MSCI 2130 Study Guide - Final Guide: Turing Test, Buyer Brokerage, Geographic Information System
7 May 2018
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Chapter 3: Intelligent System, Data Visualization and Geographic
Information Systems
Definitions:
• Algorithm: a problem-solving method expressed as a finite sequence
of steps
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): a subfield of computer science that is
concerned with studying the thought processes of humans and
recreating the effects of those processes via machines, such as
computers
• Buyer Agent (or Shopping Bot): an intelligent agent on a Web site that
helps customers find products and services that they needs
• Expert Systems: computer systems that attempt to mimic human
experts by applying expertise in a specific domain
• Fuzzy Logic: a branch of mathematics that deals with uncertainties by
simulating the processes of human reasoning
• Genetic Algorithm: an approach that mimics the evolutionary, survival
of the fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a
problem
• Information Agent: a type of intelligent agent that searches for
information and displays it to users
• Intelligent Agent: a software program that assists you, or acts on your
behalf, in performing repetitive, computer related tasks
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