Expert systems identify fossils and manage large paleontological databases

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1988 · Geobyte; (United States)

OSTI ID:5862463

Beightol, D S ^[1]; Conrad, M A

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1. Integrated Decision Systems, Geneva (Switzerland)

EXPAL is a computer program permitting creation and maintenance of comprehensive databases in marine paleontology. It is designed to assist specialists and non-specialists. EXPAL includes a powerful expert system based on the morphological descriptors specific to a given group of fossils. The expert system may be used, for example, to describe and automatically identify an unknown specimen. EXPAL was first applied to Dasycladales (Calcareous green algae). Projects are under way for corresponding expert systems and databases on planktonic foraminifers and calpionellids. EXPAL runs on an IBM XT or compatible microcomputer.

• OSTI ID: 5862463
• Journal Information: Geobyte; (United States), Vol. 3:1; ISSN 0885-6362
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FOSSILS
CLASSIFICATION
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
MORPHOLOGY
PALEONTOLOGY
EXPERT SYSTEMS
ALGAE
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERS
FORAMINIFERA
GEOLOGY
PROGRAMMING
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
ANIMALS
INVERTEBRATES
MANAGEMENT
MICROORGANISMS
PLANTS
PROTOZOA
ROCKS
SARCODINA
580000* - Geosciences
990300 - Information Handling