Problem-solving tasks are set as a regular part of the course work on most courses in science, mathematics and technology, and in some social science courses as well. They are seen as an important part of the students’ work because they require the application of knowledge and principles to new situations, thus testing and reinforcing the students’ real understanding of what they have learned. ...

During creative problem solving, initial solution attempts often fail because of self-imposed constraints that prevent us from thinking out of the box. In order to solve a problem successfully, the problem representation has to be restructured by combining elements of available knowledge in novel and creative ways. It has been suggested that sleep supports the reorganization of memory represent...

The work we describe here is a part of a research program of developing foundations of declarative solving of search problems. We consider the model expansion task as the task representing the essence of search problems where we are given an instance of a problem and are searching for a solution satisfying certain properties. Such tasks are common in artificial intelligence, formal verification...

Background and objectives: The current paper examined the relationship between problem solving ability and quality of life of mothers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children in Isfahan. Method & Materials: This is a descriptive correlational study.  Population consisted of mothers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children in Isfahan. Sample was selected from one autism center out of thre...

This paper introduces a human-agent interaction framework that allows human and computational mechanisms to interact in a seamless manner to collaboratively perform problem solving tasks in the Semantic Web. The framework is based on a combination of services supported by intermediate domain ontologies and flexible mapping mechanisms that map agent and human internal representations and externa...

In recent years, case-based reasoning researchers have started to address tasks that have traditionally been coped with by the Information Retrieval community, namely the handling of textual documents. When considering the roots of CBR, this development is not surprising at all: As discussed already in Chapter 1, the fundamental idea of this problem solving paradigm is to collect experiences fr...