CS/DEC 2019/ISP543/ITS661

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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FINAL EXAMINATION

COURSE KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS

COURSE CODE ISP543/ITS661

EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2019

TIME 3 HOURS

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1 This question paper consists of five (5) questions.

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QUESTION 1

a) Define expert system and human expert.

(4 marks)
b) Briefly describe THREE (3) characteristics of expert system.
(6 marks)
c) Illustrate the structure ofhuman expert problem solving.

(4 marks)
d) Describe the problem types assessment in knowledge engineering below:
i) Diagnosis
ii) Selection
iii) Prediction
(6 marks)

QUESTION 2

a) Differentiate between heuristic knowledge and tacit knowledge. Support your answer
with an example.
(8 marks)
b) Consider the following knowledge base.
Rulel Rule 3
IF Purpose is business trip IF Rating in 5 stars
AND Duration is long OR Food serve is Japanese
AND Budget is medium OR Accommodation is spa
OR Location is mountain AND Accommodation is fitness center
THEN Hotel is Jungfrau Meridian THEN Hotel is Niseko Hilton

Rule 2 Rule 4
IF Purpose is vacation IF Rating in 3 stars
AND Duration medium OR Food serve is Mexican
OR Budget is high OR Accommodation is swimming pool
AND Location is beach AND Accommodation is business center
THEN Hotel is Le Ferouse THEN Hotel is Las Carritas

i) A client comes along for a consultation on which hotel he should choose. Known
data are; client is Japanese and prefers a Japanese food, he loves to exercise in
fitness center and favor a 5 stars hotel. Use forward chaining to advice the client a
suitable hotel.

(3 marks)

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i) Using backward chaining, find facts that suffice the following conclusion.
1) A client chooses to spend their holiday in Las Carritas.
2) Aclient chooses to spend their holiday in Jungfrau Meridian.
3) A client chooses to spend their holiday in Le Ferouse.
(8 marks)

QUESTION 3

a) Consider the following statement:

When a burglar alarm sounds, if it is in one of students' house where alarm sounds
every week, ignore it. Otherwise have a look outside and if the house looks not broken
into and there is nobody moving inside it, ignore the alarm. Otherwise call police.

Write possible production rules from the statement above.

(6 marks)

b) Construct a semantic network for the following knowledge:

Zaim, a human being, owns four pieces of furniture: a table, two chairs and a bookshelf
in his' office. All four pieces of furniture are made of wood. The table and chairs have four
legs. The colors of the table and bookshelf are blue and white respectively. The first
chair is brown color and Wafi is sitting on this chair. The second chair is black color and
Misha, Zaim's secretary, is sitting on this chair.
(11 marks)

c) Define knowledge elicitation.

(2 marks)

d) Describe FOUR (4) reasons why case study is better than interview method.
(8 marks)

QUESTION 4

a) Describe THREE (3) case representations in case-based reasoning.

(6 marks)

b) You were asked to develop an Agriculture Expert System.

i) Suggest ONE (1) type of recommendation that can be provided by the system.
(1 mark)

ii) Identify THREE (3) input variables and THREE (3) values for each variable that
might be related to the system.
(6 marks)

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iii) State ONE (1) domain knowledge that is useful for the system.
(1 mark)

QUESTION 5

a) Explain THREE (3) considerations in selecting expert system software.

(6 marks)

b) You need to design conclusion page of an expert system. Recommend TWO (2)
contents that should be displayed on conclusion page.
(4 marks)

c) Given finance dataset that consists of loan status; approve and reject. Apply k-Nearest
Neighbour algorithm for case base reasoning in classifying a new data with k= 3. Given
the Euclidean distance formula, as below:

dist((x, y, z), (a, b, c)) = V[(x - a)2 + (y - b)2 + (z - c)2]

Find the loan status for a new data shown in Table 1. Table 2 consists of the data from
finance data.

Attributes Values
Income per month 5000
Average spending per month 2500
Others loan commitment (in total per month) 800

Table 1

Attributes 1 2 3 4
Income per month 10000 8400 4800 3000
Average spending per 5200 6000 3000 900
month
Others loan commitment (in 2000 2300 1500 1100
total per month)
Loan Status approve reject approve approve

Table 2

(10 marks)

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