THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
SEMESTER TWO 2020 Campus: City
COMPUTER SCIENCE Artificial Intelligence
(Time Allowed: TWO hours)
NOTE:
This exam is out of 100 marks.
Attempt ALL questions.
Write your answers in the space provided in this booklet. There is space at the back for answers that overflow the allotted space.
The use of calculators is NOT permitted.
PART B: Mike Barley’s material
Question 11
Given a problem, P, in a unit-cost domain, where the forward and backward average branching factor is b, the optimal solution cost for P is d, and an admissible and consistent heuristic h, with an average value of x. For the sub-questions below, please specify a formula.
(A) Approximately how many nodes will be expanded by A* using h?
(B) Approximately how many nodes will be expanded by a blind bidirectional search algorithm?
(C) Under what conditions will A* expand fewer nodes than the blind bidirectional search algorithm?