Systematic redesign services could help to produce new service innovation. The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) with its tools such as the 40 inventive principles and matrix of contradiction developed by Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues are important tools to generate new ideas and solutions for problem solving. Although TRIZ was developed for technical problems, the 40 inventive...

The paper presents a case study illustrating a collaborative problem solving process in Virtual Communities of Practice. The process relies on the existence of an underlying shared knowledge base – a repository of resources, and is carried out collaboratively by members of the community in six defined steps. The case study presents a Virtual Community of Practice dedicated to Disaster Preventio...

In today’s information society, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has become increasingly important. However, there are still problems regarding CSCL, especially interaction problems within groups. This study is an investigation of whether a specific kind of awareness tool, namely a tool for making the collaborators aware of relevant domain knowledge and the information underlyin...

Problem solving theory and practice suggest that thinking is more important to solving problems than knowledge and that it is possible to teach thinking in situations where little or no knowledge of the problem is needed. Such an assumption has led problem solving advocates to champion content-less heuristics as the primary element of problem solving while relegating the knowledge base and the ...

We outline various design considerations and implementation options pertaining to lightweight data management in problem solving environments (PSEs). The emphasis is on compositional modeling, in the context of a PSE for wireless communications system design (S W). By focusing on a restrictive subset of markup languages, we describe how facilities such as management of the execution environment...

Recently, the situatedness of learning has come to the center of attention in both research and practice, also a result of the insight that traditional learning methods in the form of large decontextualized courses lead to inert knowledge; i.e., knowledge that can be reproduced, but not applied to real-world problem solving. In order to avoid the inertness, pedagogy tries to set up authentic le...

The problem solving approach to teaching has long been promoted as the most effective method for teaching agriculture in the secondary schools. However, according to Crunkilton (1988), the problem solving approach to teaching agriculture has diminished in popularity in recent 'years. As a result, some agricultural educators have expressed concern about the quality of teaching in secondary agric...

Workflow management in problem solving environments (PSEs) is an emerging topic that aims to combine both data-oriented and execution-oriented views of scientific experiments, and closely integrate the processes underlying the practice of computational science with the software artifacts constituted by the PSE. This thesis presents a workflow management solution called BREW (BetteR Experiments ...

The main configuration scenarios occurring in the domain of technical products and systems are consistency checking, completing a partial configuration, reconfiguration of an inconsistent configuration and finding the best knowledge base for future reconfigurations. This paper presents OOASP a framework for the description of object-oriented product configurators using answer set programming an...