A heuristic optimization algorithm for adaptive wireless sensor network design and energy management for precision agriculture is presented. The algorithm takes into account application-specific requirements, communication constraints and energy conservation characteristics. Genetic algorithms are used as the optimization tool of the developed system and an appropriate fitness function is devel...

1 Texas AgriLife Research, Texas A&M System, Vernon TX 76384 2 Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-52305 3 Centre for the Management of Arid Environments, Locked Bag 22, Kalgoorlie, WA 6433, Australia 4 United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Springfield, CO 81073 5 United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resou...

The paradigm of Cloud computing introduces new approaches to manage IT services going beyond concepts originating in traditional IT service management. The main goal is to automate the whole management of services to reduce costs and to make management tasks less error-prone. Two different service management paradigms are used in practice: configuration management and model-driven Cloud managem...

A model developed to analyze the environmental impacts of aquaculture and the productivity and ecological function of integrated aquaculture/agriculture systems was evaluated using sensitivity analysis and model validation methods. The validated model was used to identify priority areas for future research in integrated aquaculture/agriculture systems and to study the flow of nitrogen in these ...

The most exploited and widely used fungal biocontrol agents in agriculture for the management of plant diseases caused by a wide spectrum of fungal pathogens (Sharma et al., 2014). Trichoderma is among the most exploited fungal biocontrol agents in agriculture for the management of plant diseases caused by a wide spectrum of fungal pathogens (Mathivanan et al., 2000). Production of extracellula...

Proposing a suitable soil quality index for natural, secondary and rehabilitated tropical forests in Malaysia A. Arifin*, D. S. Karam, J. Shamshuddin, N. M. Majid, O. Radziah, A. H. Hazandy and I. Zahari Department of Forest Production, Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Laboratory of Sustainable Bioresource Management, Institute of Tropical F...

1 Towards Ontological Approach to Security Risk Analysis of Information System: Model and Architecture; Oluwasefunmi ‘Tale Arogundade, Laboratory of Management Decision and Information Systems, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China & Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria Olusola Adeniran, Department...

1 Department of Zoology,University of Sargodha,Sargodha, Pakistan 2 Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Park Road, Chakh Shazad, Islamabad, Pakistan 3 Department of Botany,PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 4 Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 5 Department of Zoology, PMASAri...

Dept Pathobiology, University of Guelph: Andrew Peregrine, Krishna Shakya, Jacob Avula, Silvina Fernandez (formerly) Dept Population Medicine, University of Guelph: Andria Jones, Paula Menzies, David Kelton, America Mederos (formerly), Alessia Guthrie (formerly), Laura Falzon (PhD candidate), Bradley de Wolf (MSc candidate), Dept. Health Management, University of Prince Edward Island: John VanL...

Powdery mildew disease of beans in India causes major economic losses in agriculture. For sustainable agriculture, detection and identification of diseases in plants is very important. In this review, we are trying to identify the powdery mildew disease of beans crop by using some image processing and pattern recognition techniques and comparing with molecular and spectroscopic techniques. Earl...