Application of Artificial Intelligence to Systematics: Systex-a Prototype Expert System for Species Identification

Systematic Zoology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 248-267

  Woolley, J B ^a   Stone, N D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2413065     Document Type: Article

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