NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

UNIVERSITY VILLAGE, PLOT 91, CASDASTRAL ZONE, NNAMDI AZIKIWE EXPRESS WAY, JABI, ABUJA.
FACULTY OF SCIENCES
MARCH/APRIL 2015 EXAMINATION

COURSE CODE:                                                                              CIT478                

COURSE TITLE:                                                                             Artificial Intelligence

TIME ALLOWED:                                                                          2½ Hours

INSTRUCTIONS:                                                                            Answer any Four (4) Questions

Q1.a     Explain the term "Agent" in the Artificial Intelligence                                                        (4 marks)

      b.   List and explain three (3) fundamental facilities of intelligence                                      (9 marks)

      c.    Mention three (3) to Characteristics of percept-based agents.                                       (4.5marks)

Q2.a     Describe a Turing Test in Artificial Intelligence                                                                 (3 marks)

      b.   List three (3) features of Knowledge Representation Language                                               (4.5 marks)

      c.    Mention and explain five (5) areas where LISP programming Language can be used.(10 marks)

Q3.a     Explain the word "ROBOTICS" and list three (3) components of robotics                      (4 marks)

      b.   Identify three (3) uses of LISP programming language.                                                  (9 marks)

      c.    List three (3) areas where Robots can be used.                                                                (4 marks)

Q4.a     Explain Knowledge Representation in terms of the distinct roles it plays.                    (4 marks)

      b.   Give the full meaning of the following acronyms :

(i)        GIGO               (ii)       ALVINN                      (iii)      UCS

(iv)      LDS                 (v)       KBS                             (vi)      OIL

(vii)     FOL                 (viii)    IPL                              (ix) XML                                 (9 marks)

      c.    Identify three (3) examples of Agents                                                                               (4.5marks)

Q5.a     Describe a Goal Directed Agent with a diagram.                                                                (4 marks)

      b.   Identify any three (3) tasks in Natural Language Processing.                                        (4.5 marks)

      c.    Write short note on each of the following as apply to AI

(i)        Observability                         (ii) Determinism       

(iii)      Dynamism                                                                                              (3 marks each)

Q6.a     What is Heuristic?                                                                                                                 (4 marks)

      b.   List and explain three Characteristics of a good knowledge representation.                 (9 marks)

      c.    Identify three (3) specialized programming languages suitable for artificial

intelligence.                                                                                                                           (4.5 marks)