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Forest Ecosystem Management via the NED Intelligent Information System

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Intelligent Problem Solving. Methodologies and Approaches (IEA/AIE 2000)

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We view an Intelligent Information System (IIS) as composed of a unified knowledge base, database, and model base. This allows an IIS to provide responses to user queries regardless of whether the query process involves a data retrieval, an inference, a computational method, a problem solving module, or some combination of these. The unified integration of these components in a distributed environment for forest ecosystem management is the focus of our continuing research.

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    W. D. Potter, X. Deng, S. Somasekar & S. Liu

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  1. The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Lousiana, 2 Rex Street, Lafayette, LA, 70504-4330, USA

    Rasiah Logananthara

  2. Department of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Oberer Eselsberg, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Günther Palm

  3. Department of Computer Science, Southwest Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX, 78666-4616, USA

    Moonis Ali

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Potter, W.D., Deng, X., Somasekar, S., Liu, S., Rauscher, H.M., Thomasma, S. (2000). Forest Ecosystem Management via the NED Intelligent Information System. In: Logananthara, R., Palm, G., Ali, M. (eds) Intelligent Problem Solving. Methodologies and Approaches. IEA/AIE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45049-1_76

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