Abstraction & Representation Of Knowledge For Complex Tasks

In real world, many application areas involve rather complex problems or tasks, such as oil exploration. In developing an expert model for such kind of problem domains, abstracting and representing domain knowledge in a multilevel framework is one of efficient ways of structuring knowledge base for the systems For the last few years, we have been trying to apply Al methods, particularly expert System method to oil exploration. In this paper we will introduce SDIES, an Expert System for seismic Data Interprctation in oil exploration, with emphasis on abstraction and representation of domain knowledge.