NED-2: An agent-based decision support system for forest ecosystem management

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 831-843

  Nute, Donald ^a   Potter, Walter D ^a   Maier, Frederick ^a   Wang, Jin ^a   Twery, Mark ^b   Rauscher, H Michael ^b   Knopp, Peter ^b   Thomasma, Scott ^b   Dass, Mayukh ^a   Uchiyama, Hajime ^a   Glende, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackboard architecture; Decision support system; Ecosystem management; Knowledge based system; Model management; Prolog

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

SILVICULTURE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GIS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 2642518939     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2003.03.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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