This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference on AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design, TFC 2025, held in Paris, France, during November 5–7, 2025.
The 48 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were focused on topical section as below.
Part I: Neuro-Symbolic and AI-Assisted Contradictions; Generative Agents for Ideation and Design; Tech Mining, Forecasting and Cross-Domain Exploration; Modeling, Verification and Optimization of Technical Systems and Frameworks for Digital Transformation and Industry 5.0.
Part II Cognition, Causality and Systematic Prototyping; Innovation Governance and Standardization; Innovation Governance and Standardization; Data, Forecasting and Intelligent Services and User Experience and Interoperable Public Policies.
.- Cognition, Causality and Systematic Prototyping. .- Application of System Thinking and Thinking Through Contradiction for Information Quality Assessment. .- Enhancing AI-Generated Solutions With Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (V-RAG): A Framework for Problem Formulation. .- A New TRIZ-Based Approach for Resolving Contradictions in the Design of Lean 5.0 Manufacturing Systems. .- AI-Driven Inventive Design and TRIZ for an Affordable, High-Efficiency Solar Tracking System. .- AI-Driven Robot Programming Optimization Using TRIZ Principles for Efficient and Seamless Deployment. .- Innovation Governance and Standardization. .- AI-Aided Anticipatory Protection of Inventions Against Technical Non-Infringing Patent Circumvention. .- Reinventing TRIZ Through Emergent Insight and the Power of Cognitive Negation. .- AI-Augmented Discovery of Inventive Principles for Self-Contradictory Parameters in the TRIZ Matrix. .- Can Storytelling Increase Engineers’ Motivation to Learn TRIZ Through Digital E-Learning?. .- Innovation Governance and Standardization. .- AI-Powered Patent Classification: A Hybrid Approach Merging Algorithms and LLMs. .- A Symbolically-Guided Explorative AI Framework for Early-Stage Inventive Design. .- Dynamic Swarm Intelligence and Generative AI for Integrated Inventive Design. .- A Structured Decision-Making Framework for Evaluating TRIZ Solutions Using Multi-Criteria Analysis. .- TRIZ Meets SPRINT: A Structured Approach to Sustainable Filtration Design With AI-Based Comparative Reflections. .- Solving Complex Engineering Problems With AI-Assisted TRIZ: A Case Study in Reducing Water Consumption in a Urea Plant Cooling Tower. .- Clean Fire, Green Future: Inventive Solutions for Waste-to-Energy Technology. .- Bridging the Innovation Gap: Insights From an Electrostatic Dust Precipitator for Mongolia. .- Data, Forecasting and Intelligent Services. .- Innovative Dryer Packaging Design Based on AI-TRIZ. .- A Methodological Framework Integrating TRIZ and AI to Address Complex Design Contradictions: Application to an Innovative Prosthetic Thumb. .- From Patents to TRIZ Templates: A Parameter-Efficient Framework for Technical Contradiction Analysis. .- Breaking Industry Barriers: Using AI to Contextualize TRIZ Principles Across Diverse Sectors. .- Requirement- and Service Quality-Driven Service Design for Cross-Border E-Commerce Export Service Optimization Incorporated With TRIZ and Generative AI. .- User Experience and Interoperable Public Policies. .- Ontology-Based AI Agent for VCM. .- AI-Based Metric for the Scientific Text Novelty. .- Holistic TRIZ: Extending the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving to All Types of Systems.
