Final Question #4

Question # 3:
1. Describe or define KBS.
2. Distinguish KBS from MIS.
3. Illustrate (give examples) how KBS can improve company's competitive advantage and organizational performance.

1. Knowledge Based System is a system which attempts to use a database to solve problems by inference. These are sometimes called expert systems.

2. KBS the strength of multimedia in communicating output from complex mathematical models is equally applicable to knowledge base system, and MIS a computer-based system that makes information available to users with similar needs

3.One of the example of KBS is the information overload that cause a critical problem in the in both military and commercial decision making processes, so KBS provide a flexible, user definable and highly scalable solution to these problems by wedding intelligent multi-agent software with a user-focused graphical interface to provide improved decision making in dynamic environments and improved situational awareness. The business organizations become more vital to the organizational mission, they also grow larger, faster, more complex, more heterogeneous, and more difficult to protect.