Knowledge creation requires identifying and pursuing promising ideas—ideas that in their nascent form may not seem like much but that with development could grow into something big. The goal of our research is to develop a tool to explore the concept of promisingness and “big ideas,” especially elementary school students’ ability to make “promisingness judgments” regarding ideas in peer discour...

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This paper presents an approach for the preliminary design of complex physical systems in framework engineering. is centered on activities and actors involved pre-design tasks. It focuses modeling problems with DEPS (DEsign Problem Specification), a recent formalism specifying methodology completes simulation-based analysis approaches, which are mainly used today systems. In particular, our all...

This paper explores the sources of ideas for innovation in engineering design. The paper shows that engineering designers involved in complex, non-routine design processes rely heavily on face-to-face conversations with other designers for solving problems and developing new innovative ideas. The research is based on a case study and survey of designers from Ove Arup & Partners, a leading inter...

Design of Scheduling Algorithms Using Game Theoretic Ideas