Abstract

Fishing has become a major threat to marine fishes. Effective conservation requires timely identification of vulnerable fish species. However, evaluation of extinction risk using conventional methods is difficult due to limitations in data that should be gathered about the fish species and required by such methods. This paper presents a fuzzy expert system that integrates life history and ecological characteristics of marine fishes to estimate their intrinsic vulnerability. There are lots of general and special purpose expert systems that help society in a life particular sector. So, a professional one is selected and adapted for helping in marine wealth preservation. Finally, the proposed fuzzy expert system is used as a decision support tool in fishery management and marine conservation planning.

References

• Terry Collins, "Human health, wealth require expanded marine science", EurOcean 2014 conference, In Rome Italy, 2014.
• Michael V. Voyloshnikov, "Evaluation of Commercial Vessels, Marine Company’s Assetsand Ocean Resources", Reviewers: Eugeny A.Gnezdilov, Ph.D., Honorable economist of the Russian Federation Valeria V.Krivets (Goncharova), Ph.D., Certificated appraiser of RSA.
• AN. Subramanian, "Introduction : Marine Environment", Centre for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Japan.
• Hedgepeth, J., "Classification of marine environments and concepts of marine ecology", In: Hedgepeth, J.E. (Ed.), The treatise on marine ecology and paeoecology. Vol. 1, Ecology. Memoir No. 67 of the Geological society of America, New York,1957.
• Jesse H. Ausubel., " Wealth from the Oceans Use, Stewardship, and Security", Keynote Address, 8th Future of the Ocean Symposium Urban Coast Institute, Monmouth University, 26 October 2012.
• Enda Kenny, T.D., Simon Coveney, T.D., "Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth", An Integrated Marine Plan for Ireland Roadmap, New Ways, New Approaches, New Thinking, 2012.
• Sarhan, A. M., W. F. Abd El-Wahed, T. E. Danf, and M. M. Tokhy; “ Developing a Rule Extraction Methodology for Expert System Based Artificial Neural Network Ensembles” Fourth International Conference on Informatics and Systems INFOS2006, 25- 27 March 2006.
• Moawad, I. F., S. Gamalel-Din, M. Zaki, and A. Rafea, “ Converting Traditional Diagnostic Expert System Into Negotiating Agent ” Fourth International Conference on Informatics and Systems INFOS2006, 25- 27 March 2006.
• Khumukcham R., Shikhar Kr. S, "JESS Based Expert System Architecture for Diagnosis of Rice Plant Diseases: Design and Prototype Development", 2013 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modeling and Simulation, P 674-676, 2013.
• Tanimoto, S. L. , " The Elements of Artificial Intelligence " , Computer Science Press. , 1990.
• Schnupp, P.H.; "Building Expert System in Prolog ", Amiz, 2000.
• George F. Luger and William, A. Stubblefield; " Artificial Intelligence and the Design of Expert Systems", The Benjamin/ Cummings publishing Co., Inc., 1989.
• Keith D., "The Essence of Expert Systems", Prentice Hall, 2000.
• C. Guanrong, and P. Trung, "Introduction to Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Control Systems", ISBN 0-8493-1658-8, 2001 by CRC Press LLC.
• Byrd, T., Cossick, K. &Zmud, R.,"A Synthesis of Research onRequirements Analysis and Knowledge Acquisition Techniques", MISQuarterly, 16(1), 117-138, 1992.
• Awad, E. & Lindgren Jr, J., " Skills and Personality Attributes ofthe Knowledge Engineer: an Empirical Study", International Associationof Knowledge Engineers ’92 Proceedings, 1992.
• Qi Ming Cui, Sheng Wei Liu, Rong Xing Liu, and ZhiRai Wang, "Application Research of the Production System type Expert System Shell Pro/3 under Smart Grid", IEEE PES ISGT ASIA 2012.
• Giarranto J. C., "CLIPS User’s Guide", Version 6.22, 1998.
• Da-peng Tan, Shi-ming JiShu-ting Chen, "Continuous Casting Slag Detection Expert System Based on CLIPS", 2010 Ninth International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science, IEEE, 2010.
• Giarratano, Joseph. Riley, Gary., "Expert Systems Principles and Programming", International Thompson Publishing. 3rd Edition, 1994.