Extenics is a new discipline: Using the formal model to study the extension possibility of things, the rules and methods of innovation. It aims to help people in various industries solve contradictory problems according to some procedures or using computer and network, and is also referred to as intelligent processing of contradictory problems (IPCP). This paper summarizes the research progress on extension set and incompatible problems, transforming bridge and antithetical problems, and intelligent processing of contradictory problems.

extenics  /  contradictory problem  /  extension set  /  transforming bridge  /  intelligent processing