Software Tools for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment

PI建议采用人工智能计算机编程进行微化石鉴定。该程序将包括“专家”输入的微化石鉴定标准，这些标准将被计算机软件用来向用户提问，以帮助分类鉴定。然后，该软件将在数据库中搜索已识别的化石组合，并根据先前专家的输入和计算机先前获得的结果，为正在研究的样本分配一个年龄。数据库和人工智能软件将通过后续软件的使用不断更新。这是该PI将人工智能编程的进步应用于微化石研究的首次努力。结果将允许不同用户（其中一些可能是非专家）对微化石进行一致的识别。

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).