An expert system for bull-cow mating in dairy farms

Abstract

This paper introduces an expert system named BUCOMEX (Bull-Cow Mating Expert System), of which purpose is to propose some candidate bull breeds for a cow to give birth to calves who might have improved properties in the point of eugenics. In addition, it presents an expert system shell called FOPS5 which has been employed in the implementation of BUCOMEX to effectively represent and process the fuzziness and uncertainty of the bull-cow mating knowledge. The developed expert system has shown promising results in bull-cow mating works.