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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2022/2023

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN


APPLIED COMPUTING/ BACHELOR IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
BAC 3102/ BSD 3102: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMMING
FULLTIME/ PART TIME
ORDINARY EXAMINATION
DATE: APRIL, 2023 TIME: 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS: Question ONE is COMPULSORY, Choose TWO Other Questions

QUESTION ONE (20 MARKS)


(a) Define the following terms as used in knowledge-based systems. (2 marks)
(i) Knowledge
(ii) Expert system
(b) Write the following acronyms in full as used in AI programming.
(i) PROLOG (1 mark)
(ii) LISP (1 mark)
(c) Explain the following terms of as used in PROLOG language
(i) Predicate (2 marks)
(ii) Clauses (2 marks)
(iii) Goal (2 marks)
(d) Give FOUR features/ characteristics of PROLOG that make it suitable for artificial
intelligence programming. (4 marks)
(e) Represent the following sentences in first order logic. (6 marks)
i. All men are mortal
ii. No man buys an expensive policy
iii. Every market has a mad man
QUESTION TWO (15 MARKS)
(a) Using a well labeled diagram explain Expert system development team. (5 marks)
(b) Write a prolog program to read and print an input item (5 marks)
(c) Write a Prolog program to test the input number is odd or even (5 marks)

QUESTION THREE (15 MARKS)


(a) Distinguish between forward chaining and backward chaining. (2 marks)
(b) Consider the following system of rules and facts, where the variable x stands for a patient,
“red_spots(x)” stands for “patient x has red spots”, and so forth.
IF: fever(x) & red_spots(x) THEN: measles(x)
IF: measles(x) THEN: contagious(x)
IF: runny_nose(x) THEN: cold(x)
IF: cold(x) THEN: contagious(x)
IF: fever(x) & stiff_neck(x) THEN: meningitis(x)
IF: meningitis(x) THEN: contagious(x)
IF: contagious(x) & dangerous(x) THEN: isolated(x)
IF: meningitis(x) THEN: dangerous(x)
Initial facts: runny_nose (mary), stiff_neck (john), fever (john), red_spots (mary), fever (mary)
i) What can be derived from this knowledge base by forward reasoning? Illustrate.
(6 marks)
ii) Using backward chaining determine if we need to isolate John. (7 marks)

QUESTION FOUR (15 marks)


(a) Draw a semantic network for the following scenario. (10 marks)
Pulco is a capulco
Herb is a tuna
Alahandro is a tuna
All Tunas eat fishes
All capulcos are cats
All cats eat all types of fishes
(b) Outline the components of a knowledge base. (5 marks)

QUESTION FIVE (15 marks)


(a) Using an illustration briefly explain the Turing test. (5 marks)
(b) Define the term learning agents and explain the function of learning agents in education.
(5 marks)
(c) Write a Prolog program to print a list of characters such as list(['a','b','c'],['d','e','f']]) where
the resuly is:- abcdef (5 marks)

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