Abstract :
The design of a visual identification expert system (VIDES) that uses a visual approach to help identify microfossils down to the species level is discussed. VIDES combines a graphical expert-system shell with a set of knowledge bases to help identify microfossils, reducing the time and cost associated with petroleum exploration. VIDES´s initial knowledge-acquisition procedure, automated knowledge acquisition, textual and visual knowledge representation, automatic knowledge-base generation, inference mechanism and graphical interface are described.<>
Keywords :
computer graphics; expert systems; geophysical prospecting; geophysics computing; knowledge acquisition; knowledge representation; VIDES; automated knowledge acquisition; automatic knowledge-base generation; graphical expert-system shell; graphical interface; inference mechanism; knowledge bases; knowledge-acquisition procedure; microfossils; petroleum exploration; species level; visual approach; visual identification expert system; visual knowledge representation; Blades; Costs; Expert systems; Image processing; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge engineering; Large-scale systems; Petroleum; Sun; User interfaces;
