User modeling for flexible inference control and its relevance to decision-making in economics and management

Abstract

Abstract. Controlling the order of inference is an important issue for knowledge-based systems in economics and management. Separate from this issue, there is a recent spur on user modeling. In this paper, we establish the connection between these two issues. We investigate the need for flexible control of inference from the perspective of user modelling, and outline the approaches to realize this kind of connection.