Cognitive System? How Can It Assist To Real-Time Decision Making?

Question 1: What is a cognitive system? How can it assist to real-time decision making?

Answer: A cognitive system is something that understands better the way human beings process

during complex situations. Sometimes these systems can be in the form of machines. Their main

function is to understand a person’s cognitive functions and can be used by people who have a

difficult time in processing their information related to their business for example in the medical

field the information of the patients that become double in every 5 years and becomes difficult to

process by the people. Cognitive functions have a close relation to psychology. A machinery that

helps a human being to perform better and to access its information in
These intelligent systems

help by first of all analyzing the information and then looking for the problem which basically

helps n formulating a model that gives us a solution by providing alternatives and then predicting

the outcomes. In this way the person using this system has a great helping hand in real time

decision making.

Question 2: What is evidence based decision making?

Answer: Evidence based decision making has been explained by different and various ways but

according to me it is something that involves decisions on the basis of information. It is that

decision making that is combined by clinical expertise the concerns if their patients involved and

also the main thing that is the evidence that is gathered from scientific literature to arrive at a

diagnosis and a recommendation for treatment. All this information when gathered together and

used to make a decision in the field of medical science using the past information is known

evidence based decision making. The essence of decision making that it is based on the hard

facts and not on the basis of instincts. Evidence is something that has been proved and is
Any computerized system would obviously better handle large amounts of data

other than human resources. Watson here explains to us that information when handled by a

cognitive system helps us to understand what decisions are to be made and how a machine will

analyze the whole situation on its intelligence and will take decisions based on the information

and data that is available with it and stored in its system.

Question 4: Does Watson eliminate the need for human decision making?

Answer: Yes in a way Watson does eliminate the need for humans to make decision because its

theory lies on how a machine understands the way that humans think and function and therefore

reduce the pressure and duty of making decisions on humans by providing them a full analysis of

the data that is available, finding out what the problem is, constructing a solution or solutions,

choosing from alternatives to solve the problem and hence completely performing the function of

making decisions. This system makes things easier for an organization especially in the medical

field because in the medical field it had been proved by survey that the data in the medical