P-Expert: Integrated Expert Advisory System for Control and Management of Parthenium Weed Infestation

摘要

This paper discusses the problem of parthenium weed infestation in Queensland, Australia and describes P-Expert, an expert advisory system designed to provide expert knowledge in control and management strategies of parthenium weed. P-Expert is fundamentally a hybrid fuzzy expert system incorporating technologies from fuzzy logic, relational database and multimedia systems. The primary topic of this paper will be a description of the framework of P-Expert and its overall infrastructure, focusing on five main areas: (1) Layered component architecture, (2) Discourse semantics (Explanatory capabilities, (3) Meta-consequent fuzzy functions, (4) Fuzzy forecasting of weed infestation, and (5) Deployment of large scale expert advisory system.