EEIE: an expert system for environmental impact evaluation

Abstract

The environment has a very important role in public health (i.e: cardiovascular pathology, discomfort, ...). Doing and appropiate Environmental Impact Evaluation of man actions will help to preserve public health of possible harmfull effects of these actions. Environmental Impact Evaluation using Leopold and Battelle methods. has been implemented in the EEIE expert system. It's an efficient system to suggest, characterize and evaluate hypothesis associated with environmental impact. These hypothesis are stablished in order to link project actions with environmental factors, as well as to determine the involucrate corrective actions. The set of hypothesis obtained is grouped together one obtained by a back propagation artificial neural network (ANN) and then EEIE evaluate every hypothesis. Therefore, EEIE presented here generalize expert knowledge of the environmental impact domain.