Inductive expert system design: Maximizing system value

Information Systems Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 111-140

  Mookerjee, Vijay S ^a   Dos Santos, Brian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic expert system design; Economics of machine learning; Inductive expert systems; Information costs and benefits

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COSTS AND BENEFITS; ID3 ALGORITHM; INDUCTION ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION COSTS; OPTIMAL SEQUENTIAL; SPECIAL CLASS;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0003136714     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.4.2.111     Document Type: Article

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