Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from...

Creative problem-solving (CPS) is the mental process of searching for an original and previously unknown solution to a problem. To qualify, the solution...

perspectives and different ideas when it comes to problem solving. D2: Describe the Problem: Specify the problem by identifying in quantifiable terms the who...

A3 problem solving is a structured problem-solving and continuous-improvement approach, first employed at Toyota and typically used by lean manufacturing...

General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert A. Simon, J. C. Shaw, and Allen Newell (RAND Corporation) intended to work...

Rock Problem Solvers Caucus, in U.S. politics Problem solving This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Problem Solvers. If an...

The Problem Solvers Caucus is a group in the United States House of Representatives that has included members equally divided between Democrats and Republicans...

cooperative distributed problem solving is a network of semi-autonomous processing nodes working together to solve a problem, typically in a multi-agent...

practical applications can be solved much more quickly. See §Algorithms for solving SAT below. Like the satisfiability problem for arbitrary formulas, determining...

Social problem-solving, in its most basic form, is defined as problem solving as it occurs in the natural environment. More specifically it refers to the...

insight-solving from non-insight solving (by asking the respondent to describe how they solved the problem, for example), the risk that non-insight solving has...

founder and chief executive officer of Art of Problem Solving Inc. and a co-author of the Art of Problem Solving textbooks. Rusczyk was a national Mathcounts...

complex problem solving techniques, it has been the subject of academic study. The study, argues that Ricochet Robots is a good game to analyze problem solving...

edited and supplemented in 2005 with Feynman's Tips on Physics: A Problem-Solving Supplement to the Feynman Lectures on Physics by Michael Gottlieb and...

the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica offered prizes for steps in solving the problem. Notable contributions were made by George Dantzig, Delbert Ray Fulkerson...

"Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies" is a paper on energy economics by Joseph Tainter from 1996. It focuses on the energy cost of problem solving...

Means–ends analysis (MEA) is a problem solving technique used commonly in artificial intelligence (AI) for limiting search in AI programs. It is also...

A Fermi problem (or Fermi question, Fermi quiz), also known as an order-of-magnitude problem, is an estimation problem in physics or engineering education...

lit. 'theory of inventive problem solving') is a methodology that combines an organized, systematic method of problem-solving with analysis and forecasting...

general, to use mathematics for solving a real-world problem, the first step is to construct a mathematical model of the problem. This involves abstraction...

In planning and policy, a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements...

Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI), originally known as Future Problem Solving Program (FPSP), and often abbreviated to FPS, is a non-profit...

The Noetic Learning math contest is a national biannual problem-solving competition for elementary and middle school students. The contest aims to encourage...

CSPs represent the entities in a problem as a homogeneous collection of finite constraints over variables, which is solved by constraint satisfaction methods...

chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with...

As a problem-structuring and problem-solving technique, morphological analysis was designed for multi-dimensional, non-quantifiable problems where causal...

Problem-solving courts (PSC) address the underlying problems that contribute to criminal behavior and are a current trend in the legal system of the United...

are called NP-complete problems. An algorithm solving such a problem in polynomial time is also able to solve any other NP problem in polynomial time. If...

been proposed to remove ghosting in the medical images. The iterative problem solving method is a ghost correction algorithm that removes ghosting that occurs...

may be solved either numerically or symbolically. Solving an equation numerically means that only numbers are admitted as solutions. Solving an equation...