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XLAYER: An Expert System Providing Management Advice to Commercial Layer Managers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

Ed Schmisseur  and
John Pankratz
Ed Schmisseur
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University
John Pankratz
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University
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Abstract

XLAYER, an expert/knowledge-based microcomputer program, was designed and developed to diagnose layer management problems and recommend expert remedial management advice. The program also provokes management action by calculating the economic loss attributed to major management problems. It analyzes data generated by a commercially marketed layer performance financial microcomputer program and has demonstrated the ability to emulate poultry management experts in the diagnoses of 80 individual layer management problems. The program provides scarce expert poultry management advice to poultry layer managers regardless of size and scale of operation.

Keywords

expert systemknowledge-based systemrule-basedeconomic losslayer management

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 1989 , pp. 183 - 193
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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