"refine the problem" is a perfectly acceptable and usable phrase in written English.
You might use this phrase when you are trying to narrow down or more clearly define the particular problem that you are facing. For example, "We need to refine the problem if we are to find a suitable solution."
The encouraging recent progress prompts us to refine the problem to cover more realistic situations.
Now, to further refine the problem, it is not just that the editorial side is reporting to business, but that the business side largely consists of failed salesman.
The initial task of the LCT is to refine the problem initially identified by the Executive Sponsor and the Facility Sponsor, and to reduce the problem into components that can be individually addressed.
Refining the problem from friendship designs to geometric friendship designs allows us to state some structure results about these geometric friendship designs and decrease the search space when searching for geometric friendship designs.
Simulation experiments The simulation was used in a series of experiments, as summarized in Table 2, refining the problem specification and introducing additional complexities in a phased series of experiments to help develop understanding.
The scoping process also incorporated surveillance and ecologic epidemiology to refine the definition of the problem and generate hypotheses.
But even if Google TV one day becomes more refined, the central problem remains: on the Web, videos routinely freeze, stutter, take forever to load or show "missing plug-in" error messages.
CrossWalk starts profiling at the user level, profiles the main function, then its callees and walks further down the application call graph, refining the performance problem to a particular function.
As a result, C-K theory represents a good way for structuring design reasoning mostly in the conceptual phases of product innovation and development and it may be also used to explore market information, while TRIZ is suitable for formulating and refining the design problem in a structured way.
In the present work we advance the existing knowledge about the problem on hand by conducting its optimality analysis, which leads to a better informed and an easier problem solution: First, we refine the existing closed-form solution, which simplifies problem solving and its analysis.
The problem is stated clearly; all potential solutions are brainstormed and listed; each possible solution is evaluated in terms of its main advantages and disadvantages; the most practical solution is chosen; implementation is carefully planned; and the outcome of the implementation efforts is reviewed and refined until the problem has been resolved.
