Study Guide MIS 691 Midterm Chapter 2 2.2 Entity: One theme or topic; something of importance to a user that needs to be represented in a database. In the entity-relationship model‚ entities are restricted to things that can be represented by a single table. An example of this is in the EMPLOYEE table; data about the entity (the employee) is in the table rows and data about the entity’s attributes are in the rows. 2.3 List the characteristics a table must have to be a relation: *
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DISSERTATION of the University of St.Gallen‚ Graduate School of Business Administration‚ Economics‚ Law and Social Sciences (HSG) to obtain the title of Doctor of Business Administration submitted by Florian Fuhl from Germany Approved on the application of Prof. Dr. Li Choy Chong and Prof. Dr. Narendra Agrawal Dissertation No. 3211 Druckerei Lauterberg‚ Ketzin‚ 2006 The University of St.Gallen‚ Graduate School of Business Administration‚ Economics‚ Law and Social Sciences (HSG) hereby
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|| Decision Support and Expert Systems|Assignment #1 | || Introduction The following are responses to the questions for assignment #1: Review Question 6: Why is management often equated with decision-making? Management is described as “a process by which organizational goals are achieved using resources” such as people (labor)‚ capital‚ and equipment (technology); these resources must be allocated to achieve organizational goals. The degree to which management is successful is dependent
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UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM The impact of computer technology on organization and society is increasing as new technologies evolve and existing technologies expand. Interaction and cooperation between people and machines is rapidly growing to cover more and more aspects of organizational activities. Thus‚ computerized systems assist managers in building‚ analyzing‚ and utilizing models‚ graphs and charts‚ managing time and projects‚ electronically writing and transmitting
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Business analytics and data mining provided 1-800-Flowers with all of the following benefits except: Select one: a. more efficient marketing campaigns b. increased mailings and response rates c. increased repeat sales d. better customer experience and retention On the commercial side‚ the most common use of data mining has been in ________ sectors. Select one: a. manufacturing and heath care b. online retail and government c. R&D and scientific d. finance‚ retail‚ and health
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Chapter 2: Information Systems and Knowledge Management From his office window overlooking the main floor of the Harvard Cooperative Society‚ CEO Jerry Murphy can glance down and see custom- ers shopping. 19 They make their way through the narrow aisles of the crowded department store‚ picking up a sweatshirt here‚ trying on a baseball cap there‚ checking out the endless array of merchandise that bears the Harvard University insignia. Watching Murphy‚ you can well imagine the
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is a Group Decision Support System?" In this Ask Dan!‚ I’ll try to expand on my previous column.In general‚ group decision support systems (GDSS) are interactive‚ computer-based systems that facilitate solution of semi-structured and unstructured problems by a designated set of decision-makers working together as a group. A GDSS can assist groups‚ especially groups of managers‚ in analyzing problem situations and in performing group decision making tasks. GDSS include structured decision tools for
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Decision Support Systems 44 (2008) 657 – 672 www.elsevier.com/locate/dss Eight key issues for the decision support systems discipline ☆ David Arnott a‚⁎‚ Graham Pervan b a Centre for Decision Support and Enterprise Systems Research‚ Monash University‚ Melbourne‚ Australia b Curtin Business School‚ Curtin University of Technology‚ Perth‚ Australia Received 2 May 2006; received in revised form 26 August 2007; accepted 23 September 2007 Available
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Case Study #3: Decision Support‚ Artificial Intelligence‚ and B2C E-Commerce: the Case of Unilever By Dustin Allen MNGT 220-01 November 20‚ 2003 Question #1 Decision support systems‚ simply known as DSS‚ are often narrowly defined as highly flexible and interactive IT systems that are designed to support decision-making when the problem is non-structured (Haag‚ 2004). This definition expresses several keywords: support and non-structured. This means that although DSS greatly enhance
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Introduction: The report focuses on data mining approach to predict human wine taste preferences. A large data set is considered with white and red wine samples (“Vinho Verde” wine from Portugal). The inputs include objective tests (e.g. PH values) and the output is based on sensory data (median of at least 3 evaluations made by wine experts). Each expert graded the wine quality between 0 (very bad) and 10 (very excellent). Due to privacy and logistic issues‚ only physicochemical (inputs) and
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