iTicket, an online event-ticketing site, recently discovered that most of its good seats for a widely anticipated concert were preemptively booked in bulk by brokers. This resulted in a shortage of tickets that the public could have bought themselves. Which of the following would have best helped the brokers to book tickets in such large numbers?
A)neural nets
B)dashboards
C)bots
D)mashups

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Bots are automated software applications that can perform repetitive tasks at a greater speed and capacity than humans. In the case of booking tickets, bots can quickly search for and buy tickets in bulk, giving brokers an advantage and resulting in a shortage for the public.

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