DP Computer Science Questionbank

Outline one advantage for Narayan City of using collective intelligence to solve complex problems such as changing the layout of roads.

Many social networking sites allow users to classify their posts and responses, for example by adding one or more “hashtags”.

To what extent does the increasing number of social networking sites and the creation of folksonomies contribute to web users modifying their online behaviour?

Discuss the technologies that ambient intelligence uses in this specific scenario.

With a focus on privacy, discuss how traffic data from WiFi communication through smartphones can be used in this scenario.

With the use of an example, explain how a multimedia search in the semantic web would be preferable to a text based search for this student.

Discuss whether it is possible to integrate the expressivity of folksonomies with the authoritativeness of ontologies.

Identify three differences between an ontology and a folksonomy.

Open source software, such as Linux, is often developed by using the collective intelligence of the developer community.

Explain how collective intelligence can lead to the successful development of open source software.

Outline two issues that may arise from using a non-text based search.

OBI has decided to gather information for one project by utilizing collective intelligence.

Evaluate this decision.

Southend Council in England is considering whether to use Pepper, a humanoid robot, to assist some elderly residents that live in care homes. These elderly residents suffer from memory loss and would rely on Pepper to direct them them to and from the local shops. Pepper uses ambient intelligence and is connected to the Internet of Things (IoT).

Explain why Southend Council may have concerns about introducing Pepper for this purpose.

Outline two reasons why there needs to be a balance between expressivity and usability on the semantic web.

Identify two features of ambient intelligence.

Evaluate the role of collective intelligence in the advancement of human knowledge.

Outline what would be necessary to make the above unnormalized table conform to 1st Normal Form (1NF).