The Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies is holding its ninth annual international conference, TRIZCON2007, at the Louisville Marriott Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky. The event, to be held April 23th through 25th, is the premier TRIZ event of the year in the U.S.
I will be presenting at TRIZCON2007 and will post interesting news from the event. The abstract of my session follows:
Title: FUNCTION MODELING FOR THE REST OF US
Abstract:
To quickly move from problem to inventive solution, a clear understanding of the problem at hand is necessary. The process of identifying the right problem statement is embedded at the core of both TRIZ and ARIZ. Among the many tools available to TRIZ practitioners, function modeling is extremely helpful to achieve a deeper understanding of the system being examined and arrive at a clear definition of the problem. Unfortunately, function modeling can be very difficult for the novice practitioner--thinking functionally is unfamiliar.
Recent advances in computational linguistics now make it possible for the TRIZ novice to approach the practice of function modeling with confidence. By tapping into a broad “informational fund”, practitioners can leverage knowledge beyond their own personal experience and gain insights into the mereological and functional relationships required to accurately abstract their system for function modeling. Expert TRIZ practitioners can also benefit by having a virtual subject matter expert supplement their creative insights.
In this session, the benefits to TRIZ practice through the application of advanced computational linguistics to function modeling are explored.
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