Towards automated compliance checking based on a formal representation of agricultural production standards

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-37

  Nash, Edward ^a   Wiebensohn, Jens ^a   Nikkilä, Raimo ^b   Vatsanidou, Anna ^c,d   Fountas, Spyros ^c,d   Bill, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d Center for Research and Technology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support; Knowledge management; Metadata; Ontology language; Rules

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CHECK POINTS; COMMON STANDARDS; COMPLIANCE CHECKING; DECISION SUPPORTS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT; EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE; FORMAL REPRESENTATIONS; GENERAL MODEL; LEGAL REGULATION; ONTOLOGY LANGUAGE; PRODUCTION STANDARDS; RULES;

AGRICULTURE; AUTOMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; METADATA; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STANDARDS; WORD PROCESSING;

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOMATION; COMPLIANCE; DATA SET; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FARMING SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; META-ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGULATORY APPROACH; STANDARD (REGULATION);

EUROPE;

EID: 79960928011     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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