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Problem solving: Definition: What is the definition of a problem?

May 2nd, 2008 07:10
Knud van Eeden, Sakir Ali, Joseph Martin, dman, Ansheel Khandelwal, Joe Pike,

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Problem solving: definition: what is the definition of a problem?

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A problem could be defined as that
'what is' is not equal to 'what is desired'.

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[book: source: Rubinstein, Moshe - patterns of problem solving - 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0131227068/qid=1065650322/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/002-0122962-7851254?
v=glance&s=books&n=507846#product-details]

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A problem could be defined as the state of an intelligent system which
does not know how to proceed from a given state to a desired goal
state.

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Some people have argued that all human activity is some sort of problem
solving or directed towards accomplishing some goal.

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[Internet: source: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/85-211b/Problem-
solving.html]

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