Strangification, as the core strategy of Constructive Realism, seems to be a potential source for feeding the methodological aspects which are essential to the creation of novel artificial systems. Due to this, it is significant to see how far Strangification can contribute to issues such as knowledge processing and knowledge creation as central issues in many cognitive, systemics, and inter-disciplinary studies. Within this context, strangification is worth being considered as a new paradigm for knowledge processing & creation. This volume tries to show such a characteristic of strangification. Design, planning, assessment, fitting and concept creation have been selected as the major issues to support this demonstration.

The Authors: Kambiz Badie is the head of IT Research Faculty of Iran Telecom Research Center and a researcher in the areas of computational cognition, cognitive modeling and systemic knowledge processing in general, and analogical knowledge processing, and interpretative modeling with emphasis on idea/technique generation in particular. Maryam Tayefeh Mahmoudi is a researcher at IT Research Faculty of Iran Telecom Research Center working on knowledge management and content management in general, and idea generation and decision support systems in particular.