- Intelligent support systems
Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS) is a term that describes the various commercial applications of
artificial intelligence (AI).Knowledge-based systems andintelligent systems are important components of an organization's information systems portfolio (Hayes-Roth 1997; Hayes-Roth and Jacobstein 1994).Expert systems represent new developments in theinformation technology area. They emerged as practical applications of research in artificial intelligence. Today expert systems combine knowledge of a particular application area with aninference capability to enable the system to reach a level of decision making performance comparable to (or even exceeding) that of human experts in some specialized areas.Ideally, intelligent decisions support systems should behave like a human consultant; supporting decision makers in better understanding their problems.
Intelligent agent s are small programs that reside on computers to automate certain tasks. An example from this is a virus detection program. This intelligent agent runs in the background, monitors the environment and reacts to certain trigger conditions.A
software agent , either intelligent or not, is a program that performs a specific task for a user. An intelligent agent performs, reactively and/or pro-actively, interactive tasks tailored to a user’s needs without humans or other agents telling it what to do. Characteristics of software agents include cooperation, independence, learning, reasoning, and intelligence.A software agent plays the role of an intelligent, dedicated and competent personal assistant.
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) can approve of intelligent systems, but the development of the possibilities was not there until the year 2000, when Chang, Jiang and Tang did research on this topic. The conclusion of their study was that development of intelligent decision support tools for the design of FMS is now within the realm of possibility.
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