Over the last few years, an increasing number of agricultural R&D actors have sought to discover and get know farmers’ practices that they consider as innovative, unconventional, or promising. We refer these approaches, all which aim support design farming systems, ‘farmer innovation tracking’. There is still a lack knowledge, however, about specificities approaches adopted track innovations ho...

Having in mind that energy is being regarded as indispensable to the socio-economic progress of developing and developed nations, where main objective implies replacement reduction a major portion fossil fuels utilization, implementation renewable technologies natural phenomena are transformed into beneficial types becoming more appreciated needed. Among resources we know today, solar most bene...

Modern military simulations employ a variety of models to realistically represent warfighting capabilities and the environments in which these capabilities operate. However, these models rarely represent the uncertainty inherent in realworld domains, and simulations rarely depict uncertainty in decision-makers’ battlespace displays. In this paper, we describe a research program to identify and ...

The University of Hertfordshire, in collaboration with two UK agricultural establishments ADAS and IACR-Rothamsted are developing a computerised decision support system for environmental management of arable agriculture. Part of this system is aimed towards encouraging sound farmland conservation to protect existing plants and animals, to encourage greater biodiversity and to help the farming c...

limitations in the design method used for the support systems of urban buildings make them vulnerable to damage by adjacent excavations. this paper examines a traditional system used to support excavation sites and adjacent buildings in which inclined struts are connected to the wall or foundation of the adjacent building. this method can be considered to be a type of shoring or underpinning. t...

As online social network are so popular, their users are getting used to make decisions based on opinions collected from their friends. While conventional decision support system has been extensively investigated, little specific mechanism, however, on how social networks can help users with online purchasing decision-making is developed. By introducing design rationale and social impact theory...

This article discusses how data warehousing, data mining, and decision support systems can reduce the national cancer burden or the oral complications of cancer therapies, especially as related to oral and pharyngeal cancers. An information system is presented that will deliver the necessary information technology to clinical, administrative, and policy researchers and analysts in an effective ...