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Intelligent decision support for small business using expert systems and neural networks

Previous research in intelligent decision support was mostly focused on large companies since it was very demanding regarding data, computer and human resources. This paper discusses the architecture of an intelligent system for small business taking into account specific characteristics of small enterprises that put some additional requests into such systems. Additionally, two intelligent systems for supporting decisions that entrepreneurs frequently deal with are developed and their results are described. An expert system for location decision support is created and a backpropagation neural network for sale prediction is modelled using a croatian small enterprise data. The results show that entrepreneurs can benefit from such systems and that the more detailed research is needed.

expert systems; intelligent decision support; location decision; neural networks; sale prediction; small business

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