_____ consists of related technologies that try to simulate and reproduce human thought behavior, including thinking, speaking, feeling, and reasoning.

• Cloud computing

• Data mining

• Artificial intelligence

• Grid computing

In a natural-language processing (NLP) system, the _____ activity involves accepting human language as input, carrying out the corresponding command, and generating the necessary output.

• Interfacing

• knowledge acquisition

• analysis

• data warehousing

Which is an expert system used for monitoring what consumers are saying in blogs, comment sections, message boards, and Web-based articles?

• ASIMO

• SHINE

• COGITO

• DENDRAL

Which is a type of artificial neural network (ANN) that includes many layers to deal with complex problems that may have very large data sets?

• Virtual computing

• Sparse sampling

• Compressive sensing

• Deep learning

What can serve as search engines, site reminders, or personal surfing assistants?

• Monitoring and surveillance agents

• Heuristic-data agents

• Data-mining agents

• Shopping and information agents

In the context of applications of artificial intelligence (AI), _____ perform well at simple, repetitive tasks and can be used to free workers from tedious or hazardous jobs.

• Robots

• electronic trackers

• data mining agents

• firewalls

A _____ agent can be used to perform specific tasks for a user, such as remembering information for filling out Web forms.

• surveillance

• shopping

• data-mining

• personal

A(n) _____ consists of programs that mimic human thought behavior in a specific area that human specialists have solved successfully.

• database system

• spiral model

• evolutionary model

• expert system

Which system provides an easier way for people to communicate with a computer than a graphical user interface (GUI)?

• data mining

• transaction-processing

• natural-language processing

• data abstraction

In the context of the types of decision-making analyses, what type of analysis is used in decision support systems?

• case-based

• what-is

• what-if

• rule-based