Muistivetoisissa

Muistivetoisissa is the inessive plural form of the Finnish adjective muistivetoisa, meaning memory-driven or memory-based. The term is used to describe entities, processes, or strategies that rely on stored information from memory rather than real-time computation or inference. In academic and technical Finnish, muistivetoisissa is typically used to refer to multiple items or contexts, for example in phrases like muistivetoisissa järjestelmissä or muistivetoisissa päätöksentekoprosesseissa.

Etymology and form: muistivetoisa is built from muist (memory) and vetoinen, a suffix indicating being driven by something. The inessive plural form muistivetoisissa marks location or context: “in memory-driven systems.”

Usage and nuance: The label is descriptive and neutral, used to distinguish approaches that prioritize stored experiences, historical data, or retrieval from memory stores from those that rely on live computation, rule-based logic, or generative processing. In artificial intelligence, memory-driven or retrieval-augmented architectures are described as muistivetoisissa järjestelmissä. In cognitive psychology or information design, the term can refer to interfaces or strategies that emphasize user history and prior interactions to guide current choices.

See also: memory-based systems, muistipohjaiset ratkaisut.