Soft computing technique of fuzzy cognitive maps to connect yield defining parameters with yield in cotton crop production in central Greece as a basis for a decision support system for precision agriculture application

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 247, Issue , 2010, Pages 325-362

  Papageorgiou, E I ^a   Markinos, A T ^b   Gemtos, T A ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

cotton; decision making; Fuzzy cognitive maps; fuzzy sets; knowledge representation; modeling; yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956497700     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03220-2_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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