Adaptive Business Intelligence
Adaptive Business Intelligence
Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Schmidt Matthew Michalewicz and Constantin ChiriacSpringer2006i-x, 220 pp.ISBN 3-540-32928-5Hardcover, $49.95
The authors believe that adaptive business intelligence systems assist decision-makers in the complex and rapidly changing environments of today. The publishers say that the authors are well-qualified to write on this topic since they have “considerable academic research backgrounds in artificial intelligence and related fields.” What is of most important to the business and industry practitioner is that the book is also the result of years of practical experience gained by the writers.
They set out to explain and discuss both the science and the application of a great number of the prediction and optimization techniques that are used in the development of adaptive systems. Covered in this book are:
... linear regression; time-series; forecasting; decision trees and tables;artificial neural networks; genetic programming; fuzzy systems; genetic algorithms; simulated annealing; tabu search; ant systems; agent-based modelling.
The benefits of using adaptive business intelligence systems is soon made apparent to the reader who will appreciate that they mix together the two well-known techniques of prediction and optimization and undoubtedly help the user make the decisions now required in the complex modern-day situations we experience.
