PREFACE       ix

PART I:

Decision Support Systems: A Meeting Place for OR and AI

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A COMMON GROUND FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE       3

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

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MODEL MANAGEMENT       22

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

PART II:

AI Approaches to Managing Knowledge

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REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE IN LISP       41

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

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OBJECT-ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION       58

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

5

REPRESENTING AND PROCESSING KNOWLEDGE VIA FORMAL LOGIC       71

      C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

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STATE SPACE KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING       92

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

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MANAGING REASONING KNOWLEDGE IN EXPERT SYSTEMS       107

        C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

PART III:

Facilitating the Use of Operations Research

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ADAPTING PREDICATE LOGIC TO SOLVER MANAGEMENT       123

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

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ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES       139

        C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

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HYPERKNOWLEDGE, AN ENVIRONMENT FOR MODEL MANAGEMENT       154

       C. W. Holsapple, V. S. Jacob, and A. B. Whinston

PART IV:

Machine Learning

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MACHINE LEARNING AND THE GENETIC ALGORITHM STRATEGY       167

        Ramakrishnan Pakath

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NEURAL NETWORKS: CONCEPTS, LEARNING, AND APPLICATIONS       185

       Ramakrishnan Pakath

NAME INDEX       199

SUBJECT INDEX       205