MESS is an expert system to support a decision at the American StockExchange to open an investigation of insider trading. The system was developedwith three experts and extensive prototyping. MESS illustrates multiple roles for anexpert system; it contributes to decision making by seeing that...

This paper reports on an effort to integrate symbolic and mathematical models to tailor the optimal output of an operations research model to the particular domain of a decision maker. AESOP combines the Black-Scholes model of stock options pricing with an expert system; the integrated model is...