R. Bras. Zootec.01/Jul/2009;38(special issue):390-6.
Artificial intelligence in Animal Science
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982009001300038
Biological systems are surprising flexible in processing information in the real world. Some biological organisms have a central unit processing named brain. The human’s brain, consisting of 1011 neurons, realizes intelligent information processing based on exact and commonsense reasoning. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been trying to implement biological intelligence in computers in various ways, but is still far from real one. Therefore, there are approaches like Symbolic AI, Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy system that partially successful in implementing heuristic from biological intelligence. Many recent applications of these approaches show an increased interest in animal science research. The main goal of this article is to explain the principles of heuristic problem-solving approach and to demonstrate how they can be applied to building knowledge-based systems for animal science problem solving.