Application of the GOSSYM/COMAX system to cotton crop management

Abstract The GOSSYM/COMAX model-based-reasoning system, a decision aid for cotton crop management, has been extensively tested over the last five years on commercial and research farms across the Cotton Belt in the southern United States. This paper gives a brief description of the cotton crop model GOSSYM and the companion expert system COMAX, reports the results of these extensive field tests, and gives projections for future enhancements of the system.