Code: 9A02707 B.

Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, November 2012 SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 (a) Explain about biological neuron. (b) Explain about the applications of artificial neural networks. 2 (a) (b) 3 4 5 (a) (b) 6 7 8 What are the types of neuron activations functions? What are the learning strategies for artificial neural networks? Explain about the Perceptron training algorithms. Explain about the bidirectional associative memory What are the properties, operations of classical sets? Explain the relations of classical sets. What is fuzzification? Explain about the defuzzification to crisp sets. Explain about the basic operations and technologies in genetic algorithms. Briefly explain about the artificial neural networks based short term load forecasting.

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Code: 9A02707 B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, November 2012 SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 (a) Explain about artificial neuron. (b) Explain about the characteristics of artificial neural networks. 2 3 (a) (b) 4 5 (a) (b) 6 7 8 (a) (b) Explain about the classification taxonomy of artificial neural networks. Explain about the back propagation network. Explain about back propagation learning. Explain about the training algorithms for pattern association. Explain about the operations of fuzzy sets. Explain about the fuzzy relations. Explain about the development of rule base and decision making system. Explain the differences between traditional and genetic algorithm. Explain about the load flow studies. Explain about the genetic algorithm based economic dispatch.

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Code: 9A02707 B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, November 2012 SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 2 3 (a) (b) 4 5 (a) (b) 6 7 8 (a) (b) Explain about the basic models of artificial neural networks. Explain about the architecture of artificial neural networks. Explain about the Perceptron network. Explain about the radial basis function. Discuss about the hetero associative memory network. What are the properties of fuzzy sets? Explain about the cardinalities in fuzzy sets. Define fuzzification. Explain about the defuzzification methods. Explain about the basic operators and basic technologies in genetic algorithm. Explain about the fuzzy logic based unit commitment. Explain about the load flow studies. *****

Code: 9A02707 B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R09) Regular Examinations, November 2012 SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 70 Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks ***** 1 (a) Explain about the Mc Culloch-Pitts neuron model. (b) Briefly explain about the characteristics of artificial neural networks. 2 (a) (b) 3 4 5 (a) (b) 6 7 (a) (b) 8 Explain the operations of artificial neuron. Discuss about the supervised learning strategy. Explain about the ADALINE, MADALINE algorithms. Briefly explain about the Hopfield networks. Differentiate between classical sets and fuzzy sets. Explain about the membership functions in fuzzy sets. Explain the differences between fuzzification and defuzzification. Explain about the mutation operator. Explain about the basic operators in genetic algorithms. Briefly explain about the artificial neural networks based short term load forecasting. *****