Decision support systems in agriculture, food and the environment trends, applications and advances /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Manos, Basil, 1950-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2010.
• Subjects: 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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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 i...

Table of Contents:

• 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-Sánchez, Juan Torres-Rojo
• 5. DSS in pig production systems / Lluís Plà-Aragonés
• 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 Möckel, Tino Glässer, André 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 / José Gómez-Limón, Laura Riesgo
• 12. GrapeMilDeWS / Bertrand Léger, Olivier Naud, Véronique Bellon-Maurel, Michel Clerjeau, Laurent Delière, 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 Surový, António Pinheiro
• 21. A Web-based spatial DSS for estimating biomass-to-energy supply in Thessaly / Stelios Rozakis.