Environmental Applications of Expert System Technology

Environmental Informatics Towards a new Discipline in Applied Computer Science for Environmental Protection and Research

“…Expert systems have been developed for decision support or planning applications in the following environmental domains (Page 1990;Simon 1995 However, most of these projects have not yet advanced beyond the prototype state. The utilization of expert system technology in the environmental domain has been limited todate, because • the spatial and temporal reference of most environmental problems require substancial advances in spatial and temporal reasoning methods, the realtime capability of expert systems is not sufficient yet for many environmental monitoring and environmentally adapted process control applications, • the integration of expert system techniques with conventional system components (i.e.…”