Diagnosis Specialist System for managing Palm Oil Plantation Problems

The project that was developed is a computerize system that will be able to diagnose problems happened to palm oil tree. Generally, there is two main problem that always happened to palm oil tree; disease and pest. This system developed to store the knowledge in the related field into a knowledge base to help the newcomer in this field to make a decision to settle the problem faced. To solve this problem, data driven search technique applied to search for the symptom stored in the knowledge base. The system developed using expert system concept. Based on this concept, a knowledge base was built to store all the knowledge compiled. Inference engine used to search the knowledge in the knowledge base. The knowledge based was stored in MySQL database and the inference engine was developed using PHP language.