Title :
A decision support system for leasing/purchasing decisions
Author :
Neuhaus, Dirk ; Lusti, Markus
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Basel Univ., Switzerland
Abstract :
The leasing vs. purchasing decision involves legal, tax, accounting and financial issues. It is a multiple criteria decision problem, which takes into account quantitative and qualitative criteria. The expert knowledge is not available in most small and medium sized businesses. Companies depend on external experts like practising lawyers, finance specialists, tax and leasing advisers. An expert system such as Leasing Advisor, described in this paper, can provide the integration of knowledge from different problem areas to support the decision making process
Keywords :
decision support systems; expert systems; financial data processing; purchasing; Leasing Advisor; accounting issues; decision support system; expert knowledge; expert system; external experts; financial issues; knowledge integration; leasing/purchasing decisions; legal issues; medium sized businesses; multiple criteria decision problem; qualitative criteria; quantitative criteria; small businesses; tax issues; Asset management; Companies; Computer science; Contracts; Decision making; Decision support systems; Expert systems; Finance; Knowledge engineering; Manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Intelligence for Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonia, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5550-X
DOI :
10.1109/CAIA.1994.323626
