Adaptive Business Intelligence: Three Case Studies

This chapter contains a general discussion on the prediction and optimization issues present in dynamic environments, and explains the ideas behind Adaptive Business Intelligence. The chapter also presents three diverse case studies. The first deals with pollution control, the second one with ship navigation, and the third one with car distribution. All these problems are set in dynamic environments; all three problems require some level of prediction (prediction of weather for pollution optimization, prediction of paths for unidentified ships at sea, and prediction of prices for cars sold at different auction sites). All these problems also require optimization for recommending the best course of action.