Wolfgang Wahlster

Dacos Software GmbH is a software solution that reliably simulates analyses and predicts the customer´s purchasing behavior. Therefore it uses latest scientific methods from the field of Artificial Intelligence and econometric models. Thus the Retail Simulation Engine achieves significantly more precise results than conventional analyzing software. Dacos´ analyzing system is beneficial not only for the retail industry, but can be applied to many industries that dispose of vast data material in order to analyze, forecast and simulate the behavior of market actors. Dacos Software GmbH was founded in 1977 and has attained great reputation with international trade players as a developing company for merchandise management systems since the 1980s. Having been taken over by SAP in 1994, the company was renamed SAP Retail Solutions in 1997. The new Dacos Software GmbH was established in 2001 in Saarbrücken, initially within the framework of a research project, and later as a spinoff of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. The company counts among its founders Professor Dr. Joachim Hertel, Professor Dr. Joachim Zentes and Professor Dr. Jörg Siekmann, all professors at the University of Saarland.

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