Expert Systems for Scanner Data Environments: The Marketing Workbench Laboratory Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792390763)

This book is about the role of expert systems in marketing, particularly in the consumer goods industry. Section I describes the changing nature of consumer marketing and presents the rationale and need for expert systems. The remainder of the book combines a tutorial on expert systems with a series of expert system prototypes. The tutorial material is presented in three places. First, section II is devoted to introducing expert systems in general. Chapter 3 provides a general introduction to the topic, which is continued in chapter 4 where a small expert system (the Promotion Advisor) is used to illustrate the important features of a backward-chaining, rule-based system. The promotion theme is extended in chapter 5 where a larger system is presented. The material in all three of these chapters was designed as an introduction and tutorial on the most common technology for building applied expert systems: the backward-chaining, rule-based inference engine. Tutorial material is also contained in the body of the chapters that describe the prototypes. This material is usually in the form of sample rules and a description of the process for applying the rules. The third location of the expert system material is in chapters that follow discussions of the prototypes. Chapter 7 is a technical chapter on the coupling of expert systems to traditional systems.

Author: John M. McCann,John P. Gallagher
ISBN-10: 0792390768
ISBN-13: 9780792390763
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/30/1990
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.62w x 0.78d