Description: Panel discusses data mining as the analysis of large databases to identify possible relationships, trends, and other useful information. Much of the session is devoted to Online Analytical Processing [OLAP] and derivative products. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting is about the rapid expansion of the internet, how to set up a web page, how insurance companies and actuaries are using the internet for marketing, and how the public makes use of the internet.

Description: Panelists present a basic overview of the internet and its potential uses. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Given that actuaries use models for statutory projections, GAAP projections, budgeting, corporate planning, and product pricing, often different models are used for each one of these activities leading to the possibility of assumption and model mismatch for several similar projections. The panelists discuss considerations in determining whether to integrate current models, and to maximize the potential of current models for multiple purposes. They also provide suggestions on how to integrate.