Exam 4: Decision Support and Artificial Intelligence

A buyer agent is also called a user agent.

Mutation refers to giving preference to newer outcomes.

The intelligence phase of decision making finds or recognizes a problem, need, or opportunity.

Agent-based modeling involves multiple intelligent agents that can adapt to changing conditions.

What is the term used when businesses employ GIS software to generate maps showing information of interest to them?

_____ focuses on storing information within a decision support system.

A genetic algorithm follows a trial and error approach.

_____ is the science of making machines imitate human thinking and behavior.

Which type of system can learn by example and adapt to new concepts and knowledge?

Which DSS component stores and maintains the information you want your DSS to use?

What type of predictive agent continually observes changes in information and events and reports its findings back to the user?

Which type of system can learn and adjust to new circumstances by themselves?

In what decision making phase do you recognize a problem, need, or opportunity?

A genetic algorithm is a neural network that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem.

Spatial information is any information that can be shown in its original form.

The know-how of an expert system actually comes from a(n) _____.

If you needed to analyze a problem, for instance, the type of career path you wished to follow, and there were hundreds if not thousands of different possibilities (e.g., geographical area, industry, salary), what type of system could you employ to find the best career for you?

Most decisions fall somewhere between structured and nonstructured.

Multi-agent systems are dependent intelligent agents that interact with each other.

A(n) _____ system, also known as a knowledge-based system, is an excellent tool for diagnosing problems and providing answers to these problems.