New technologies for constructing complex agricultural and environment systems

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Papajorgji, Petraq J., Pinet, Francois, 1973-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Information services.; Environmental sciences > Information services.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Data warehousing.; Agricultural production; Decision support systems; Eco-technologies; Embedded sensor and mobile database; Geographic information systems; Global climate change; Precision farming; Simulation and optimization of agricultural systems; Soil, air and water quality models; Water management
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"This book presents high quality research on the design and implementation of information systems in the fields of agronomics, mathematics, economics, computer science, and the environment, offering holistic approaches to the design, development, and implementation of complex agricultural and e...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A multidimensional model for data warehouses of simulation results / Hadj Mahboubi ... [et al.]
• 2. SimExplorer: programming experimental designs on models and managing quality of modelling process / Florent Chuffart ... [et al.]
• 3. A web-based tool for spatio-multidimensional analysis of geographic and complex data / Sandro Bimonte
• 4. A Systematic approach for managing the risk related to semantic interoperability between geospatial datacubes / Tarek Sboui, Mehrdad Salehi, and Yvan Bédard
• 5. Using ontologies to relate resource management actions to environmental monitoring data in South East Queensland / Jane Hunter ... [et al.]
• 6. A conceptual model of grassland-based beef systems / Guillaume Martin ... [et al.]
• 7. An ontology-based framework for authoring tools in the domain of sustainable energy education / Sotirios Karetsos, Dias Haralampopoulos, and Konstantinos Kotis
• 8. Application of support vector machines to melissopalynological data for honey classification / Giovanna Aronne, Veronica De Micco, and Mario R. Guarracino
• 9. Urban versus rural: the decrease of agricultural areas and the development of urban zones analyzed with spatial statistics / Beniamino Murgante and Maria Danese
• 10. Coupling geographic information system (GIS) and multi-criteria analysis (MCA) for modelling the ecological continuum in participative territorial planning / Mireille Batton-Hubert ... [et al.]
• 11. Spatial pattern mining for soil erosion characterization / Nazha Selmaoui-Folcher ... [et al.]
• 12. Describing spatio-temporal phenomena for environmental system development: an overview of today's needs and solutions / André Miralles, François Pinet, and Yvan Bédard
• 13. Using Soclab for a rigorous assessment of the social feasibility of agricultural policies / Françoise Adreit ... [et al.]
• 14. Pyroxene: a territorial decision support system based on spatial simulators integration for forest fire risk management / Eric Maillé and Bernard Espinasse
• 15. On the use of abduction as an alternative to decision trees in environmental decision support systems / Franz Wotawa
• 16. Modeling: a central activity for flexible information systems development in agriculture and environment / P. Papajorgji ... [et al.]
• 17. Data mining techniques in agricultural and environmental sciences / Altannar Chinchuluun ... [et al.]
• 18. The role of crop systems simulation in agriculture and environment / K. J. Boote ... [et al.].