MOBILE-BASED EXPERT RELIANT SYSTEM OF APPLICATION DETERMINING THE ADEQUACY OF COWS FOR ISLAMIC QURBAN RITUAL USING METHOD OF FORWARD CHAINING

摘要

The most prevalent livestock used for qurban ritual on Islamic festival of Eid Al Adha is cow. There are a number of criteria must be adhered to before a livestock is deemed elligible for sacrificial slaughter. However, these requirements are often overlooked or ignored by the general public which derives from their inadequate understanding of these criteria. Also, the number of expert who are asked to examine the elligibility of livestocks and socialize the skills required to the public is limited. This study has designed and created a web based system of expert reliant application to determine the adequacy of livestock so as to help the laymen to determine the satisfactoriness of cows. Forward chaining the inference technic used in the research. The study was done in two stages namely the creation of knowledge basis and implementation stage. In the former stage extensive repository of information on the implementation of animal slaughtering is acquired from numerous scholars in their respective fields. These scholars who are consulted include (1) religious scholars; (2) veterinarians; and (3) animal science experts. The acquired information is arranged in the forms of rules that can be converted into a computer program. In the latter stage analysis on the need basis for application functionality, interface design, creating and testing of the application is conducted. The outcomes are arranged categorically which result in 90 rules that determine the adequacy of cows for sacrifice. The three main features revealed from this implementation of expert reliant system of application are: (1) examine the acceptableness of cows; (2) features designed for responses to inquiries; and (3) features designed for presentation of latest facts from inferences. Based on the unit test shown, this application is successful in performing inferences on the knowledge aspect based on the facts correctly entered by users. Moreover, based on the black box test conducted by using 10 different smartphones with various specifications, the test showed 100% success rate on the need basis in the ongoing application functionality. Considering the results demonstrated in the unit test and black box test it can be concluded that this application can be recommended to settle the issue assessing the adequacy of cows for Islamic qurban rituals.