An engineering approach to modelling, decision support and control for sustainable systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1491, 2008, Pages 527-541

  Day, W ^a   Audsley, E ^a,b   Frost, A R ^a  

^a SILSOE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Engineering; Modelling; Process control; Sensors; Systems models

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENGINEERING; LAND USE; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROFITABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 40949123143     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2168     Document Type: Review

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