Automated Invention for Smart Industries : 18th International TRIZ Future Conference, TFC 2018, Strasbourg, France, October 29–31, 2018, Proceedings (Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, held in Strasbourg, France, in October 2018 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.4. The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.

They are organized in seven thematic sections: teaching of TRIZ; TRIZ and knowledge represenations; biomimicry; strategic company management; association between TRIZ and other methods; TRIZ and the functional approach; and the use of patent or text populations as a data source.