First draft of the introduction

Rewrote the introduction as a usecase.

Pulled the introduction into a separate file.

This is a first draft but thought I'd get out a general idea of the introduction I had out as soon as possible.
My problem with it was mainly that is sounded like your were trying to address  two separate situations in here. Maybe something like this would work better: 'In this paper we will examine the current situation as well as existing approaches, and derive our own solution and its implementation from that.'