OSCECIS: Outdoor Smog Chamber Experimental Conditions Information System
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- February 28, 2019
- Creator
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Pua, Kah-Eng
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Abstract
- The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed description of a database management system that operates on an IBM PC, and was designed to help modelers choose appropriate smog chamber runs for mechanism testings. In addition, this report describes the outlines for a prospective expert system. This report covers: • a brief discussion of model developing and testing; • reasons for choosing Turbo Prolog as the implementing language for the system; • a detailed description of the database fields and underlying organizing principles; • an overview of the data set; • a brief introduction to the structure of Turbo Prolog; • an overall structure of the database management system; • an introduction to the hierarchical structure of predicates in the system; • detailed explanations of selected predicates defined in the source program. • a discussion of the long-term goal of this project involving the incorporation of the database management system into an expert system capable of: a) choosing appropriate runs to test the mechanisms; b) carrying out automatic model evaluations by making inferences from the sets of testing results; c) explaining the rules it used in the process of model evaluations at different levels of details; d) acquiring new knowledge from the domain expert through an intelligent editor. A user's guide to the database management system, a hierarchy of predicates defined in the system, the source codes, and a sample output will also be provided in the appendices.
- Date of publication
- May 1987
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- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Flynn, Michael
- Jeffries, Harvey E.
- Miller, Cass T.
- Degree
- Master of Science in Public Health
- Academic concentration
- Industrial Hygiene
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 1987
- Language
- Deposit record
- 4229e0fb-b010-4ede-aa50-9d4a2f0726fb
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