Design of Expert System Diagnosis of Catfish Disease with Forward Chaining Method

Abstract

The expert system can be used as a means for consulting and assisting experts and catfish breeders who are
experiencing problems in identifying catfish diseases and their solutions. So that this expert system can be accessed
easily by anyone and anywhere connected to the internet network, this expert system is made web-based. The MySQL
database used in this system will store facts that were built using the PHP programming language. Likewise, system
development is only limited to diagnosing catfish diseases. The output of this system is in the form of disease
information in catfish and how to handle it. The form of research used by the author is a literature study and is applied
to experimental research. The software development method used by the author is to use the Forward Chaining method
which consists of rules. The results of the research that have been made, it is found that this website and expert system
make it easy for ordinary people or beginners to cultivate catfish in order to produce healthy and superior catfish.