Expert Systems in Other Areas of Chemistry

Based on these principles, the Green Chemistry initiative supports basic research to provide the chemical tools and methods necessary to design and develop environmentally sound products and processes. The EPA funded a series of basic research projects that consider impacts to human health and the environment in the design of chemical syntheses and other areas of chemistry. One of the outcomes of these efforts is the Green Chemistry Expert System (GCES) [35]. 

Some Areas of Application. I next summarize some areas of application where expert systems exist or are being developed, usually by several laboratories. Some of these areas are covered in detail in other presentations as part of this symposium. I want to emphasize that this is a partial list primarily of scientific and engineering applications. A similar list could easily be generated for operations research, economics, law, and so forth. Some of the areas are outside strict definitions of the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering, but I have included them to illustrate the breadth of potential applications in related disciplines. 

As we have seen in the previous chapters, expert systems have been successfully applied to a wide variety of problems in research and industrial chemistry areas. Since many of these systems are applied in a laboratory environment, they have to coexist with a series of other software types in the laboratory. Several issues should be addressed ... 

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