ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad

Department of of Computer Science & Engineering

Session: ___2019-20______ Semester: ___VII_____ Section: _C_______

Course Code: ___RCS-071_____ Course Name: Soft Computing _________

Assignment 1

S.No. KL, CO Question Marks

K2, CO1 Define Soft Computing. What are the different learning paradigms? How 5
1 is it different from conventional computing?

K1, K2, What are the characteristics and components of Soft Computing? 5
2
CO1
K1, K2, What are neurons? Compare and contrast biological neuron and artificial 5
neuron. Draw diagrams of a biological neuron and the artificial equivalent,
3 CO1 with the key components labeled. Discuss how this is related to a
McCulloch-Pitts neuron
K1, K2, What is neural network architecture? Explain the different types of neural 5
4 networks. Briefly discuss the common application domains of an artificial
K3, CO1 neural network.
K4, CO1 Why Neural Networks is also called as Parallel Distributed Processing? 5
5

K1,CO1 Name all types of error based learning algorithms. Define Gradient descent
6 learning

K1, K2, What is an activation function? What is the necessity of activation 5

function? List the commonly used activation functions. Explain its
7 CO1 characteristics in neural network. Explain logistic sigmoid function with
example.

KL- Bloom’s Knowledge Level (K1,K2,K3,K4,K5,K6)

K1 – Remember K2 – Understand K3 – ApplyK4 – AnalyzeK5 – EvaluateK6– Create
 ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Department of of Computer Science & Engineering

Session: ___2019-20______ Semester: ___VIII_____ Section: C_______

Course Code: ___RCS-071_____ Course Name: Soft Computing _________

Assignment 2

S.
KL, CO Question Marks
No.
K1, K2, State the drawbacks of single layer perceptron. Name a problem which cannot 5
1 be solved by the above neural model.
CO2
K1, K2, Explain the major features of single layer perception 5
2
CO2
K1, K2, What is the Perceptron Learning Rule? State the convergence Theorem. 5
Consider the following
K3,CO2 training set :

K2, CO2 Explain what the Perceptron Learning Rule is, and discuss its advantages and 10
.4 disadvantages over attempting to compute decision boundaries analytically

K2, CO2 List all the tuning parameters of Back-propagation Neural Network . Explain 5
.5 the selection criteria of various parameters in BPN

6 K2, CO2 Write down the advantages and disadvantages of BPN. State the importance of 5
back propagation algorithm. Evaluate the output using sigmoidal function for
following network
 K1, K2, Explain the purpose of the momentum term and concept of Generalization that
7. is often included in the Back-Propagation learning algorithm
CO2

KL- Bloom’s Knowledge Level (K1,K2,K3,K4,K5,K6)

K1 – Remember K2 – Understand K3 – ApplyK4 – AnalyzeK5 – EvaluateK6– Create