IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/isacfm/v7y1998i1p1-19.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Experiences with EXGAME: an expert system for playing a competitive business game

Author

Listed:
  • Y. Duan
  • J.S. Edwards
  • P.C. Robins

Abstract

This paper looks at expert systems in management, by using a business game as an experimental vehicle. An expert system called EXGAME was developed to play a business game, which is normally played by students, with minimal human intervention. This paper concentrates on the effectiveness of EXGAME as compared with human players for tasks at different levels. EXGAME was able to replace human players in decision making at the operational level, and indeed outperform them. However, it proved to be impractical to replace human input at the strategic level. The paper also sheds some light on the problems of trying to build an expert system when there is no real expert. A combination of a modular knowledge‐base structure and a process of ‘learning by experimentation’ was effective in this case; it is suggested that this may be an appropriate development strategy in other similar situations. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Suggested Citation

  • Y. Duan & J.S. Edwards & P.C. Robins, 1998. "Experiences with EXGAME: an expert system for playing a competitive business game," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 7(1), pages 1-19, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:isacfm:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:1-19
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1174(199803)7:13.0.CO;2-W
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1174(199803)7:13.0.CO;2-W
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1174(199803)7:13.0.CO;2-W?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Daniel E. O'Leary, 2010. "Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management: ISI journal and proceeding citations, and research issues from most‐cited papers," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(1), pages 41-58, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:isacfm:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:1-19. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1099-1174/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.