Planning expert system (part 4 of 4)

Despite this being a planning blog two of the top four most popular posts are not really about planning. The expert system posts have picked up a long-term steady trickle of traffic, and I suspect this is because IS students all over the world are periodically set assignments on ‘expert systems’, and the first thing [...]

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Planning Expert System (part 3 of 4)

I had to set aside the technical component of the expert system for two reasons. One was the traditional pursuit of a nice time outdoors under canvas in the English “summer”, the other was the creation of the system content – the expertise. I hadn’t intended saying much about it, but if I’m ever in [...]

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Planning Expert System (part 2 of 4)

In part 1 of this series I described the project – to build an ‘expert system’ that would allow a user to answer a series of questions to establish whether or not they required a planning permission for their proposal. In this edition we’ll try to establish whether there is an ‘engine’ that can do [...]

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Planning Expert System (part 1 of 4)

Long before I joined PAS there was an e-gov project called PARSOL. It created several products that I can remember wrestling with. Some – like the e-planning service standards – I though were very useful. Others less so.

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