Data base management for sedimentary depositional systems: expert system approach
Glenn S. Visher, P. Sütterlin · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1989
A realistic goal of sedimentologists is to be able to determine the depositional origin for stratigraphic sequences. Detailed analysis of Holocene depositional processes has provided the observational base for inferring the depositional origin for ancient stratigraphic units. Single response criteria do not exist to uniquely identify a depositional system. The synthesis of many hundreds of response characteristics require the organization of a data base that can be readily accessed for comparison. Artificial intelligence - specifically, expert systems - is structured so that relative importance and percentage confidence can be incorporated into the data base. The user can interact with response patterns most commonly associated with each depositional system to determine the likelihood of a specific interpretation.