Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory

Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory

Economic theory is no more than an arena for the investigation of concepts we use in thinking about economics in real life. What makes a theoretical model ‘economics’ is that the concepts we are analyzing are taken from real-life reasoning about economic issues.

A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

A Pragmatic Legal Expert System

This book aims to show that a legal expert system need not be based upon a complex model of legal reasoning in order to produce useful advice. It advocates a pragmatic approach to the design of legal expert systems—an approach based on the way in which lawyers deal with the law on a day-to-day basis.

The Quest For Artificial Intelligence

The Quest For Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) may lack an agreed-upon definition, but someone writing about its history must have some kind of definition in mind. Artificial intelligence is an activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment.