St. JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF ENGG.

M.E. POWER ELECTRONICS

SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FOR UNIT TEST 1

1. Write down the step by step algorithm for training the BPN. Explain its basic principle of
modifying the weights. What is gradient descent technique? What are its applications,
advantages, disadvantages?
2. What is ADALINE and MADALINE? What are its applications? Draw the architecture
of both network. Explain the step by step procedure of the training. List out some
activation function examples with equation and curves.
3. Explain the implementation of EX-OR function using Mc-Culloch and pitts model of
neural network with suitable active function.
4. Explain perceptron training algorithm with its architecture diagram. What is supervised
learning, unsupervised learning, reinforced learning? Give some example problems.
5. Compare conventional computing and swarm computing. What is swarm intelligence?
What is meant by linear separability? Give some example.
6. Compare hard computing and soft computing.What are the characteristics or properties of
swarm intelligence and Artificial Neural Network. What is discrete and continuous
activation function?