REGARDING strategy selection and maintenance Dear PPIGers I am attempting to find out references to research relating to strategy selection and problem solving. I have found some information which relates to strategy selection and metacognition, and relationships between cognitive abilities and strategy selection but my research interests lie with problem solving and programming and the varieties of strategies which can be used within software maintenance tasks. For example, what causes one strategy to be selected over another, under what cases would information be externalised and so on. I have heard the phrase 'cognitive cost' in relation to this but I am not quite sure where to look. I have also heard that Visser would be a good place to start. Could anybody give me any suitable pointers? Any information dearly appreciated. Thanks! Christopher Douce Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK.
