Towards a Framework for Interactive Inter-disciplinary Expert Systems Development Environments

这个项目调查专家系统软件开发环境中只能用跨学科知识解决的问题。这项研究的重点是研究如何结合现有系统来解决新问题。这项研究的起点是PI之前在木瓜管理、土壤酸度和氮素分析专家系统方面的工作，该系统将多个专业领域集成到智能农业作物管理系统中。该项目的挑战是将农业、化学、金融和管理等不同领域纳入所选问题领域(木瓜和氮素管理系统)。这项工作预计将增加关于专家系统的知识，并增加将多学科协作的成果纳入系统开发的方法。

This project investigates expert system software development environments for problems that can only be solved with interdisciplinary knowledge. The research is focussed on studying ways to combine existing systems to solve new problems. The starting point for the research is the PI's previous work on expert systems for papaya management, soil acidity, and nitrogen analysis that integrated multiple domains of expertise into intelligent agricultural crop management systems. The challenge of the project is to include such divers domains as agricultural, chemical, financial and management aspects of the problem domains of choice (papaya and nitrogen management systems). The work is expected to increase knowledge about expert systems and also about ways to incorporate the results of multi-disciplinary collaborations into system developments.