Overview
- Presents the state of the art in agricultural operations research
- Demand will increase as climate and population change affects food production
- Covers agricultural OR and derived applications for the entire agri-food industry
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 224)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The scope of this book is Operations Research methods in Agriculture and a thorough discussion of derived applications in the Agri-food industry. The book summarizes current research and practice in this area and illustrates the development of useful approaches to deal with actual problems arising in the agriculture sector and the agri-food industry.
This book is intended to collect in one volume high quality chapters on Methods and Applications in Agriculture and Agri-food industry considering both theoretical issues and application results. Methods applied to problems in agriculture and the agri-food industry include, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
- Dynamic programming
- Multi-criteria decision methods
- Markov decision processes
- Linear programming
- Stochastic programming
- Parameter estimation and knowledge acquisition
- Learning from data
- Simulation
- Descriptive and normative decision tree techniques, including: agent modelling and simulation, and state of the art surveys
Each chapter includes some standard and traditional methodology but also some recent research advances. All the applications presented in the chapters have been inspired and motivated by the demands from the agriculture and food production areas.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry
Editors: Lluis M. Plà-Aragonés
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2483-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2482-0Published: 29 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4420-0Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2483-7Published: 28 April 2015
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 464
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Agricultural Economics