WG1 - Foundations: Formalization, Abstraction, conceptualization

D. Gentner & Y. Lepage

WG2 - Applications and Benchmarks: Models, Multimodality, Uncertainty

S. Kim & S. Randazzo

WG3 - XAI: Explanation, Adaptation, Semantics, causality

M. Figueiredo & D. Leake

WG4 - Scientific Discovery: HMI, Business, Innovation

Z. Bouraoui & A. Kittur

organizing committee

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Miguel Couceiro

INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Dafna Shahaf

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Pierre Monnin

Université Côte d'Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France

Zied Bouraoui

Université d’Artois, CRIL, CNRS, France

Local Organization Team

Elisabete Fonseca

DEI, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa, Portugal

José Luís