Abstract:
The proper selection of suitable Industrial Estate Sites is of great importance, in
the development of Industrial Estate Sites. A systematic methodology called
“Systematic Procedure in the Selection of Industrial Estate Sites” (SPSIE), which
could be used for this purpose, has been developed by a multi-disciplinary team of
environmental specialists and engineers. A computer based Expert System called
IESE was later developed based on the above methodology.
IESE was developed using an Object Oriented Approach in Delphi, a Visual
Programming Language within a short time-frame. IESE is a special purpose
Expert System. IESE’s Inference Engine can evaluate a specified set of rules, and
it includes a trace facility, an external Knowledgebase, external Screen Layouts,
and a built in backtracking facility to handle exceptions.
Although IESE was originally developed as a tool for the evaluation of suitable
Industrial Estate Sites, it has been found that this could be used as a tool for
preliminary evaluation of projects preceding a full scale ELA analysis.
