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Improving Production in Small and Medium
Enterprises
María L. Borrajo, Javier Bajo, and Juan F. De Paz
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Abstract. Knowledge management has gained relevance during the last years to
improve business functioning. However, there is still a growing need of
developing innovative tools that can help small to medium sized enterprises to
detect and predict undesired situations. This article present a multi-agent system
aimed at detecting risky situations. The multi-agent system incorporates models
for reasoning and makes predictions using case-based reasoning. The models are
used to detect risky situations and an providing decision support facilities. An
initial prototype was developed and the results obtained related to small and
medium enterprises in a real scenario are presented.
Keywords: Hybrid neural intelligent system, CBR, MAS, Business Intelligence,
business risk prediction.
1 Introduction
Knowledge Management is a fundamental asset for businesses in the
contemporary economy. Knowledge takes into account the organization of the
María L. Borrajo
Dept. Informática, University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, Ourense,
32004, Spain
e-mail: lborrajo@uvigo.es
Javier Bajo
Facultad de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, 37002,
Salamanca, Spain
e-mail: jbajope@upsa.es
Juan F. De Paz
Departamento Informática y Automática
Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
e-mail: fcofds@usal.es