Abstract
In the last four years there has been considerable interest among agriculture researchers in the concept of expert systems. Although initial enthusiasm was high and many projects were initiated the number of fielded agricultural expert systems remains low. This paper reviews some of the systems that have demonstrated their viability and considers their shared characteristics. The pattern among these viable expert systems involves careful attention to well defined objectives, especially in regard to each project's requirement for knowledge acquisition. The primarily heuristic expert systems focus on very narrow domains, as do the real-time expert controls projects. Other systems leverage the value of their heuristic knowledge by providing increased access to existing models and/or databases. In general the projects reviewed leave little doubt that expert systems concepts can be successfully used to expand the capabilities of specific agricultural software applications.
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