一般问题解决器 (General Problem Solver)是由Herbert Simon、J.C. Shaw和Allen Newell三人于1957年创建的一个计算机进程，基于Simon和Newell的关于逻辑机的研究，用以作为普遍问题解决机。原理上，任何形式化的符号问题都可以被此进程解决。例如，定理证明，几何问题以及国际象棋对抗。GPS是第一个将待解决的问题的知识和策略分离的计算机进程。

一般问题求解器（GPS）是人类解决问题的模拟进程（1969年安永会计师事务所纽厄尔，纽厄尔和西蒙，1972）的形式表示的理论。该计划和相关的理论框架有一个显着的影响，在随后的认知心理学方向。它也介绍了使用的制作方法指定认知模式。

General Problem Solver or G.P.S. was a computer program created in 1959 by Herbert A. Simon, J.C. Shaw, and Allen Newell intended to work as a universal problem solver machine. Any problem that can be expressed as a set of well-formed formulas (WFFs) or Horn clauses, and that constitute a directed graph with one or more sources (viz., axioms) and sinks (viz., desired conclusions), can be solved, in principle, by GPS. Proofs in the predicate logic and Euclidean geometry problem spaces are prime examples of the domain the applicability of GPS. of predicate logic theorems. It was based on Simon and Newell's theoretical work on logic machines. GPS was the first computer program which separated its knowledge of problems (rules represented as input data) from its strategy of how to solve problems (a generic solver engine). GPS was implemented in the third-order programming language, IPL.