A novel ideation causal map with a new evaluation for Ideas Quality
Ali I. Eldesoky, Hesham Ali, Asmaa M. El-Said · 2009
In an information technology era, knowledge is always changing, hence the flexibility in approach and in thinking is a must. Since, the on-going conversation about semantic knowledge (many ideas with many relations) is much more important than coming up with the right answer (idea), so performing some inferences is needed for an exploration of creative diverse ideas. By combining many ideas with many relations, more novel and useful ideas are found. Representing such combination requires a special structure (called idea map). This paper introduces an efficient ideas map as a graph structure for diverse ideas and their relationships, called Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (ODAG) algorithm. Moreover, formulating a new evaluation of the creative ideas, called Creative Ideas Quality (CIQ) algorithm by allowing agents to link diverse ideas dynamically. These diverse ideas are generated from an intelligent inference mechanism, which based on the principles of idea associations; similarity, contrast and contiguity.