Expert System Model for Identification Pests and Diseases of Forest Tree Plantations

Various pests and diseases which are a disturbance in a forest plantation widely reported by many practitioners and researchers in forest management. Therefore, pests and diseases management activities become a very important part in the management of forest plantation. As an important stages in forest management, identification and recognition by an expert should be done quickly and accurately, moreover the proper handling also become an important step. In research area of artificial intelligence, known expert system, it could be as an alternative solutions to be one of forest management tool. This research aims to propose an expert system model that used for several tree plantations. It model consists of an architecture of expert system, inference method, several alternative of certainty and uncertainty methods, knowledge base, and also view of Graphical User Interface (GUI) for user’s interactions. The important team in the expert system development, they are project manager, domain expert, knowledge engineer, programmer, system analyst, and endusers.