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    The document contains short-answer and discussion questions about various types of decision support systems and artificial intelligence techniques including: 1. The four types of decisions discussed are strategic, tactical, operational, and unstructured decisions. Examples are given for each type. 2. Geographic information systems are designed to work with geographic or spatial data. 3. The five intelligence tasks helped by data mining are description, prediction, prescription, discovery, and visualization. The questions ask about uses of different AI systems like predictive analytics, text analytics, expert systems, neural networks, and more. Applications in areas like marketing, customer retention, tax forms, routing, and more are discussed.

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    The document contains short-answer and discussion questions about various types of decision support systems and artificial intelligence techniques including: 1. The four types of decisions discussed are strategic, tactical, operational, and unstructured decisions. Examples are given for each type. 2. Geographic information systems are designed to work with geographic or spatial data. 3. The five intelligence tasks helped by data mining are description, prediction, prescription, discovery, and visualization. The questions ask about uses of different AI systems like predictive analytics, text analytics, expert systems, neural networks, and more. Applications in areas like marketing, customer retention, tax forms, routing, and more are discussed.

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    The document contains short-answer and discussion questions about various types of decision support systems and artificial intelligence techniques including: 1. The four types of decisions discussed are strategic, tactical, operational, and unstructured decisions. Examples are given for each type. 2. Geographic information systems are designed to work with geographic or spatial data. 3. The five intelligence tasks helped by data mining are description, prediction, prescription, discovery, and visualization. The questions ask about uses of different AI systems like predictive analytics, text analytics, expert systems, neural networks, and more. Applications in areas like marketing, customer retention, tax forms, routing, and more are discussed.

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    SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS

    1. What are the four types of decision discussed in this chapter? Give an example of
    each.

    2. What type of information is a geographic information system designed


    specifically to work with?

    3. What are the five intelligence-related tasks that data-mining tools and models
    help you address?

    4. What is predictive analytics?

    5. What is text analytics?

    6. What sort of problems is an expert system used for?

    7. What sort of problem does a neural network solve?

    8. Why is fuzzy logic important to text analytics?

    9. What is an agent-based technology?

    DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

    1. WHICH SOFTWARE WOULD YOU USE? Which type or types of computer-aided


    decision support software would you use for each of the situations in the
    following tasks? Note why you think each of your choices is appropriate. The
    decision support alternatives are:
     Decision support system
     Geographic information system
     Expert system
     Neural network
     Genetic algorithm
     Intelligent agent

    Problem Type of Decision


    Support
    You and another marketing executive on a different
    continent want to develop a new pricing structure for
    products
    You want to predict when customers are about to take
    their business elsewhere
    You want to fill out a short tax form
    You want to determine the fastest route for package
    delivery to 23 different addresses in a city
    You want to decide where to spend advertising dollars
    (TV, radio, newspaper, direct mail, e-mail)
    You want to keep track of competitors’ prices for
    comparable goods and services

    2. IDENTIFYING PREDICTIVE INDICATORS Think about your school and its building
    of a predictive analytics model. What do you believe would be the ten most
    important predictive indicators for determining whether or not an applicant to
    your school will attend if accepted? Think very broadly here in terms of all the
    factors a potential student might use in making his or her choice.

    3. Consider the topic of data warehouses in Chapter 3. In the future, AI systems will
    be increasingly applied to data warehouse processing. Which AI systems do you
    think might be helpful? For which tasks, or situations, might they best be
    applied? Do you think that AI systems will someday play a greater role in the
    design of databases and data warehouses? Why or why not?

    4. Consider the differences and similarities among the four AI techniques discussed
    in this chapter. Name some problems that might be amenable to more than one
    type of AI system. Say you sell baseballs from your Web site. What types of AI
    systems could you use to generate information that would be useful to you in
    deciding what direction to take your company in the future? If you were pretty
    successful at selling baseballs, would you expect to have the amount of
    information on customers that, say Wal-Mart, has? Why or why not?

    5. What type of AI systems could your school use to help with registration?
    Intelligent agents find vast amounts of information very quickly. Neural networks
    can classify patterns simultaneously. What sort of information might your school
    administration be able to generate using these (or other AI systems)?

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