Book reivew: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT. Edited by L. P. Pau (North-Holland 1986)

This book is a collection of thirty-three of the papers written after the International Workshop on Al in Economics and Management, which was held March 12 - 14, 1985, in Zurich, Switzerland. The main sponsor was the International Federation of Automatic Control, with multiple co-sponsors (ACM, IEEE-CS, IFORS, IFIP, ECCAI, etc.). Being a collection of thirty-three papers spread out over 288 pages (plus xv), the papers are necessarily short: the shortest is four pages and the longest is eighteen pages, although the latter has one page of references and seven pages of figures. Seventeen of the papers are seven, eight, or nine pages in length; of the remaining sixteen, eight are shorter and eight are longer.