Experimenting statecharts for multiple experts knowledge elicitation in agriculture

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 11296-11303

  Léger, Bertrand ^a,b   Naud, Olivier ^a  

^a UMR ITAP   (France)

^b BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crop protection; Decision support systems; Discrete event systems; Expert systems; Knowledge acquisition; Statecharts; Viticulture; Workflow modelling

Indexed keywords

CROP PROTECTION; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; STATECHARTS; VITICULTURE; WORKFLOW MODELLING;

CROPS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 67349206090     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.03.052     Document Type: Article

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