Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for
facilitating multiple users or teams or a group of users or individual
users in the development of user thinking about an arbitrary problem in a
customized or specialized manner. The system includes logic to facilitate
user specification of a problem structure, or a conclusion, or both, and
facilitation of specification of a knowledge structure, related to the
arbitrary problem. Some embodiments of the systems and methods further
provide for the sharing of user models regarding the arbitrary problem.