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  2. Utility software - Wikipedia

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    Utility software. Utility software is a program specifically designed to help manage and tune system or application software. [1] It is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. However, utilities often form part of the application ...

  3. List of statistical software - Wikipedia

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    gretl is an example of an open-source statistical package. ADaMSoft – a generalized statistical software with data mining algorithms and methods for data management; ADMB – a software suite for non-linear statistical modeling based on C++ which uses automatic differentiation; Chronux – for neurobiological time series data; DAP – free ...

  4. Computer program - Wikipedia

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    A utility program is designed to aid system administration and software execution. Operating systems execute hardware utility programs to check the status of disk drives, memory, speakers, and printers. [140] A utility program may optimize the placement of a file on a crowded disk. System utility programs monitor hardware and network performance.

  5. Programming tool - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications. The term usually refers to relatively simple programs, that can be combined to accomplish a task, much as one might use multiple hands to fix a physical object ...

  6. Multiple-criteria decision analysis - Wikipedia

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    In this example a company should prefer product B's risk and payoffs under realistic risk preference coefficients. Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making (both in daily life and in settings such as business, government and medicine).

  7. Intelligent agent - Wikipedia

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    Intelligent agent. In intelligence and artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an agent that perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously in order to achieve goals, and may improve its performance with learning or acquiring knowledge. An intelligent agent may be simple or complex: A thermostat or other control system is ...

  8. Utility computing - Wikipedia

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    Utility is the packaging of system resources, such as computation, storage and services, as a metered service. This model has the advantage of a low or no initial cost to acquire computer resources; instead, resources are essentially rented. This repackaging of computing services became the foundation of the shift to "on demand" computing ...

  9. Social welfare function - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In welfare economics and social choice theory, a social welfare function —also called a social ordering, ranking, utility, or choice function —is a function that ranks a set of social states by their desirability. A social welfare function may yield several possible outcomes; each person's preferences are combined in some way to ...