Exam 10: Decision Support and Expert Systems

____________are sequences of steps,formulas,models,and other tools that systematically reduce the alternatives to a manageable number.

Clicking different areas of a map can zoom in and out as well as bring up related information in the form of other maps or text,utilizing the____________ capabilities of the web to the fullest.

Among the general statistical models,a(n) ____________model is the best-fit straight-line relationship between two variables,such as sales and the money spent on marketing.

Stock investment is an example of a semi-structured decision making domain.

Give examples of structured and semi-structured problems.

____________is an expert system that includes instrumentation that connects to the patient's body and feeds various data about the patient's condition into the ES to be analyzed for pulmonary diseases.

Sensitivity analysis is often referred to as____________ .

How do DSSs help in website planning and adjustment?

Neural nets have been very effective in detecting fraud of many types.

Whenever more than one possible action is available,a(n)____________ must be made.

Geographic information systems (GISs) are often the best decision aids for map-related decisions.

A(n) ____________system is used at all levels of an organization,and often by non-managerial staff.

____________is one of the primary languages used to compose and retrieve web pages and support the presentation of pictures with marked areas.

Companies prefer their decision support systems (DSSs) to access the data warehouse rather than the transactional database.

When organizations use a customer relationship management (CRM) system,the ____________of such systems provide data for the DSS.