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Details Title: MIS Exam 3 Description: Ch. 10 Terms Total Flash Cards: 21 Created: 05/11/2005 18:57:27	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term 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. Term Tacit Knowledge Definition Expertise and experience of organizational members that has not been formally documented. Term 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. Term Computer Aided Design (CAD) Definition Information system that automates the creation and revision of designs using sophisticated graphics software. Term Virtual Reality Systems Definition Interactive graphics software and hardware that create computer-generated simulations that provide senstations that emulate real-world activities. Term Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Definition A set of specifications for interactive three-dimensional modeling on the World Wide Web. Term Teamware Definition Group collaboration software that is customized for teamwork. Term Knowledge Map Definition Tool for identifying and locating the organization's knowledge resources. Term Enterprise Information Portal Definition Application that enables companies to provide users with a single gateway to internal and external sources of information. Term 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. Term expert system Definition Knowledge-intensive computer program that captures the expertise of a human in limited domains of knowledge. Term knowledge base Definition Model of human knowledge that is used by expert systems. Term AI Shell Definition The programming environment of an expert system. Term Inference engine Definition The strategy used to search through the rule base in an expert sysetem; can be forward or backward chaining. Term 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. Term 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. Term 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. Term neural network Definition Hardware or software that attmepts to emulate the processing patterns of the biological brain. Term fuzzy logic Definition Rule-based AI that tolerates imprecision by using nonspecific terms called membership functions to solve problems. Term 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. Term Hybrid AI systems Definition Integration of multipe AI technologies into a single application to take advantage of the best features of these technologies.