The Design of an Expert System for Contract Price Analysis.

Abstract

This report discusses the feasibility of designing an expert system for contract price analysis. It recommends an intelligent manual for base-level procurement be implemented. Also presented is a prototype design in the ZOG information management system. The system architecture and the organization of pricing knowledge in the system was determined by field investigations. The pricing task is a relatively small component of the total procurement task. This coupled with the distributed nature of the information needed for price analysis render the implementation of a more complex, self-contained expert system infeasible at the present time. Also discussed are implications for future research and the limitations of the proposed design. Several alternative designs are evaluated. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1983
Accession Number
ADA140927

Entities

People

  • Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran
  • J. Dillard
  • K. Ramakrishna

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Computer Science
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Databases
  • Expert Systems
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Procurement
  • User Interface
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.