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Final Exam | BUS 321 - Intro Mgt Informat Systems, Quizzes of Management Information Systems

Ch. 9 Class: BUS 321 - Intro Mgt Informat Systems; Subject: Business; University: Indiana State University; Term: Fall 2009;

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TERM 1
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
DEFINITION 1
A subfield of computer science concerned with studying the
thought processes of humans and representing the effects of
those processes via machine.
TERM 2
Business Intelligence
DEFINITION 2
Applications and technologies for consolidating, analyzing,
and providing access to vast amounts of data to help users
make better business and strategic decisions
TERM 3
Data Mining
DEFINITION 3
The process of searching for valuable business information in
a large database, data warehouse, or data mart
TERM 4
Decision Room
DEFINITION 4
A face-to-face setting for a group DSS, in which terminals are
available to the participants.
TERM 5
Decision Support System (DSS)
DEFINITION 5
Business intelligence systems that evolved from decisions
support systems; they comvine models and data in an
attempt to solve semi-combine models and data in an
attempt to solve semi-structured and some unstructured
problems with extensive user involvment
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

A subfield of computer science concerned with studying the thought processes of humans and representing the effects of those processes via machine. TERM 2

Business Intelligence

DEFINITION 2 Applications and technologies for consolidating, analyzing, and providing access to vast amounts of data to help users make better business and strategic decisions TERM 3

Data Mining

DEFINITION 3 The process of searching for valuable business information in a large database, data warehouse, or data mart TERM 4

Decision Room

DEFINITION 4 A face-to-face setting for a group DSS, in which terminals are available to the participants. TERM 5

Decision Support System (DSS)

DEFINITION 5 Business intelligence systems that evolved from decisions support systems; they comvine models and data in an attempt to solve semi-combine models and data in an attempt to solve semi-structured and some unstructured problems with extensive user involvment

Digital Dashboard

A business intelligence system that provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to management reports TERM 7

Expert System (ES)

DEFINITION 7 A computer system that attempts to mimic human experts by applying reasoning methodologies or knowledge in a specific domain TERM 8

Geographic Information System

DEFINITION 8 A computer-based system for capturing, integrating, manipulating, and displaying data using digitized maps. TERM 9

Goal-Seeking Analysis

DEFINITION 9 Study that attemps to find the value of the inputs necessary to achieve a desired level of output TERM 10

Group Decision Support System

(GDSS)

DEFINITION 10 An interactive computer-based system that supports the process of finding solutions by a group of decision makers

Natural Language Understanding (Speech/

Voice Recognition)

The ability of comuter to comprehend instructions given in ordinary language, via the keyboard or by voice. TERM 17

Neural Network

DEFINITION 17 A system of programs and data structures that approximates the operation of the human brain TERM 18

Organizational Decision Support System

(ODSS)

DEFINITION 18 A DSSBI system that focuses on an organizational task or activity involving a sequence of operations an decision makers. TERM 19

Productivity

DEFINITION 19 The ratio between teh inputs to a process and the outputs from that process TERM 20

Sensitivity Analysis

DEFINITION 20 The study of the impact that changes in one parts of a model have on other parts.

Turing Test

A test for artificial intelligence in which a human interviewer, conversing with both an unseen human being and an unseen computer, cannot determine which is which; named fro English mathematician Alan Turing TERM 22

Virtual Reality

DEFINITION 22 Interactive, computer-generated, three-dimensional graphics delivered to the user through a head-mounted display. TERM 23

What-if Analysis

DEFINITION 23 The study of the impact of a change in the assumptions on the proposed solution.