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MIS Exam 3
Ch. 10 Terms
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Management
Not Applicable
05/11/2005

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Knowledge Assets
Definition
Organizational knowledge regarding how to efficiently and effectively perform business processes and create new products and services that enables the business to create value.
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Tacit Knowledge
Definition
Expertise and experience of organizational members that has not been formally documented.
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Office Systems
Definition
Computer systems, such as word processing, voice mail, and imaging, that are designed to increase the productivity of information workers in the office.
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Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Definition
Information system that automates the creation and revision of designs using sophisticated graphics software.
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Virtual Reality Systems
Definition
Interactive graphics software and hardware that create computer-generated simulations that provide senstations that emulate real-world activities.
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Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Definition
A set of specifications for interactive three-dimensional modeling on the World Wide Web.
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Teamware
Definition
Group collaboration software that is customized for teamwork.
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Knowledge Map
Definition
Tool for identifying and locating the organization's knowledge resources.
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Enterprise Information Portal
Definition
Application that enables companies to provide users with a single gateway to internal and external sources of information.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Definition
The effort to develop computer-based systems that can behave like humans, with the ability to learn languages, accomplish physical tasks, use a perceptual apparatus, and emulate human expertise and decision making.
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expert system
Definition
Knowledge-intensive computer program that captures the expertise of a human in limited domains of knowledge.
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knowledge base
Definition
Model of human knowledge that is used by expert systems.
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AI Shell
Definition
The programming environment of an expert system.
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Inference engine
Definition
The strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert sysetem; can be forward or backward chaining.
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forward chaining
Definition
A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that begins with the information entered by the user and searches the rule base to arrive at a conclusion.
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backward chaining
Definition
A strategy for searching the rule base in an expert system that acts like a problem solver by beginning with a hypothesis and seeking out more information until the hypothesis is either proved or disproved.
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knowledge engineer
Definition
A specialist who elicits information and expertise from other professionals and translates it into a set of rules for an expert system.
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neural network
Definition
Hardware or software that attmepts to emulate the processing patterns of the biological brain.
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fuzzy logic
Definition
Rule-based AI that tolerates imprecision by using nonspecific terms called membership functions to solve problems.
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genetic algorithms
Definition
Problem-solving methods that promote the evolution of solutions to specified problems using the model of living organisms adapting to their environment.
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Hybrid AI systems
Definition
Integration of multipe AI technologies into a single application to take advantage of the best features of these technologies.
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