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This document provides instructions for a take-home midterm exam in artificial intelligence. It consists of 4 pages with 3 questions. Students are instructed to answer the questions in a Word document and submit it on Blackboard by the due date and time. The questions cover topics like utility-based agents, search problems, and constraint satisfaction problems.

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MidTerm AI PDF

This document provides instructions for a take-home midterm exam in artificial intelligence. It consists of 4 pages with 3 questions. Students are instructed to answer the questions in a Word document and submit it on Blackboard by the due date and time. The questions cover topics like utility-based agents, search problems, and constraint satisfaction problems.

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Mid‐Term Exam (Take‐Home) Fall ‐ 2020 

 
Subject: Artificial Intelligence                         Submission Day:  Sunday 

Instructor: Engr. DARAKHSHAN SYED, Engr.  SYED SAFDAR HUSSAIN,  DR. AARIJ MAHMOOD HUSSAAN ‐,                          

Submission Date: 29th November 2020 

Program: Computer Science                      Max. Marks: 25 

Department of _____Computer Science_______________ 

Please follow the instructions carefully: 

1. Write your answers in a Word file and upload the file before the due date on BlackBoard.
2. Write your name and registration ID on the first page of your Word file.
3. Answer scripts can be uploaded on BlackBoard any time before its deadline.
Therefore, do not wait for the last hour to avoid any unforeseen problems.
4. Submission of answer copy(ies) will be considered acceptable through BlackBoard
only. Therefore, do not submit your document through email or any other medium.
5. Use 12 pt. font size and Times New Roman font style along with 1-inch page margins.
6. Follow the requirements of the word limit and the marking criteria while writing your
answers
7. Provide relevant, original and conceptual answers, as this exam aims to test your ability to
examine, explain, modify or develop concepts discussed in class.
8. Do not copy answers from the internet or other sources. The plagiarism of your answers may
be checked through Turnitin.
9. Recheck your answers before the submission on BlackBoard to correct any content or
language related errors.
10. Double check your word file before uploading it on BlackBoard to ensure that you have
uploaded the correct file with your answers.

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Question 1) Agents 03 marks


Describe a utility-based agent for an autonomous delivery robot. You must describe the
following for this agent:

 How the utility will be measures?


 How will it differ from Goal Based Agent?
 What information would it require of the environment to make good decisions.
 How can you convert this agent to a learning agent? Describe the working of the different
components

Question 2) Search 12 marks


Consider the game Move the Block (gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d0NcUougD4). Move the Block : Slide Puzzle is a simple
game whose goal is sliding block puzzle game. The game instructions are extremely simple
(https://www.apkonline.net/games/puzzle/move-the-block-slide-puzzle-online-android):

 You have to move the red block in order to the exit.


 You can move horizontal blocks from side to side
 You can move vertical blocks up and down.

The game has also the following characteristics:

 Your representation of the game should take into account that the grid size i.e. the
number of rows and columns would be as follows:
o number of rows >= 7
o number of columns >= 8
 There could be an arbitrary number of blocks in the puzzle, however, the puzzle will
always have a solution
 The puzzle could also have many solutions
 You will be given the best possible solution
 Every slide will cost +1

For the game described above do the following

a) Describe the agent using the PEAS framework. Also describe the characteristics of the
task environment.
b) Model this game as a search problem. You have to describe the following:
i. Data structure to be used to represent the state
ii. State space
iii. Initial State

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iv. Successor Function


v. Actions
vi. Goal Test
c) Calculate the branching factor and possible size of the state space in terms of grid size
and blocks available.
d) Use the following puzzle to show the working of the BFS and IDS for upto depth = 3.
Show the contents of the frontier list, and the selected node at every step.

e) Develop two admissible heuristics for this problem. Also show that they are admissible.
f) Use the heuristics developed in part (e) to run A* search and Greedy Search to a depth =
5. Show the contents of the frontier list, and the selected node at every step.
g) Describe in your words why UCS is optimal

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Question 3) Constraint Satisfaction Problem 10 marks


Consider this variant of Sudoku

Calcudoku puzzles are similar to Sudoku, but also require some basic math skills to solve.
(https://www.calcudoku.org/en/2020-11-20/6/1)

The rules are:

I. the 4×4 puzzle uses the numbers 1-4, the 6×6 the numbers 1-6, and so on
II. in each row and in each column each digit can appear only once (just like in Sudoku)
III. each "cage" (the blocks with the thick border) shows a result and an operation (addition:
+, subtraction: -, multiplication: ×, or division: :). The operation applied to the numbers
in the cage should produce the result shown. Note that for subtraction and division the
order is not fixed (!)

More about this type of Sudoku can be found over the internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KenKen. Do not worry you are not going to be asked to solve the
puzzle here. However, you are required to answer the following questions:

I. Model this problem as a CSP problem


II. What could be the time complexity of this problem if we solve this problem using DFS?
III. Apply vanilla backtracking on this problem for at-least 10 iterations. Show the domains
of the selected variables after every iteration
IV. Apply backtracking with Forward Checking for 5 iterations, show the variables whose
domains will be reduced if you follow the Most Constraining Variable heuristic. Show
the domains of the variables after every iteration
V. Apply arc-consistency and show the resulting domain of variables.
 

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