Problems from Neural Networks, Cisco Meeting Place, and ES, DSS, and AI systems

1. For the following, identify those that would be best suited for an expert system, decision support systems, or a more advanced AI system. Explain why. a. Helping students create a degree program. b. Determining how many cooks are needed each night at a large restaurant. c. Identifying potential criminals at an airport. d. Investing in the stock market. e. Hiring an employee for a technical job. f. Troubleshooting the cause of power problems on a ship. g. Predicting the impact of government economic policies. h. Evaluating crime trends within a city. 2. Identify a problem that would be well suited for a neural network. Explain how the problem would be trained. Explain why yo... click for more

Circuit Switched Network TDM

A circuit switched network uses TDM with 12 slots and has a bit rate of 1.536Mbps. How long it takes to send a file of 320,000 bits from host A to host B. Suppose that it takes 500msec to establish an end to end circuit before host A can begin to transmit the file. Explain the answer.

Circuit switched versus packet switched network

State in which situations a circuit switched network is better choice than a packet switched network and in which situation a packet switched network is better? Suppose a user shares an n Mbps link and this alternates between periods of activity (when the user generates data at a constant rate of m kbps) and periods of inactivity (When user generates no data). Suppose that the user is active 90% of the time. Which will be a better choice circuit switched network or a packet switched network?

P2P file-sharing services

List five companies that provide P2P file-sharing services. For each company, what kind of files (that is, content) do they handle?

TCP connections

Can you configure your browser to open multiple simultaneous connections to a Web site? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having large number of simultaneous TCP connections?