BookReviews

As a system scientist doing modeling and simulation, I have been interested for some time in ways that modeling and simulation and AI could be of value to each other. After all, both areas have their roots in putting knowledge into useful representations. I have speculated (AI Magazine, summer 1989, pp. With respect to breadth of coverage and potential readership, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, and Modeling does provide a broad survey of current research, but it is written from an AI perspective and will find a greater readership among AI researchers than simulationists. Mark E. Lacy is manager of computational The cover to Expert Systems in Business: A Practical Approach by Michael L. Barrett and Annabel C. Beerel (Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester, England, 1988, 259 pages, $36.95, ISBN O-7458-0269-9) contains an abstract design in colors of violet, brilliant green, and dark magenta.