DCS5144 - Supp Quiz 2

Disintermediation provides major benefits to the distributor.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In general, for digital goods, the marginal cost of producing another unit is about zero.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Net marketplaces are industry owned or operate as independent intermediaries between buyers and sellers.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The act of engaging consumers in a dialog that dynamically adjusts the experience to the individual describes which dimension of e-commerce technology?

• richness

• ubiquity

• interactivity

• Personalisation/customisation

Which business model is Photobucket most closely aligned with?

• Portal

• Social network

• Content provider

• Service provider

Rules in an expert system are typically expressed using a what-if format.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Trend analysis can be performed with geographic information systems (GIS).

• TRUE

• FALSE

The decision to approve a capital budget is an example of an unstructured decision.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Genetic algorithms ______________.

• develop solutions to particular problems using fitness, crossover, and mutation

• represent knowledge as groups of characteristics

• do not work for most problems

• are based on logic

To automate routine tasks to help firms search for and filter information for use in electronic commerce and supply chain management a firm would be most likely to use ______________.

• machine learning

• intelligent agents

• computer vision systems

• natural language processing