Chapter 13: Intelligent Information System

Question 1

Artificial Intelligence

Answer 1

technologies that attempt to simulate and reproduce human thought/ behaviour

Question 2

AI technologies, computer application require (4)

Answer 2

knowledge, perception, understanding and cognitive abilities

Question 3

Robotics

Answer 3

evolve from AI, autonomous operations and perform tasks

Question 4

Robotics operations and control
_____ _____ in tedious jobs
controlled by _____ _____
include _____ _____
Perform ____ ____ tasks

Answer 4

autonomous operation in tedious or hazardous jobs (free workers)
controlled by computer program
include programming language
perform simple repetitive tasks

Question 5

Expert Systems

Answer 5

Is an AI system that mimics human expertise in a field to solve problem

Question 6

Expert Systems used for activities that humans have already _____ _____ etc

Answer 6

handled successfully etc medicine, geology, education

Question 7

expert systems: Heuristic data 2 ->Solve problems

Answer 7

knowledge based experience, available data to solve/describe problems

Question 8

Factual Knowledge

Answer 8

facts related to discipline, subject, or problem

Question 9

Heuristic Knowledge

Answer 9

Gain knowledge or result through intelligent guesswork

Question 10

Meta-knowledge

Answer 10

knowledge about knowledge (how expert system makes decisions)

Question 11

Intelligence Agents

Answer 11

software capable of reason and following rule-based program

Question 12

Intelligence Agents known as (3)

Answer 12

bots (robots)
virtual agents (VA’s)
intelligent virtual agents (IVA’s)

Question 13

Shopping and Information Agents

Answer 13

help users navigate through resources available on web

Question 14

Personal Agents

Answer 14

perform specific task for user:
- remember information from filling out forms, email address completion

Question 15

Data-mining agents (work with data warehouse)

Answer 15

detect trends, discover information/relationships among data

Question 16

monitoring and surveillance agents

Answer 16

track and report on computer equipment/network systems to predict when crash/failure will occur

Question 17

Machine Learning

Answer 17

computers can learn without explicitly programmed

Question 18

Artificial Neural Networks
- examples
- type of model

Answer 18

networks learn and do tasks that are difficult with conventional computers etc chess, recognize faces
input/output model

Question 19

Artificial Neural Networks uses (3)

Answer 19

• bankruptcy prediction, credit rating, target marketing
• poorly structured programs
• patterns instead of if-then-else

Question 20

Fuzzy logic

Answer 20

computing based on “degrees of truth” rather than “true or false”. Truth value of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1

Question 21

Fuzzy Logic allows a smooth transition between…….

Answer 21

human and computer vocabularies

Question 22

Fuzzy logic deals with variation in linguistics terms by using

Answer 22

linguistic terms by using membership degree

Question 23

Fuzzy logic is designed to help computers………

Answer 23

simulate vagueness and uncertainty in common situations

Question 24

Genetic Algorithms (GAs)

Answer 24

search algorithms that mimic process of natural selection and biological evolution

Question 25

GAs are used to generate solutions to (2)

Answer 25

optimization and search problems

Question 26

GAs attributes (4) m.s.c.ct

Answer 26

mutation, selection, crossover, chromosome techniques

Question 27

GAs are designed to find combination of

Answer 27

inputs that generate most desirable outputs

Question 28

Natural Language Processing (2)

Answer 28

- users communicate with computers in human language - provide question and answer format

Question 29

NLP is used for (3)

Answer 29

Phone call routing, stock and bond trade, banking by phone

Question 30

NLP Categories (Chatgpt) (5)

Answer 30

interface to database, machine translation, text scanning, generating text, speech systems

Question 31

Activities Performed by NLP Systems: Interfacing (3)

Answer 31

accept human language as input carrying out corresponding command generating necessary output

Question 32

Activities Performed by NLP Systems: Knowledge Acquisition (3)

Answer 32

- computer reads large amount of text and understand information - summarize important points, store information so system responds to inquiries

Question 33

Contextual Computing (6,7,8th sense)

Answer 33

- computer environment always present and capable perceiving surroundings - offer recommendations based on individual need and requirement - tailor course of action based on what if knows

Question 34

Contextual computing principle

Answer 34

computers can both sense and react to environments (similar to how human brains)