From: Stefan Kirn
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: ISAI activities
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:52:14 GMT
Organization: Uni Muenster

-------------   Please Distribute This File Further   -------------




            FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT of the ISAI WORKING GROUP
            ============================================

                          AI in FINANCE
                          =============

Today, we see a rapidly growing interest on the application of AI to 
all types of financial applications. A lot of banks, insurance 
companies, brokers, etc. all around the world have already begun not 
only to develop but to use AI systems in their daily business. This 
requires both software developers and academicians to learn about 
and to take into account the particular characteristics of 
applications in the field. This includes issues like

-  developing (generic) task level models of the different types of 
   financial applications
-  development of application-specific shells / tools
-  "benchmarking" of AI-based solutions 
-  comparing AI-based systems against conventional solutions
-  integration of AI-systems
-  etc. etc. etc. 

Any experience in one or several of the following areas would be of 
particular interest: 

-  all types of banking applications, e.g.
      *  stock / bond markets
      *  private banking
      *  capital investment
      *  backoffice applications

-  AI in assurance companies, e.g.

-  financial engineering

-  mergers & acquisitions

-  consulting

-  leasing

-  prediction of economic growth

-  etc.


Obviously, this list is not exhaustive at all. On the other hand, 
all different approaches and paradigms of modern AI shall be 
considered. This includes, but is not limited to:

-  all issues of knowedge representation and reasoning 
-  model-based approaches
-  case based reasoning
-  neural networks
-  Distributed AI
-  diagnosis, configuration, planning, and so on
-  etc.


It is not the right place here to develop a complete work program. 
Instead, this would be one of the prior aims of the working group.
Thus, I invite all people being interested in / 
concerned with research, development, and use of AI in the different 
branches of finance to join this ISAI working group, and to take 
benefit from a worlwide discussion of the stimulating field of "AI 
in FINANCE". 


How to join the ISAI working group "AI in FINANCE"?
---------------------------------------------------

The only thing you have to do is

1.  to send an email to "kirns@uni-muenster.de". This email should 
    include your full address, an indication of your fields of 
    interest and of your particular experience, and a statement 
    concerning your ISAI membership.

2.  If you are not yet a member of ISAI, you must join the society 
    as well. In that case, please contact Graham Forsyth

           FORSYTH@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au

    for a membership application. He will be pleased to send you any 
    further information about the International Society of Applied
    Intelligence (ISAI).


Dr. Stefan Kirn
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik
Grevener Str. 91
D-4400 Muenster
---------------

Germany

phone:   +49 251 92 75 59
fax:     +49 251 83 97 54
email:   kirns@uni-muenster.de
Newsgroups: comp.ai