Resources Oriented Search: A Strategy to Transfer Knowledge in the TRIZ-CBR Synergy

The application of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) has proved its efficacy as a pragmatic approach to assist problem solving activities, to construct knowledge based decision systems and to support the organizational learning process. Nevertheless its application in innovative design, an activity that involves knowledge, problem solving activities, creativity and social interaction still being poor exploited. In this document, CBR is connected to the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving or TRIZ theory to propose a synergy capable to assist the innovation process. The synergy makes use of several TRIZ concepts, but in the present context, the relevance of available resource in a technical system as vector to drive problem solving activities and to transfer knowledge is emphasized.