Exam 10: Decision Support Systems

A major freight company has several thousand drivers. A report containing information about only those company drivers who have not taken a mandatory defensive driving course is an example of a(n) _______________ report.

Information has three dimensions: time, content, and _______________.

A communications network expert system is an example of an expert system in the application category of:

Adaptive learning systems can only modify their behaviors based on the information with which they are programmed.

Internal enterprise information portal applications typically include access to all of the following except:

Hundreds of rules may be required to capture the assumptions, __________, and reasoning that are involved in even simple problem situations.

Which of the following artificial intelligence applications can learn by processing sample problems and their solutions?

Decisions made at the tactical management level tend to be more:

The main purpose of data mining is to provide decision support to managers and business professionals through a process referred to as information mining.

Expert systems can provide decision support to end users in the form of advice from an _______________ in a specific problem area.

Expert systems learn from experience as they process information requests.

__________ analysis is a more complex form of goal-seeking where the goal is to find the best value for a target variable given certain constraints.

An intelligent agent is:

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the operational level of management?

All of the following would be considered an AI application in the cognitive science group except:

_______________ involves using multisensory human-computer interfaces that enable human users to experience computer-simulated objects, spaces, activities, and "worlds" as if they actually exist.

The Japanese ride on subway trains, use elevators, and drive cars that are guided or supported by fuzzy process controllers.

Which one of the following should be used to answer the question, "What would happen to sales if we cut advertising by 25 percent?"

Deciding what product lines to develop over the next five years is an example of a(n) _______________ decision.

The concept of a geographic information system and data visualization dates back to the 1800s.