• 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...
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    J. (1980). The complete problem solver. Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute Press. Huber, O. (1995). "Complex problem solving as multistage decision making"...
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  • spanning tree problems Combinatorial optimization Game solvers for problems in game theory Three-body problem The General Problem Solver (GPS) is a particular...
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  • the Logic Theorist, and was one of the developers of General Problem Solver (universal problem solver machine) and Information Processing Language (a programming...
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  • of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theorist (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957). He and Simon were awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award in...
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  • problem solving Cyc Deductive reasoning Divergent thinking Educational psychology Executive function Facilitation (business) General Problem Solver Inductive...
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  • 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...
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  • problem solving Cyc Deductive reasoning Divergent thinking Educational psychology Executive function Facilitation (business) General Problem Solver Inductive...
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  • CSPs represent the entities in a problem as a homogeneous collection of finite constraints over variables, which is solved by constraint satisfaction methods...
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  • In computing, the Two Generals' Problem is a thought experiment meant to illustrate the pitfalls and design challenges of attempting to coordinate an...
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  • and optimization problems, are at most as difficult to solve as SAT. There is no known algorithm that efficiently solves each SAT problem (where "efficiently"...
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  • science and formal methods, a SAT solver is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). On input a formula over Boolean...
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  • problem in computer science If the solution to a problem is easy to check for correctness, must the problem be easy to solve? More unsolved problems in...
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  • "The Problem Solvers" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 63rd overall episode of the...
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  • lit. 'theory of inventive problem solving') is a methodology that combines an organized, systematic method of problem-solving with analysis and forecasting...
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  • Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in their computer problem-solving program General Problem Solver (GPS). In that implementation, the correspondence between...
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  • heuristic function is used General Problem Solver: a seminal theorem-proving algorithm intended to work as a universal problem solver machine. Iterative deepening...
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    2005, the travelling salesman problem of visiting all 33,810 points in a circuit board was solved using Concorde TSP Solver: a tour of length 66,048,945...
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  • The Problem Solvers Caucus is a group in the United States House of Representatives that has included members equally divided between Democrats and Republicans...
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  • co-written, such as Logic Theorist and the General Problem Solver, and his psychological research on human problem solving. AI research in the 1950s and 60s had...
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    and symbolic representations. One approach is to solve this "Binding problem" (that is, the problem of dynamically representing conjunctions of informational...
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  • In planning and policy, a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements...
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  • The general group problem solving model (GGPS model) is a problem solving methodology, in which a group of individuals will define the desired outcome...
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  • sharing, an algorithm to fairly share computer processing time General Problem Solver, a 1959 computer program Satellite navigation, GPS (global positioning...
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  • state of the art solver for moderately-sized, hard instances is the Glasgow Subgraph Solver (McCreesh, Prosser & Trimble (2020)). This solver adopts a constraint...
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  • computerized knowledge representation was focused on general problem-solvers such as the General Problem Solver (GPS) system developed by Allen Newell and Herbert...
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    system were general problem solvers. These were systems such as the General Problem Solver designed by Newell and Simon. General problem solvers attempted...
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    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...
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    a mechanical device to solve the problem. Later mathematicians, starting with Jack M. Elkin [de] in 1965, solved the problem algebraically as the solution...
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  • this work to create a domain-independent problem solver, GPS (General Problem Solver). GPS solved problems represented with formal operators via state-space...
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