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title: "A Multi-Attribute Approach to Knowledge Representation for Loan Granting"
authors:
  - "Suzanne Pinson"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/116"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0116.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "588-590"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
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# A Multi-Attribute Approach to Knowledge Representation for Loan Granting

Suzanne Pinson

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 588-590.

## Abstract

The complexity of financial declalon-maklng problema Ia auch that automation of the reaaonlng procesa by conventional approachea Ia often Incomplete or Inadequate. Thill paper deacrlbea CREDEX. a knowledge-baaed system which Ia being developed to aaslat bank-loan offlcera In interpreting and evaluating the activitlea of firma applying for a loan. CREDEX ia written In SNARK. It lntegratea ahallow and deep knowledge through a multi-level atructure driven by a meta-expert. The ayatem bullda on psychological reaearch on information processing and handles risk assessment through a combination of four multi-attribute models.