Expert Systems: Applications of Business Intelligence in Big Data Environments

Dear Colleagues,

In order to reduce the risk of human mistakes in financial domains, expert systems have gained a great advantage in big data environments. In addition to their efficiency in quantitative analyses, such as profitability, banking management, and strategic financial planning, expert systems have successfully treated qualitative issues, including financial analysis, investments advisories, and knowledge-based decision support systems. Due to the increase in financial application sizes, complexity and the number of components, it is no longer practical to anticipate and model all possible interactions and data processing in these applications using the traditional data processing model. The emerging of new engineering research areas is a clear evidence of the emergence of new demands and requirements of modern real-life applications to be more intelligent. Recently, expert systems with explanation for decision making can achieve a high accuracy rate to support financial institutions in a highly volatile climate. It is being promoted by the software engineering community to use such systems as the adequate solution to handle the current requirements of complex big data processing problems that demanding distribution, flexibility, and robustness.

The overall aim of this Special Issue is to collect state-of-the-art research findings on the latest development, up-to-date issues, and challenges in the field of expert systems for business intelligence and big data analytics in financial applications. Proposed submissions should be original, unpublished, and have novel in-depth research that makes significant methodological or application contributions. 

Dr. Mohamed Elhoseny
Dr. Xiaohui Yuan

Dr. Noura Metawa
Guest Editors

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