ABSTRACT
Although this discipline has, over the last few years, lost a little of the euphoria which still surrounded it in the mid-1980s, a promising instrument results from it - expert system technology - which is able to provide constructive and innovative concepts for complex inter-connected problems such as must be methodically solved by regional science. The proposed solutions from expert systems can gradually compete with those o f human
experts, at least within certain limited areas of knowledge. Such systems possess a database relating to a certain specialist area, a basis o f knowledge consisting of coded rules which draws conclusions, and a fast deduction mechanism which systematically applies the rules to the current problem, for example, ecological land development.
