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Simulation Models as Tools for Crop Management

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Decision support system (DSS) :

a class of information systems (including but not limited to computerized systems) that support business and organizational decision-making activities. A properly designed DSS is an interactive software-based system intended to help decision-makers compile useful information from a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, or business models to identify and solve problems and make decisions

Farming system :

the particular mix of agricultural activities in which a farm household engages

Model :

simplified mathematical description of a system

Operational crop management :

decisions concerned with daily activities of the farm, in response to the current state of the system and the (anticipated) environment

Simulation :

building a model and studying its dynamic behavior

Strategic crop management :

decisions with respect to agroecosystems on the basis of the expected long-term performance of these systems, as influenced by the natural...

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  1. Chairgroup Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Herman van Keulen

  2. Business Unit Agrosystems Research, Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Herman van Keulen

  3. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Senthold Asseng

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van Keulen, H., Asseng, S. (2018). Simulation Models as Tools for Crop Management. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_1047-1

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