1.What is Extenics going to do?

There are all kinds of contradictory problems in the real world. For example, you need to weigh an elephant weighing several tons with a scale of maximum 200 kilograms; police needed to crack complicated cases with a little bit of information; inventors needed to design complex new production with small amounts of functional requirements with limited funds; connecting the systems of Left-hand traffic and right-hand traffic…These problems can be found everywhere in people’s life and work. Human society is developing the solution to all kinds of contradictory problems.

■Contradictory Problems

Cao Chong Weighed The Elephant		Transforming Bridge

One day somebody gave Cao Cao, the governor of Wei, an elephant．Cao Cao wanted to know its weight，but there was nothing big enough to weigh it on．Cao Chong told his father he could weigh the elephant if he had a big boat and heavy stones．Cao Cao and his subordinate were very surprised，but still he ordered his men to get everything ready．When they led the elephant down into the boat，the water came up，then Cao Chong marked the line of water．Then they drove the elephant onto the bank and put the heavy stones in the boat until the water came up to the same line．At last，Cao Chong told the men to weigh those stones．In this way，he got the weight of the elephant．

Can you come up with a smarter solution?

In HongKong, cars are driven on the left, while in the Mainland of China, cars are driven on the right. Traffic accident may happen if we connected the two into one.

Can you find a way to avoid traffic collision？

■In the past, smart people thought hard to find solutions to contradictory problems.

Well then, are there any rules to solve contradictory problems? Can we find a set of methods? Can we generate ideas of solving contradictory problems by following certain procedure? Can computers and internet help in any way?
From 1976, Chinese scholar Cai Wen began to study how to deal with contradictory problems. He hoped that, through the research, the creation of solving contradictory problems can be generated with certain rules and procedure rather than people’s inspiration.

Ideas can be generated—we can generate a batch of creative solution, including conception of all kinds of new products, projects and technology, by taking advantage of high speed and large storage capacity of computers.

2. What have the researchers of Extenics done in the past 28 years?

Built the Extension Theory System

From 1976, Cai Wen set about studying the basic theory and methods for dealing with incompatible problems. The paper "Extension Set and Incompatible Problem", published in 1983, marked the establishment of new science Extenics. Now, a research team has been formed with the efforts for more than 20 years

Built the preliminary theory system for solving contradictory problems

Extension Theory

Built the new method system——Extension Innovative method System

（1）Extension Analysis Method

（2）Conjugate Analysis Method

（3）Extension Transformation Method

（4）Extension Set Method

（5）Excellent Degree Evaluation Method

（6）Extension Innovative Generation Method

Carried out application in computer science, design, management, control and detection, etc, developed the Extension software for strategy generation—called Extension Engineering.

Developed intelligent system for thinking ideas and methods—Extension Strategy Eeneration Method and Extension Data Mining Method

Studies Based on Application in Management -- Extension Marketing、Extension Planning、Extension Decision

Studies Based on Application of Extenics in the field of design—Extension Design

Studies Based on Application of Extenics in the field of control and detection -- Extension Control、Extension Detecting

Extenics=Extension Theory＋Extension Method＋Extension Engineering

The Definition of Extenics

Extenics is a science ?using formal model to research the extension possibility of things, the rules and methods of innovation, and applying all of them to solve contradictory problems. In a word, Extenics studies the theories and methods of innovation and has become the theoretical foundation and method source for innovation and creation. The research objective of Exenics is contradictory problems. Its basic theory is Extension Theory, its method system is Extension Method (also called Extension Innovative Method because it’s particularly applicable to innovation), and its basic logic is Extension Logic. And the integration of Extenics with other fields formed the Extension Engineering. Extenics is made up of Extension Theory, Extension Innovative Method and Extension Engineering

The disciplinary framework of Extenics: