Advances in Modeling Agricultural Systems

 

Introduction.- Business Modelling of Networked Supply Chain Systems in Agriculture.- Modelling External Information Needs of Agri-Food Business Networks.- Rural Development Through Input-Output Modelling.- Web Services, a Renewal of Decision Support Systems in Agricultural?- Modelling Traceability Information and Data in the Agri-Food Chain.- The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Approach: A Framework for Developing Complex Agricultural Systems.- An MDA Approach to Crop Simulation Models.- Mechanistic Virtual Modelling: Coupling a Plant Simulation Model with a Three-Dimensional Simulation Engine.- Spatial Constraint Modelling with a GIS Extension of UML and OCL: Application to Agricultural Information Systems.- Describing Spatio-Temporal Phenomena for System Development: An Overview of Today's Needs and Solutions.- A New Methodology to Automate the Transformation of GIS Models in an Iterative Development Process.- Application of Model Transformation Paradigm in Agriculture: A Simple Farm System Case Study.- Enterprise Modelling Methods Applied to Farm Information Requirements: A Case Study for Methods IDEF0, GRAI, and AMS.- Constraints Modeling in Agricultural Databases.- The Use of UML as a Tool for the Formalisation of Standards and the Design of Ontologies in Agriculture.- Modelling in Nutrient Sensing for Agricultural and Environmental Applications.- Wireless Sensor Networks for Agriculture.- Modelling Agricultural Decision Support Systems in Distributed Environments.- Modelling and Device Development for Chlorophyll Estimation in Vegetation.- References.- Index.