Like Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting, individuals can solve more complex problems quicker and more efficiently than Internet-based group brainstorming, researchers at Sandia National ...

The term wicked problem has become a standard way for policy analysts to describe a social issue whose solution is inherently elusive. Wicked problems have many causal factors, complex ...

Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The Paris climate agreement is another example of an attempted grand solution to a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The three-year project will make major changes to the 215-unit complex on Main Street, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The New Haven school district was investigated after a complaint from a mother whose ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephan Manning, University of Sussex and Juliane Reinecke, King's College London; ...