Title:
The artificial intelligence handbook : business applications
Publication Information:
Mason, Ohio : Thomson/South Western, 2003
ISBN:
9780538726979
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Summary
Summary
The purpose of this book is to help business professionals understand artificial intelligence software and how to make practical use of it. The authors provide a complete overview of expert systems and neural networks. Applications in a variety of discipline are included such as: banking, insurance, investments, accounting, law, marketing, and manufacturing.
Table of Contents
| About the Authors | p. xi |
| What This Book Will Do For You | p. xv |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | p. 1 |
| Conventional versus Artificial Intelligence Applications | p. 2 |
| Expert System Shells and Products | p. 2 |
| Business Applications of Artificial Intelligence | p. 3 |
| What is a Machine | p. 6 |
| Genetic Algorithms | p. 9 |
| Turing's Test | p. 10 |
| Eliza | p. 12 |
| Processing | p. 13 |
| Branches of AI | p. 14 |
| Programming for AI | p. 14 |
| Backward Chaining | p. 15 |
| Bots and Agents | p. 15 |
| Fuzzy Logic | p. 16 |
| The Java Expert System Shell | p. 17 |
| Instant Tea | p. 17 |
| Appendix 1-A Can Computers Think? | p. 20 |
| Appendix 1-B Questions for Turing Test | p. 22 |
| Chapter 2 Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems | p. 23 |
| Expert Systems in Detail | p. 24 |
| How Expert Systems Work | p. 25 |
| ES Tools | p. 26 |
| Applications of Expert Systems | p. 28 |
| Benefits and Disadvantages of Expert Systems | p. 36 |
| Other Applications | p. 37 |
| Intelligent Computer-Aided Instruction (ICAI) | p. 40 |
| Chapter 3 Neural Networks | p. 41 |
| Business Neural Network Applications | p. 42 |
| Insolvency Prediction | p. 43 |
| References | p. 47 |
| Chapter 4 Artificial Intelligence in Business Finance | p. 49 |
| Banking: Granting and Monitoring Credit | p. 50 |
| Insurance: Underwriting, Claims Processing, and Reserving | p. 51 |
| Portfolio Management | p. 53 |
| Advice on Trading | p. 56 |
| Global Financial Markets | p. 57 |
| Neural Networks in Business Finance | p. 60 |
| Chapter 5 Artificial Intelligence in Accounting | p. 93 |
| Expert System Applications | p. 93 |
| Neural Networks in Accounting | p. 107 |
| Chapter 6 Legal Applications | p. 135 |
| Finder | p. 136 |
| Shyster | p. 137 |
| Applied Sentencing System | p. 138 |
| Legal Information Retrieval System | p. 139 |
| The Nervous Shock Advisor | p. 139 |
| Negligence | p. 140 |
| Domestic Violence | p. 140 |
| The Inheritance Advisor | p. 140 |
| Appendix 6-A Sample Consultation Hypothetical for NSA | p. 142 |
| Chapter 7 Artificial Intelligence in Marketing | p. 149 |
| Using AI at the Design Stage | p. 151 |
| Selling | p. 153 |
| Marketing Services | p. 159 |
| Forecasting | p. 160 |
| Inventory Management | p. 164 |
| Trend Analysis | p. 165 |
| Communication | p. 165 |
| Making Decisions in Uncertainty | p. 166 |
| What's Next? | p. 167 |
| References | p. 168 |
| Chapter 8 Expert Systems and Neural Networks in Manufacturing | p. 171 |
| Example 1 Expert Systems Integration Drives Van Conversions | p. 172 |
| Example 2 General Electric's Expert System Mimics Human Repair Experts | p. 173 |
| Production and Operations | p. 174 |
| Business Process Reengineering | p. 176 |
| Robotics | p. 177 |
| Neural Networks in Manufacturing | p. 177 |
| Appendix I Artificial Intelligence Software | p. 181 |
| Glossary | p. 189 |
| Index | p. 223 |
