The integration of an ES into a business environment presents adifferent set of problems to the designer. First, it can bedifficult to isolate and draw boundaries around the domain of thebusiness problem. Second, there is often a need to generate a largenumber of expert decisions in a short...

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...