Producers, decision support systems, and GPFARM: Lessons learned from a decade of development

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 170-176

  Ascough II, J C ^a   Dunn, G H ^a   McMaster, G S ^a   Ahuja, L R ^a   Andales, A A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural management; DSS; GPFARM; Producers; Software adoption

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES; ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS TOOLS; BROAD SPECTRUM; COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITIES; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER FOCUS; DATABASE GENERATION; DATABASE INFORMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DSS; ECONOMIC PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENERAL PURPOSE; GPFARM; MICROSOFT; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; OBJECT MODELING; OBJECTORIENTED MODELING; OVERALL QUALITY; POTENTIAL USERS; PRODUCERS; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION MODEL; SITE-SPECIFIC; SYSTEMS MODELING APPROACH; SYSTEMS RESEARCH; USER GROUPS; USER REQUIREMENTS; VISUALIZATION MODULES; WATER BALANCE; WEB BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TABLES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 71649087346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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