Overview
- Presents a rigorous approach to the design and development of complex and flexible agricultural and environmental systems
- Provides an introduction to object-oriented modeling with applications tailored for students and researchers in agricultural and environmental fields
- This second edition includes three new chapters as well as newly developed exercise sets at the end of each chapter
- Can serve as a strong supplementary text for courses focusing on mathematical programming in agriculture, agricultural operations research methods, analysis of agricultural production, agronomy and soil science or applied mathematical modeling
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA, volume 93)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts and Notations
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems presents cutting-edge software engineering techniques for designing and implementing better agricultural software systems based on the object-oriented paradigm and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The focus is on the presentation of rigorous step-by-step approaches for modeling flexible agricultural and environmental systems, starting with a conceptual diagram representing elements of the system and their relationships. Furthermore, diagrams such as sequential and collaboration diagrams are used to explain the dynamic and static aspects of the software system.
This second edition includes: a new chapter on Object Constraint Language (OCL), a new section dedicated to the Model-VIEW-Controller (MVC) design pattern, new chapters presenting details of two MDA-based tools – the Virtual Enterprise and Olivia Nova and a new chapter with exercises on conceptual modeling. It may be highly useful to undergraduate and graduate students as the first edition has proven to be a useful supplementary textbook for courses in mathematical programming in agriculture, ecology, information technology, agricultural operations research methods, agronomy and soil science and applied mathematical modeling. The book has broad appeal for anyone involved in software development projects in agriculture and to researchers in general who are interested in modeling complex systems.
From the reviews of the first edition:
"The book will be useful for those interested in gaining a quick understanding of current software development techniques and how they are applied in practice... this is a good introductory text on the application of OOAD, UML and design patters to the creation of agricultural systems. It is technically sound and well written."
—Computing Reviews, September 2006
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems
Book Subtitle: An Object-Oriented and UML Approach
Authors: Petraq J. Papajorgji, Panos M. Pardalos
Series Title: Springer Optimization and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7463-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7462-4Published: 10 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7903-2Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-7463-1Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1931-6828
Series E-ISSN: 1931-6836
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 150 b/w illustrations, 89 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research, Management Science, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Agricultural Economics