As banks, financial services, insurances, and economic research units worldwide strive to add knowledge based capabilities to their analyses and services, or to create new ones, this volume aims to provide them with concrete tools, methods and application possibilities. The tutorial component of the book relies on case study illustrations, and on source code in some of the major artificial intelligence languages. The applications related component includes an extensive survey of real projects, and a number of thorough generic methods and tools for auditing, technical analysis, information screens and natural-language front-ends. The research related component highlights novel methods and software for economic reasoning under uncertainty and for fusion of qualitative/quantitative model-based economic reasoning. From the Contents: A Reader's Guide: Introduction: The Strategic Challenge to Banks, Financial Services and Economics Basic Concepts Applications of Artificial Inntelligence in Banking, Financial Services and Economics Knowledge Representation Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages Search and Causal Analysis Neural Processing and Inductive Learning Technical Analysis for Securities Trading Intelligent Information Screens Natural Language Front-Ends to Economic Models Trade Selection with Uncertain Reasoning on Technical Indicators Currency Risk Management Reasoning Procedures in Knowledge-Based Systems for Economics and Management Appendix 1: Software Codes: Prolog Code for the Tax Adviser An Algorithm for Causal and Consistency Analysis Prolog NL Parser for Economic Statements Appendix 2: Predefined LISP and Prolog Expressions. Front Matter....Pages I-XV A reader’s guide....Pages 1-3 Introduction....Pages 5-8 Basic concepts....Pages 9-21 Applications of Artificial Intelligence in banking, financial services and economics....Pages 22-46 Knowledge Representation....Pages 47-122 Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages....Pages 123-184 Search and causal analysis....Pages 185-228 Neural processing and inductive learning....Pages 229-244 Technical analysis for securities trading....Pages 245-256 Intelligent information screens....Pages 257-263 Natural language front-ends to economic models....Pages 264-269 Trade selection with uncertain reasoning on technical indicators....Pages 270-278 Currency risk management....Pages 279-284 Reasoning procedures in knowledge-based systems for economics and management....Pages 285-302 Back Matter....Pages 303-364
