Exam 13: Intelligent Information Systems

Personal agents can serve as search engines,site reminders,or personal surfing assistants.

_____ are software capable of reasoning and following rule-based processes.

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are already used with neural networks and fuzzy logic systems to solve scheduling,engineering design,and marketing problems.

Developments in artificial intelligence-related fields,such as expert systems and natural-language processing,will affect the future development of the robotics industry.

_____ is designed to help computers simulate vagueness and uncertainty in common situations.

Explanation capabilities can be added to a decision support system (DSS) by integrating it with a(n) _____.

In the context of an expert system,what is the factual knowledge component of a knowledge base? Provide an example.

The size and complexity of the human language has made developing _____ systems difficult.

_____ was the first expert system developed to determine the chemical structure of molecules.

What technologies are used in artificial intelligence (AI)?

In the context of components of a typical expert system,a(n) _____ performs tasks similar to what a human expert does by explaining to end users how recommendations are derived.

An expert system is not a good choice when a lot of human expertise is needed to tackle a problem and a single expert cannot tackle the problem on his or her own.

Every artificial neural network (ANN) has to be trained,and when organizational policies change,the network needs to be retrained so that it can mimic the new policies.

Genetic algorithms (GAs) can examine complex problems without any assumptions of what the correct solution should be.

In the context of components of a typical expert system,a(n) _____ is similar to a database,but in addition to storing facts and figures,it keeps track of rules and explanations associated with facts.

A(n) _____ can be used to automatically fill out Web forms.

How is an expert system used in the forensics lab work?

Describe the criteria for using expert systems.

In the artificial intelligence (AI) field,_____ engineers try to discover "rules of thumb" that enable computers to perform tasks usually handled by humans.

In the context of the types of decision-making analyses,the _____ analysis is commonly used in transaction-processing systems and management information systems.