AN EXPERTISE MODEL FOR THERAPY PLANNING USING ABDUCTIVE REASONING

Generic reasoning models facilitate the construction of knowledge-based systems for solving complex problems, such as therapy planning in an agricultural context. The basic features of these models are problem-solving methods, which are proposed to carry out the tasks ordinarily done by experts in solving a specific problem. This article describes an expertise model in the domain of plant health, which was obtained applying the CommonKADS methodology. The most important result is the abductive method proposed for supplying a solution to treatment problems in domains where there is no protocol for therapy planning tasks. The description of the method is based on the algebraic formulation of a domain-independent general treatment. Therefore, the abductive method proposed is sufficiently generalized to be applied to different domains.