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| Artificial intelligence (AI) |
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| A subfield of computer science concerned with studying the thought processes of humans and representing the effects of those processes via machines |
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| Applications and technologies for consolidating, analyzing, and providing access to vast amounts of data to help users make better business and strategic decisions |
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| The process of searching for valuable business information i na large database, data warehouse, or data mart |
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| A face-to-face setting for a group DSS, in which terminals are available to the participants |
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| Decision Support System (DSS) |
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| 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 |
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| A business intelligence system that provides rapid access to timely information and direct access to management reports |
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| A computer system that attempts to mimic human experts by applying reasoning methodologies or knowledge in a specific domain |
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| Geographic information system |
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| A computer-based system for capturing, integrating, manipulatin, and displaying data using digitized maps |
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| Study that attempts to find the value of the inputs necessary to achieve a desired level of output |
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| Group decidion support system (GDSS) |
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| An interactive computer-based system that supports the process of finding solutions by a group of decision makers |
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| A term that describes the various commercial applications of artificial intelligence |
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| A process by which organizational goals are achieved through the use of resources |
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| Model (in decision making) |
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| A simplified representaion, or abstraction, or reality |
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| Natural language generation (also voice synthesis) |
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| Technology that enables computers to produce ordinary language, by "voice" or on the screen, so that people can understand computers more easily |
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| Natural language processing (NLP) |
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| Communicating with a computer in the user's native language |
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| Natural language understanding |
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| The ability of a computer to comprehend instructions given in ordinary language, via the keyboard of by voice |
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| A system of programs and dat astructures that approzimates the operation of the human brain |
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| Organizational decision support system (ODSS) |
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| A DSS-BI system that focuses on an organization task or activity involving a sequence of operations and decision makers |
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| The ratio between the inputs to a process and the outputs from that process |
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| The study of the impact that changes in one (or more) parts of a model have on other parts |
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| 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 |
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| Interactive, computer-generated, three-dimensional graphics delivered to the user through a head-mounted display |
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| The study of the impact of a change in the assumptions (input data) on the proposed solution |
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