Automatically characterizing products through product aspects

Abstract

Like most front-end design and problem solving methodologies, TRIZ requires users to abstract their specific system or problem, analyze it through the methodology, and, if applicable, map it back to a specific situation. A methodology and algorithm are proposed that can eliminate this subjective and arduous mapping by formalizing automatically identified, fine-grained product dimensions or Product Aspects. These Product Aspects allow for automatic product characterization, which is a key technology to enable different automated functionalities in idea generation and problem solving contexts, such as automated trend analysis and searching for similar products. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.