Details Title: BA 342 lecture final Description: Chapter 9 Total Flash Cards: 23 Created: 11/18/2008 08:46:07		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Business Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Artificial intelligence (AI) Definition A subfield of computer science concerned with studying the thought processes of humans and representing the effects of those processes via machines Term Business Intelligence Definition Applications and technologies for consolidating, analyzing, and providing access to vast amounts of data to help users make better business and strategic decisions Term Data mining Definition The process of searching for valuable business information i na large database, data warehouse, or data mart Term Decision room Definition A face-to-face setting for a group DSS, in which terminals are available to the participants Term Decision Support System (DSS) Definition Business intelligence systems that evolved from devision support systems; they combine models and data in an attempy to solve semi-structured and some unstructured problems with extensive user involvement Term Digital Dashboard Definition A business intelligence system that provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to management reports Term Expert System (ES) Definition A computer system that attempts to mimic human experts by applying reasoning methodologies or knowledge in a specific domain Term Geographic information system Definition A computer-based system for capturing, integrating, manipulatin, and displaying data using digitized maps Term Goal-seeking analysis Definition Study that attempts to find the value of the inputs necessary to achieve a desired level of output Term Group decidion support system (GDSS) Definition An interactive computer-based system that supports the process of finding solutions by a group of decision makers Term Intelligent systems Definition A term that describes the various commercial applications of artificial intelligence Term Management Definition A process by which organizational goals are achieved through the use of resources Term Model (in decision making) Definition A simplified representaion, or abstraction, or reality Term Natural language generation (also voice synthesis) Definition Technology that enables computers to produce ordinary language, by "voice" or on the screen, so that people can understand computers more easily Term Natural language processing (NLP) Definition Communicating with a computer in the user's native language Term Natural language understanding Definition The ability of a computer to comprehend instructions given in ordinary language, via the keyboard of by voice Term Neural network Definition A system of programs and dat astructures that approzimates the operation of the human brain Term Organizational decision support system (ODSS) Definition A DSS-BI system that focuses on an organization task or activity involving a sequence of operations and decision makers Term Productivity Definition The ratio between the inputs to a process and the outputs from that process Term Sensitivity analysis Definition The study of the impact that changes in one (or more) parts of a model have on other parts Term Turing test Definition A test for AI in which a human interview, conversing with both an unseen human being and an unseen computer, cannot determine which is which; named for English mathematician Alan Turing Term Virural reality Definition Interactive, computer-generated, three-dimensional graphics delivered to the user through a head-mounted display Term What-if analysis Definition The study of the impact of a change in the assumptions (input data) on the proposed solution