While some areas of information technology are gradually slackening into the position of competitive necessity, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is emerging as a competitive weapon. The three areas of AI that have immediate economic values are robotics, natural language processing, and expert
Supply management: the next competitive advantage for utilities
β Scribed by Stephen Budd; Frank Heard
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 713 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-6190
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