Exam 10: Decision Support and Expert Systems

As medicine is one of the most unstructured domains,it is not surprising that many of the early ____________were developed to help doctors with the diagnosis of symptoms and treatment advice.

Many banks use automated ____________to determine a client's creditworthiness.

In the field of engineering,DSS models might simulate the ____________environment.

Design support systems (DSSs) sort out a good risk as a person or institution that is likely to default on a loan.

A____________ is a specific area of knowledge.

An increasing amount of ____________in the financial services and many other industries are made in real time using DSSs.

Determining which stock will yield the highest return by the end of the year is an example of a(n) ____________problem.

____________are excellent tools for building both the data and the models that decision support systems need.

A(n) ____________is a computer-based information system designed to help knowledge workers select one of many alternative solutions to a problem.

The part of the DSS that allows the user to interact with it is called the____________ .

Medical ____________help diagnose patients and suggest treatments.

In most expert systems,the knowledge base is built as a series of ____________rules.

A(n) ____________is developed to emulate the knowledge of an expert to solve problems and make decisions in a relatively narrow domain.

Businesses use____________ to analyze data.

The ____________prompts the user to select a model,allowing the user to access the database and select data for the decision process or to set criteria for selecting such data.

A DSS's____________ is a database or data warehouse that provides the data for the intelligence phase of decision making.

Business decisions are not affected by geographic locations.

In the ____________phase of decision making,decision makers collect facts,ideas,and beliefs.

The American Stock Exchange (AMEX) has a special department to prevent____________ of the securities under its supervision.

A(n) ____________problem is one in which an optimal solution can be reached through a single set of steps.