A generic decision-making design environment to enable end users in rural industries to develop expert systems

最终用户开发的成功决策支持系统是有限的：我们提出的方法提高了这种能力。使用行业知识的自然表示，该项目将指定一个通用的设计环境，行业最终用户可以在其中开发相关的决策支持系统。它扩展了专家系统技术，以克服已知的限制，增加上下文和相关性，并鼓励用户吸收。关键的行业利益相关者将选择相关的问题来确定决策类别，从而导致通用设计环境的规范。这有望提高最近解除对乳制品行业管制的奶农的决策质量；设计环境将被转移到其他农村工业。

Successful decision support systems developed by end-users has been limited: our proposed approach advances this capability. Using natural representations of industry knowledge, this project will specify a generic design environment in which industry end-users can develop relevant decision support systems. It extends expert systems technologies to overcome known limitations, increasing context and relevance and encouraging user uptake. Key industry stakeholders will select relevant problems to identify decision categories, leading to specification of the generic design environment. This promises improved decision quality for dairy farmers in the recently deregulated dairy industry; the design environment will be transferable to other rural industries.