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From: ijd@otter.hple.hp.com (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: gardening systems
Message-ID: <2070018@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 28 Jun 88 09:13:38 GMT
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> / otter:comp.ai / parvis@pyr.gatech.EDU (FULLNAME) /  3:51 pm  Jun 27, 1988 /
> I know there are many knowledge based systems
> for many different domains. Does anyone know a similar application for 
> gardening?

I don't know about gardening, but there was a project over here about three
years ago in the domain of crop disease diagnosis, which might give you some
useful pointers.   It was a collaboration between ICI (Imperial Chemical
Industries, who make grungy chemicals for killing bugs)  and a small (then,
at least) software house called, I think, ISI.  ISI produced a fairly
standard es-shell for the project called _Savoir_.  [If you think this is a
long prelude, you're right - I can't remember the name of the project :-(  ]

There was a paper on it at one of the _Expert Systems '8n_ conferences held
by the BCS  (where member( n, [5, 6, 7] ))

Apologies for the fallible memory...
  
> I appreciate any response and discussion on this question. Thanks, Parvis.
You are welcome - sorry it's a rather broad-band response.

Ian.


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