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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.
