Insurance Applications of Soft Computing Technologies

  • Arnold F. Shapiro
Conference paper
Part of the Advances in Soft Computing book series (AINSC, volume 14)

Abstract

The purposes of the article are twofold: first, to review soft computing (SC) applications in insurance so as to document the unique characteristics of insurance as an application area; and second, to document the extent to which hybrid SC technologies have been employed. While it is clear that SC has made inroads into many facets of the business, in most instances the applications did not capitalized on the synergies between the SC technologies and, as a consequence, there are opportunities to extend the studies.

Keywords

soft computing insurance applications neural networks fuzzy logic genetic algorithms 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Arnold F. Shapiro
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  1. 1.Smeal College of BusinessPenn State UniversityUniversity ParkUSA

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