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Artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies are being used in a variety of ways to improve the decision support provided to managers and business professionals in many companies. Al-enabled applications are at work in information distribution and retrieval, database mining, product design, manufacturing, inspection, training, user support, surgical planning, resource scheduling, and resource management. Indeed, for anyone who schedules, plans, allocates resources, designs new products, uses the Internet, develops software as well as for anyone responsible for product quality, an investment professional, heads IT team or uses of IT, or operates in any of a score of other capacities and arenas, Al technologies already may be in place and providing competitive advantage.