Expert systems: Useful tools for enhancing agricultural research and production
2002
El-Sebae Ahmed, S. (ICARDA, Aleppo (Syria)) | Rafae, A. | Shaalan, K. (Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLASE), Cairo (Egypt))
An expert system is a computer program that simulates a human expert in solving a problem in a narrow domain area. Computer expert systems have been used in agriculture since the early 1980s. Several systems have been developed in the United States and Europe for plant-disorder diagnosis, to assess production practices, technologies, and other aspects of farming. In Egypt, the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES) of the Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, has the mandate to identify and develop expert systems and train researchers, extension specialists, and growers in their use, including maintenance and updating. CLAES has developed and deployed several plant and animal agricultural expert systems
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