Application driven software for chemistry

This paper provides a brief introduction to application driven software technology and its usage in the development of a new computer-based problem solving methodology. This new methodology is based on the principle of ldquotake the computer to the problemrdquo rather than ldquotaken the problem to the computerrdquo as done by current computer-based problem solving process. We illustrate our research in the chemistry domain with the problem of finding acid dissociation constants in chemical reactions.