GEOTOX: a knowledge-based system for hazardous site evaluation

Development of a Decision Support System for Groundwater Pollution Assessment

“…Several expert systems have been developed to assist in assessment of a groundwater pollution situation. GEOTOX (Wilson et al, 1987) is a rule-based knowledge system for Identification and ranking of waste disposal sites. The factors used in GEOTOX for the assessment of site characteristics are divided into three groups: Permanent Hazard includes factors which describe the hydrogeological/soil conditions (environmental setting) of the site and possible pathways of contamination; Local Hazard describes a contaminant, while Global Hazard includes possible targets or receptors of contamination.…”

“…GEOTOX (Wilson et al, 1987;Mikroudis, 1988) is software developed for hazardous site evaluation. The encapsulated methodology considers four groups of factors: contaminant or waste characteristics, waste management practice, pathways and targets or receptors.…”

Expert systems for environmental problems

“…on two test scenarios. Further development is being done, including the addition of computer graphics capabilities (3,4).…”