End users as expert system developers?
Journal of End User Computing
Applications development by end-users: can quality be improved?
Decision Support Systems
A national knowledge-based crop recognition in mediterranean environment
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A CBR System for Knowing the Relationship between Flexibility and Operations Strategy
ISMIS '09 Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems
A fuzzy expert system for business management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
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Expert systems (ES) development technology has been used to build rural business applications in the past but these have usually been developed using traditional expert systems shells. This paper introduces a new architecture for the development of a design environment where the domain experts can build a knowledge base for target-specific ES for rural business operators. The system allows rural business operators to use their own knowledge in building their own, target-specific ES for tailored development to their own specific requirements. At this stage, this reusable design environment caters for the Australian dairy industry but in the long run we claim it will be useful for the other livestock based rural industries such as beef cattle and sheep. This approach of developing target-specific ES contributes new knowledge in that it provides a new way of developing decision support by allowing human domain experts to develop relevant ES for different livestock farming business. An evolutionary prototyping approach was employed for initial development of a proof of concept example and as a method of outlining the solution environment. Multiple qualitative data collection methods were engaged to facilitate knowledge acquisition in the domain of milk protein enhancement for dairy operations. This paper also describes the generic development procedure used in this project.