Diagnosing animal disease quickly and accurately has the economic effectiveness. The expert system for animal disease diagnosing can meet the farms for urgent needs of veterinary experts, since there are very few experts at the farms (Wan and Bao, 2010). An expert system is a computer system that emulates the decision making ability of a human expert (Peter, 1998). The idea behind creating an expert system is that it is useful for many people from the knowledge of one person - the expert. Expert system simulates the judgment and behaviour of a human that has expert knowledge and experience in a particular field. It consists of the inbuilt facilities to write the rules that build the knowledge base.

Nowadays people are very conscious about their health as well as health of their animals. The owner of the cattle has to observed the daily routine of the animals and check for any changes in their routine or behaviour. Based on these observation, owners can decide that the animal is suffering from which disease and what treatment use for them. The owners of animals most of the time it is difficult to take any action against the observation observed by him or her. Animal owners take help of book or other experienced owner or veterinarian. It is very time consuming and costly job (Saurkar and Watane, 2012).

Most of the systems developed so far are based on Animal disease surveillance to improve the disease analysis, early warning and predicting disease emergence and spread (Patil et al., 2012). The expert system will be useful for the animal owners for healthcare of his/her animals and also for the veterinary doctors to take the advice from this system as it is expert and knowledge based system. The expert system is available to everyone and user can check only for the symptoms or signs observed in his/her animals and the disease name and treatment or control will be easily available to him/her.

References

Patil AB and Kulkarni RV (2012). A Review of expert systems in Animal health care. International Journal of computer Science and Information Technologies, 3: 5014-5018.

Saurkar AV and Watane HN (2012). An expert system for disease diagnosis in pet. Advances in Medical Informatics, 2: 18-21.

Wan and Bao W (2010). Animal disease diagnosis expert system based on SVM. Computer and Computing technologies in Agriculture III, 317, Springer, pp:539-545.