Prioritizing the Construction of Short-Road Links Using a Knowledge-Based Decision-Support System.
Hussam Mohamed Soliman Ramadan, Yousry I. Taha · Computers and Their Applications · 2010
Prioritizing the execution of short-road links is an essential and critical task because it tries to accommodate a huge number of links-execution requests within a bounded budget. The factors affecting the prioritizations are not simple and may or may not be quantitative. The experience needed for solving this problem can be extracted from the experts and can be used in building an expert system to support the decision making process. This work is targeted to finding out a general model based on expert system technology [1] to support the process of prioritizing the execution of shortroad links. The previous studies in this field are surveyed and discussed [2,3,4]. A novel model is proposed to capture all factors affecting the process and the methods used in solving the problem. A complete design for an expert system based on the proposed mode is introduced and discussed. The proposed model is implemented and tested to verify its correctness.