Creativity and information search in a problem-solving context

Creativity in Problem Solving : A matter of Context

Aid for Innovative decision-making is one of the techniques Decision Support Systems should provide to the user. Contrary to modeling analogy, we propose an approach based on problem solving through the finding of substitutes with contextual categorizations that could help having insight solution and through the use of contextual graphs to evaluate how much a substitute is of help.

Situated creativity-inspired problem-solving

Exploring Antecedents and Consequences of Consumer Creativity in a Problem-Solving Context

Creativity is an underresearched topic in consumer behavior, yet integral in many instances of consumer problem solving. Two experiments were conducted to investigate antecedents and consequences of creativity in a consumption context. The results indicate that both situational factors (i.e., time constraints, situational involvement) and person factors (i.e., locus of control, metaphoric think...

CreEx: A Framework for Creativity in Cooperative Problem Solving

Creativity has become an important factor in recent years, as companies need to be able to quickly adapt to take advantage of new opportunities and handle fast paced changes in their environment. Creativity theorists have proposed models to explain creative thought that go beyond the individual to encompass social aspects of creativity. However, most existing research concerns an individual and...

Context in problem solving: a survey

Context appears in Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a challenge for the coming years as shown by the various scientific events focusing on context held since 1995. However, context is already considered in other domains, such as Natural Language Processing, although through few aspects of context. We present in this paper a survey of the literature dealing directly and explicitly with context wh...