Problems in Finance, particularly those involving risk assessmentand management, have been slow to yield toexpert systems technology for two reasons. First, expertreasoning in such problems is often based on acirc; first principlesquot;instead of acirc; situation-actionquot; rules that...

Modeling expert knowledge using quot;situation-actionquot; rules is not always feasible in knowledgeintensive domains involving volatile knowledge (e.g., trading). The explosive searchspace involved in such domains and its dynamic nature make it extremely difficult to setupa rule base and keep...

In design, inferring structure from function is a combinatorial generate-and-test problem.Existing methods use prestored domain-specific partial configurations to constrainthe generator. We have found that for certain types of economic and physicalsystems consisting of two-terminal components...