SCXT 350

Exam #1 Review


Disclaimer: I have attempted to be comprehensive in the following, but important items may have been omitted by mistake. If you see such an omission, please let me know, but you are responsible for all of the lecture material to date.


The second hour exam will be held on Friday, Oct 20. It will cover


Be able to

  1. Give a description of Marr's three levels of explanation for an information processing system, and apply this approach to symple systems by way of examples.
  2. Be able to describe the various approaches to knowledge representation taken in this course. You should be able to define terms, give descriptions, and draw sketches. I might, for example, give you some facts and ask you to sketch how these facts might be represented in the various schemes we have studied.
  3. Be able to give definitions of state, operator, preconditions, and postconditions, and to say how they might apply to some particular problem. Be able to describe depth-first and breadth-first search, give a definition of heuristics (and give an example), and describe means-ends analysis and production systems (to be discussed in class on Friday, Oct. 13).


There may be more, but I think that's it. If you have any questions, please ask.