POMI: An Expert System for Integrated Pest Management of Apple Orchards
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This paper describes an Expert System for apple orchard integrated control. The system consists of two parts. In the rst one, help to the agricultural producer is provided in classifying the producer observations. In the second part an interactive abductive module suggests explanations of those observations. Classi cation has been implemented with the aid of discrimination net techniques. The abductive module exploits results from the parsimonious covering theory by Peng and Reggia. The system has been implemented in KEE with an extensive use of the graphical tools provided by the language. In a future work it will be extended with a module responsible for treatment suggestion.
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