Decision support systems in agriculture, food and the environment [electronic resource] : trends, applications and advances / Basil Manos ... [et al.], editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2010.Description: electronic texts (xxii, 530 p. : ill., maps) : digital filesISBN:- 9781615208821 (PDF)
- Agriculture -- Decision making
- Agriculture -- Data processing
- Agriculture -- Management -- Information technology
- Agricultural informatics
- Decision support systems
- Water resources assessment and management
- Sustainable forest and rangeland management
- Dairy farming
- Field performance prediction
- Ecosystem reconstruction and management
- Irrigation management
- Sustainable land use
- Simulation of agricultural and environmental systems
- Livestock systems
- Fisheries management
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- S494.5.D3 D39 2010e
- Also available in print.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-508) and index.
1. Decision support for river quality management / James Hamlett, C. Knight -- 2. A knowledge-based SDSS for medfly area-wide Control / Y. Cohen, A. Cohen, D. Broday -- 3. The role of decision support systems, (DSS) in planning for improved water quality in coastal lakes / R. Kelly, W. Merritt -- 4. Decision support systems for forest management In Mexico / Rafael Moreno-S�anchez, Juan Torres-Rojo -- 5. DSS in pig production systems / Llu�is Pl�a-Aragon�es -- 6. GI-technology / Anja Wijffels, Jos Van Orshoven, Bart Muys, Dirk Cattrysse -- 7. A participatory approach for analyzing and modeling decision processes / Kathrin Kirchner, Ivonne Erfurth, Sarah M�ockel, Tino Gl�asser, Andr�e Schmidt -- 8. Decision support system for greenhouse tomato yield prediction using artificial intelligence techniques / F. Zhang, D. Iliescu, E. Hines, M. Leeson, S. Adam -- 9. Evaluating the performance of decision making units in the food production industry / Emmanouil Stiakakis, Angelo Sifaleras -- 10. Validation of a model appropriateness framework using the Elbe decision support system / Yue-Ping Xu, Martijn Booij -- 11. A composite indicator to measure agricultural sustainability / Jos�e G�omez-Lim�on, Laura Riesgo -- 12. GrapeMilDeWS / Bertrand L�eger, Olivier Naud, V�eronique Bellon-Maurel, Michel Clerjeau, Laurent Deli�ere, Philippe Cartolaro, Lionel Delbac -- 13. Integrated production and information process modelling for decision support in quality management / R. Lehmann, R. Reiche, M. Fritz, G. Schiefer --
14. Assessing the efficiency and distribution of agricultural activities Using DSS / Helga Pereira, Luis Dias, Maria Alves -- 15. A Web and mobile system for environmental decision support / James Carswell, Keith Gardiner, Michela Bertolotto, Andrea Rizzini -- 16. MicroLEIS DSS / D. de la Rosa, M. Anaya-Romero -- 17. Conflict analysis using fuzzy decision support system / R. Giordano, G. Passarella -- 18. A decision support system for scheduling partial harvesting in aquaculture / Run Yu, PingSun Leung, Lotus Kam, Paul Bienfang -- 19. Environmental sensor networks and continuous data quality assurance to manage salinity within a highly regulated river basin / Nigel Quinn, Ricardo Ortega, Lisa Holm -- 20. Adaptive management on sustainability of cork oak woodlands / Nuno Ribeiro, Peter Surov�y, Ant�onio Pinheiro -- 21. A Web-based spatial DSS for estimating biomass-to-energy supply in Thessaly / Stelios Rozakis.
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This title presents the development of DSS for managing agricultural and environmental systems, focusing on the exposition of innovative methodologies, from web-mobile systems to artificial intelligence and knowledge-based DSS, as well as their applications in every aspect from harvest planning to international food production and land management. This book provides an in depth look into the growing importance of DSS in agriculture.
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