This book presents recent advancements of research, new methods and techniques, applications and projects in decision making and decision support systems. It explores expert systems and neural networks, knowledge engineering and management, fuzzy sets and systems and computational methods for...

The combined use of Database Management Systems (DBMS)and Artificial Intelligence-based Expert Systems (ES) ispotentially very valuable for modern business applications.The large body of facts usually required in business informationsystems can be made available to an ES through anexisting...

Knowledge bases constitute the core of those Artificial Intelligenceprograms which have come to be known as Expert Systems. Anexamination of the most dominant knowledge representation schemes usedin these systems reveals that a knowledge base can, and possiblyshould, be described at several...

The formulation of complex planning models, such as linearprogramming (LP) systems, is a difficult task that enjoys little supportby current decision support systems tools. It is hypothesized thatcurrent artificial intelligence technology is insufficient to buildgeneralized formulation tools...

Over the last decade there have been several efforts at building knowledge based quot;expertsystemsAtilde;cent;Acirc;not;Acirc;?, mostly in the scientific and medical arenas. Despite the fact that almost all suchsystems are in their experimental stages, designers are optimistic about their eventual...