GEOMYCIN: towards a geographic expert system for resource management

Abstract

Expert systems are computer programs designed to assist decision makers by applying knowledge in the manner of a human expert to a limited class of problems. Although they are currently being employed in a variety of fields, there have been few reports of their application to problems of resource management, even though they appear to be well suited to such use. This paper described the first stage of the adaptation of the well-known expert system, EMYCIN, to spatial problem solving through the incorporation of geographically specific knowledge and geographic data files. The adapted system, GEOMYCIN, has been applied to fire behavior prediction in Kakadu National Park, Australia, and the paper concludes with an example of the spatial features drawn from this application. 39 references, 1 figure, 4 tables.

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