Special Issue Part 1 ~Issue 3! and Part 2 ~Issue 4! of AIEDAM are based on a workshop on Learning and Creativity held at the 2002 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design, AID ’02 ~www.cad.strath.ac.uk0AID02_workshop0Work shop_webpage.html; Gero, 2002!, the sixth of similar workshops, with the previous five focusing on Machine Learning in Design and being held at AIDs ’92, ’94, ’96, ’98,...

What sort of contribution has Cognitive Science to offer to the understanding of creativity? Is it appropriate to investigate creative processes from a mechanistic perspective or do they involve subjective elements which cannot in principle be investigated from such a perspective? These two basic questions will guide this paper which investigates creativity focusing on the nature of abductive r...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate effects of self-leadership strategies on staff creativity of government departments of Kabood Rahang region, Iran. This descriptive study has been correlative and applied in terms of nature. Statistical population of this study includes a number of employees of government departments of Kabood Rahang Province that are 800 members and 260 members ...

Researchers are of the belief that employee voice has favorable effects for both the employee and the organization. However, the effect of employee voice on creativity, and the process through which it influences creativity, has hitherto received little attention. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between perceived employee voice and creativity. Employees of three premier dairy...

1. Introduction Ecosystem management requires multi-layered governance systems that can match social and ecological structures and processes operating at different spatial and temporal scales (Folke et al. 1998b, Berkes et al. 2003). It also requires flexible, learning-based management systems that can deal with the change and uncertainty inherent in social-ecological systems. Certain instituti...