Economic and financial knowledge-based processing

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.