Computer aided innovation
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Autor
Παπαϊωάννου, ΕλένηCommittee member
Χούστης, Ηλίας Ν.
Χούστη, Αικατερίνη
Supervisor name
Βάβαλης, Εμμανουήλ
Datum
2008Language
en
Access
free
Zusammenfassung
Innovation plays a crucial role in the development and the sustainability of the economy.
Regardless its importance and the numerous national and international programs to
promote and support innovation, it still remains an ad-hoc process based on hand-shaking
and brainstorming. It is expected that Computer Aided Innovation (CAI) will have an
impact similar to the one that Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Engineering
had to Manufacturing.
In thesis we investigate the notion of CAI and try to collect the essential elements that
might lead to a systematic approach for innovation. Specifically we first review the
available theories and frameworks that have the potential to provide the necessary
background for future CAI systems. Specifically we consider TRIZ, ARIZ, QFD, SIX
SIGMA and few others which they surely have a common objective but so far they seem to
be unrelated from most other aspects. We compare them and try to identify their conceptual
similarities and their common components at the semantic level.
Furthermore, we have systematically collected the available software systems for
Innovation and interrelated them to our theoretical review. We conclude by proposing a
semantic based software platform for CAI and investigate the critical issues concerning its
implementation
Academic publisher
Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας. Πολυτεχνική Σχολή. Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών.