Preface
1 Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business: Getting Acquiainted
Walter Reitman
EXPERT SYSTEMS
2 Briilding Expert Systems
John McDermott
3 Knowledge-Based Expert Systems: The Buy or Build Decision
Harry E. Pople, Jr.
4 Expert Systems: Matching Techniquies to Tasks
B. Chandrasekaran
5 Coupling Expert Systems with Database Management Systems
Matthias Jarke and Yannis Vassiliou
6 Databases, Expert Systems, and PROLOG
Adrian Walker
7 Al and Decisin Making: The PROSPECTOR Experience 
Richard O. Duda and Rene Reboh
8 Using Expert Systems to Manage Change and Complexity in Manufacturing
Dennis E. O'Connor
9 The industrialization of Knowledge Engineering
Frederick Hayes-Roth

NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIONS
10 Natural Language Interfaces: What's Here, What's Coming, and Who Needs it 
Madeleine Bates and Robert J. Bobrow
11 Natural Language Communication With Machines: An Ongoing Goal 
William A. Woods
12 In Response: Next Steps in Natural Language Interaction
Bonnie Lynn Webber and Tim Finin
13 Natural Language Processing in the Commercial World 
Steven P. Shwartz
14 Advisory Systems

Roger C. Schank and Stephen Slade
AI MARKETS AND FURTHER APPLICATIONS
15 Market Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Howard Austin
16 The Artificial Intelligence Tool Box
Beau Sheil
17 Integrating Vision and Touch for Robotics Applications
Ruzena Bajcsy
18 Managing the Acquisition of an AI Capability: Some Observations, Suggestions, and Conclusions
Walter Reitman
Author Index 
Subiect Index