A Knowledge-Based System for Advertising Design

Raymond R. Burke, Arvind Rangaswamy, Jerry Wind and Jehoshua Eliashberg
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Raymond R. Burke: University of Pennsylvania
Arvind Rangaswamy: University of Pennsylvania
Jerry Wind: University of Pennsylvania
Jehoshua Eliashberg: University of Pennsylvania

Marketing Science, 1990, vol. 9, issue 3, 212-229

Abstract: In recent years, artificial intelligence research has provided new tools and techniques for marketing model builders. These tools, when combined with problem-solving knowledge from a specific domain, can be used to create expert systems. This methodology is most applicable in semistructured problem domains where the key relationships are logical rather than numerical and problem-solving knowledge is incomplete. One such problem in marketing is advertising design. In this paper, we describe the application of expert system techniques to the development of ADCAD, a system designed to assist advertisers of consumer products with the formulation of advertising objectives, copy strategy, and the selection of communication approaches. The paper highlights the assembly of ADCAD's knowledge base of ad design heuristics from multiple sources of published research and practitioner expertise and describes its structure and content. We discuss the procedures and obstacles associated with building, implementing, and validating such an expert system. Our experiences with ADCAD suggest that knowledge-based systems have significant potential for the consolidation and integration of marketing knowledge as interactive input for decision makers. We conclude by noting several avenues for the future development of advertising expert systems.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; expert systems; advertising; creativity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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