Question 1

Describe an application of intelligent agents that is in use today.

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Question 2

In a natural-language processing (NLP)system,the _________ activity involves using the computer to read large amounts of text and understand the information well enough to summarize important points and store information so the system can respond to inquiries about the content.

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A) interfacing 
B) knowledge acquisition 
C) analytics 
D) data warehousing​

Question 3

Identify the characteristic of an intelligent agent that demonstrates its ability to learn from previous knowledge and go beyond information given previously.

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A) Autonomy 
B) Adaptability 
C) Reactivity 
D) Mobility

Question 4

The four Rs involved in design and implementation of any case-based reasoning application are retrieve,reuse,revise,and _____.

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A) react 
B) reserve 
C) reason 
D) retain

Question 5

_____ perform well at simple,repetitive tasks and can be used to free workers from tedious or hazardous jobs.

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A) Robots 
B) Nanomaterials 
C) Data mining agents 
D) Personal agents

Question 6

_____ agents usually track and report on computer equipment and network systems to predict when a system crash or failure might occur.

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A) Shopping and information 
B) Monitoring and surveillance 
C) Data-mining 
D) Personal

Question 7

In backward chaining technique used by the inference engine component,an expert system starts with the _____ condition.

Accepted Answer

A) if 
B) then 
C) else 
D) what-is

Question 8

_________ algorithms are search algorithms that mimic the process of natural evolution.They are used to generate solutions to optimization and search problems using such techniques as mutation,selection,crossover,and chromosome.

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A) Genetic 
B) Memetic 
C) Firefly 
D) Evolutionary

Question 9

Discuss the situations which are unsuitable for expert systems.

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Question 10

The _____ component of an expert system is important because it helps give users confidence in the system's results.

Accepted Answer

A) explanation facility 
B) knowledge acquisition facility 
C) inference engine 
D) meta-knowledge

Question 11

In the context of the different techniques used by an inference engine to manipulate a series of rules in _________,a series of "if-then-else" condition pairs is performed.

Accepted Answer

A) forward chaining 
B) backward chaining 
C) inference engine 
D) explanation facility

Question 12

_____ is an expert system used for monitoring consumer sentiments in blogs,comment sections,and Web-based articles.

Accepted Answer

A) ASIMO 
B) SHINE 
C) COGITO 
D) DENDRAL

Question 13

In the artificial intelligence (AI)field,_____ engineers try to discover "rules of thumb" that enable computers to perform tasks usually handled by humans.

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A) software 
B) data 
C) systems 
D) knowledge

Question 14

In the context of expert systems,_____ consist of common sense,rules of thumb,educated guesses,and instinctive judgments.

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A) nanomaterials 
B) heuristics 
C) quick response codes 
D) swift codes

Question 15

Describe the four advantages offered by robots over humans in the workplace.

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Question 16

GeneHunter is a hybrid product that combines AI technologies using _____.

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A) natural-language processing 
B) virtual language processing 
C) genetic algorithms 
D) biometric systems

Question 17

_________ allows a smooth,gradual transition between human and computer vocabularies and deals with variations in linguistic terms by using a degree of membership.

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A) Fuzzy logic 
B) Virtual reality 
C) Data mining 
D) Genetic Algorithms

Question 18

Instead of using the if-then-else rules that expert systems use,_____ use patterns.

Accepted Answer

A) virtual reality simulations 
B) artificial neural networks 
C) intelligent agents 
D) genetic algorithms

Question 19

_____ was the first expert system developed to determine the chemical structure of molecules.

Accepted Answer

A) ASIMO 
B) SHINE 
C) DENDRAL 
D) COGITO

Question 20

Describe shopping and information agents.

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Exam 13: Intelligent Information Systems