Case Study: University of Wyoming helps ranchers manage grasshopper infestations with Franz Inc.'s Allegro CL

University of Wyoming - Customer Case Study

The University of Wyoming’s Applied AI Lab needed a better way to help ranchers respond to grasshopper infestations with expert, practical guidance. Working with Franz Inc., the team used Allegro CL for Windows to build CARMA, a case-based advisory system that could capture and apply the knowledge of experienced entomologists and pest managers.

Franz Inc. helped deliver a PC-based application with an intuitive interface, GIS maps, species images, and symbolic reasoning capabilities. CARMA combines case-based, rule-based, and model-based reasoning to recommend economically and environmentally sound responses, and it was funded by public grants and deployed free of charge in every county across Wyoming.

University of Wyoming

Karl Branting

Associate Professor