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Creative Design Reasoning and Understanding Marin Simina and Janet Kolo dner College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA fmarin jlkgccgatech edu Abstract This pap er investigates memory issues that inuence long term creative problem solving and design activity taking a casebased reasoning p ersp ective Our exploration is based on a welldo cumented example the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell We abstract Bells reasoning and understanding mechanisms that app ear time and again in longterm creative design We identify that the under standing mechanism is resp onsible for analogical anticipation of design constraints and analogical evaluation b eside casebased design But an already understo o d design can satisfy opp ortunisti call y susp ended design problems still active in background The new mechanisms are integrated in a computational mo del ALEC 1 that accounts for some creative b e havior in casebased design Intro duction This pap er investigates memory mechanisms that inuence longterm creative problem solving and design activity from a casebased reasoning CBR Kolo d ner p ersp ective by integrating elements of mo delbased reasoning Go el Our exploration is based on a well do cumented example the invention of 2 the telephone Noteb o oks US v Bell Gorman Retrosp ectively the obvious question related to the invention of the telephone is what cognitive issues delayed the invention of the telephone till The basic principles of the telephone electromagnet