Diploma Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1.3, European Business School - International University Schlo Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to analyse, assess and evaluate the potential of commercial applica-tions of artificial intelligence in electronic businesses. Therefore the main research question of this paper is whether artificial intelligence is reasonably applicable in Internet-related busi-nesses, first in terms of effectiveness and second in terms of efficiency. In the...