COS3751 october
november exam
pack 2022/2023
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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
January/February 2022
COS3751
Techniques of Artificial Intelligence
100 Marks
Duration 2 Hours
This is an open book exam
The use of a calculator is allowed
EXAMINERS:
FIRST: Prof I Sanders/F Bankole
SECON...
Duration 2 Hours
This is an open book exam
The use of a calculator is allowed
EXAMINERS:
FIRST: Prof I Sanders/F Bankole
SECOND: Prof E van der Poel
EXTERNAL: Prof P Machanick (Rhodes University)
This paper consists of 18 pages.
Instructions
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QUESTIONS 2 January/February 2022
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QUESTIONS 3 January/February 2022
Question 1 Intelligent Agents [16]
Searching for an X
This question involves a problem-solving agent. The environment for this problem is a 1× n
tiled strip. The tiles are all painted white on the side that is visible to the agent. Exactly one
tile has an X painted on it. The situation is as shown in Figure 1.
The agent starts in position (0) (the first tile in the strip) and must find which tile is marked
with the X.
... X ...
0
Figure 1: The tiled and labelled strip
(a) Wh
at kind of agent would be needed to solve this problem? Explain your answer. (3)
(b) D
efine a mathematical representation for the problem. This representation should be
sufficient to store all of the information required to solve the problem. (2)
(c) Sh
ow the initial state using the representation given in b above? (2)
(d) Sh
ow the goal state using the representation given in b above? (2)
T – goal found
Or a reasonable goal state based on their representation
(e) Determine an appropriate cost function for solving this problem.
Justify your answer. (3)
(f) Define the appropriate actions for this
problem. Then using the successor function
Result(a, S) 1→ St,
show how applying each action a to some state S results in some state St.
Note: for the purposes of this question you do not need to describe how the actions
could be executed. (4)
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