Exam 10: Supporting Decision Making

Portals are designed for use by executives, not the average employee.

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

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

An intelligent agent is:

According to the text, all of the following are major limitations of an expert system except:

Which of the following represents knowledge in the form of statements of fact, typically in the form of premise and conclusion?

Online _______________ processing enables managers and analysts to interactively examine and manipulate large amounts of detailed and consolidated data from many perspectives.

Typically, __________ analysis is used when decision makers are uncertain about the assumptions made in estimating the value of certain key variables.

All of the following would be controlled by the process monitoring/control category of expert systems except:

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 _______________.

Knowledge engineers perform a role similar to that of systems analysts in conventional information systems development.

By targeting customers who are already known to be likely buyers, the effectiveness of a given marketing effort is significantly increased-if the marketing takes the form of _______________.

Expert systems fail miserably in solving problems requiring a broad knowledge base.

Genetic algorithms were first used to simulate millions of years in _______________ evolution in just a few minutes on a computer.

Decision makers at the operational management level often look to decision support systems to provide them with summarized, ad hoc, and unscheduled reports, forecasts, and external intelligence to support their more unstructured planning and policymaking responsibilities.

_______________ represents knowledge in the form of past performance, occurrences, and experiences.

Neural networks are computing systems modeled after the brain's meshlike network of interconnected processing elements, called _______________.

Dell, Wal-Mart, and Amazon are a few of the companies using _______________ DSS models to stimulate and optimize supply chain flow and reduce inventory levels.

AI applications can be grouped under all of the following areas except: