Software Tools for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment

PI建议采用人工智能计算机编程来识别微化石。该程序将包括微化石鉴定标准的“专家”输入，计算机软件将使用这些标准向用户提出问题，以帮助进行分类鉴定。然后，该软件将在数据库中搜索确定的化石组合，并根据之前的专家输入和计算机获得的先前结果为正在研究的样本分配年龄。数据库和人工智能软件将在以后使用该软件时不断更新。这是此次PI将人工智能编程的进展应用于微化石研究的初步努力。这一结果将使不同用户(其中一些人可能是非专家)能够一致地识别微化石。

The PI proposes to adopt artificial intelligence computer programming for identification of microfossils. The program will consist of "expert" input of microfossil identification criteria which will be used by the computer software to ask questions of the user to aid in taxonomic identification. The software will then search a data base for the fossil assemblage identified and assign an age to the sample under study based on previous expert input and previous results obtained by the computer. The data base and the artificial intelligence software will continually be updated by subsequent uses of the software. This is an initial effort by this PI to apply the advances of artificial intelligence programming to the study of microfossils. The results would allow consistent identification of microfossils by different users (some of which could be non-experts).