An engineering approach to modelling, decision support and control for sustainable systems
| Autor: | A.R Frost, W Day, E Audsley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Decision support system
Decision engineering Process (engineering) Decision Making Evidential reasoning approach Intelligent decision support system Agriculture Models Theoretical General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology R-CAST Decision Support Techniques Engineering Risk analysis (engineering) Business decision mapping Systems engineering Environment Design General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Mathematics Research Article Decision analysis |
| Zdroj: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 363:527-541 |
| ISSN: | 1471-2970 0962-8436 |
| Popis: | Engineering research and development contributes to the advance of sustainable agriculture both through innovative methods to manage and control processes, and through quantitative understanding of the operation of practical agricultural systems using decision models. This paper describes how an engineering approach, drawing on mathematical models of systems and processes, contributes new methods that support decision making at all levels from strategy and planning to tactics and real-time control. The ability to describe the system or process by a simple and robust mathematical model is critical, and the outputs range from guidance to policy makers on strategic decisions relating to land use, through intelligent decision support to farmers and on to real-time engineering control of specific processes. Precision in decision making leads to decreased use of inputs, less environmental emissions and enhanced profitability—all essential to sustainable systems. |
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