Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing: Methods Technologies Systems Applications and Policy Making

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a subject garnering increasing attention in both academia and the industry today. The understanding is that AI-enhanced methods and techniques create a variety of opportunities related to improving basic and advanced business functions including production processes logistics financial management and others. As this collection demonstrates AI-enhanced tools and methods tend to offer more precise results in the fields of engineering financial accounting tourism air-pollution management and many more. The objective of this collection is to bring these topics together to offer the reader a useful primer on how AI-enhanced tools and applications can be of use in todays world. In the context of the frequently fearful skeptical and emotion-laden debates on AI and its value added this volume promotes a positive perspective on AI and its impact on society. AI is a part of a broader ecosystem of sophisticated tools techniques and technologies and therefore it is not immune to developments in that ecosystem. It is thus imperative that inter- and multidisciplinary research on AI and its ecosystem is encouraged. This collection contributes to that.