Exam 10: Supporting Decision Making

__________ analysis involves making repeated changes to selected variables until a chosen variable reaches a target value.

Within an expert system, the _______________ contains facts about a specific subject area and rules that express the reasoning procedures of an expert on the subject.

Even information that is outdated, inaccurate, or hard to understand has meaning, usefulness, and value.

If customers who purchase item A are already likely to purchase item B, then they'll be even more likely to buy item B if it is in a display just outside the aisle that holds item A.

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

According to the textbook case, Warner Home Video is using _______________ to forecast the number of video disks going to retail stores.

The first goal of executive information systems was to provide top executives with immediate and easy access to information about a firm's critical success factors (CSFs), that is, key factors that are critical to accomplishing an organization's _______________ objectives.

Unlike management information systems, decision support systems rely on __________ bases, as well as databases as vital system resources.

In _______________ analysis, a user makes changes to variables, or relationships among variables, and observes the resulting changes in the values of other variables.

Many companies are using webcasting to selectively broadcast reports and other information to the networked PCs of managers and specialists over corporate internets. This is an example of _______________ reporting.

The use of intelligent agents is growing rapidly as a way to do all of the following except:

DSS systems are designed to be ad hoc, quick-response systems that are initiated and controlled by business decision makers.

Which of the following represents knowledge in the form of a hierarchy or network of collections consisting of a complex package of data values describing its attributes?

_______________ decisions involve situations where it is not possible to specify in advance most of the decision procedures to follow.

The information products from an MIS take all the following forms except:

Enterprise information portals can help avoid excessive surfing by employees across company and Internet websites by making it easier for them to receive or find the information and services they need.

_______________ represents knowledge in the form of a network of data elements including both the data and the methods/processes that act on those data.

All of the following would be considered an AI application in the natural interface group except:

The easiest way to develop an expert system is to use an expert _______________ as a developmental tool

Which of the following is one of the most common and useful types of data mining for marketing?