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- Knowledge engineer
- A person who helps build an expert system by organizing the data, devising the rules, and entering the criteria into the expert system shell. Trained to deal with experts to derive the rules needed to create an expert system. The engineer also converts the data and rules into the format needed by the expert system.
- Joint application design (JAD)
- A method to reduce design time by putting everyone in development sessions until the system is designed. Users, managers, and systems analysts participate in a series of intense meetings to design the inputs (data and screens), and outputs (reports) needed by the new system.
- Intranet
- A network within an organization that utilizes standard Internet protocols and services. Essentially, this includes Web sites that are accessible only for internal use.
- Internet
- A collection of computers loosely connected to exchange information worldwide. Owners of the computers make files and information available to other users. Common tools on the Internet include e-mail, ftp, telnet, and the World Wide Web.
- Internet service provider (ISP)
- A private company that provides connections to the Internet. Individuals pay a fee to the ISP. The ISP pays a fee to a higher-level provider (e.g., NSP) to pass all communications onto the Internet.
- Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
- A set of services, and a transmission and control system, offered by telephone companies. It uses complete digital transmission of signals to improve transmission speed and quality.
- Knowledge base
- Within an expert system, the knowledge base consists of basic data and a set of rules.
- Iterative solution
- Building a model and evaluating it until the parameter values converge to a fixed solution. Sometimes an iterative model will diverge and never reach an acceptable solution.
- Just-in-time (JIT) inventory
- A production system that relies on suppliers delivering components just as they are needed in production, instead of relying on inventory stocks. JIT requires close communication between manufacturers and suppliers.
- Kilobyte
- Approximately one thousand bytes of data. Technically it is 2 to the tenth, or 1024.
- Knowledge
- Knowledge represents a higher level of understanding, including rules, patterns and decisions. Knowledge-based systems are built to automatically analyze data, identify patterns, and recommend decisions.