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Systems Simulation in Agriculture / by J.B. Dent, M.J. Blackie.

A fast-growing interest in the concepts and application of systems research has spawned a wide and general literature over the past decade. Most disciplinary areas have been touched, but commerce, engineering and military studies have, perhaps, been best served with outstanding texts. No provision h...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Dent, J. B.
Other Authors: Blackie, M. J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1979.
Subjects:
Science.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Principles of Model-building
  • Why the Computer?
  • A Definition of System
  • System Simulation
  • A General Statement of Procedure in Systems Simulation
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 2. Model-construction
  • Getting Started
  • The Process of Modelling
  • Summary
  • Workshop
  • 3. Computer Considerations
  • Choosing a Language
  • Design Criteria for Computer Modelling
  • Summary
  • Workshop
  • 4. Stochastic Specification
  • The Case For and Against Stochasticity in Modelling
  • Autocorrelation
  • Generating Random Variates
  • Some Final Words
  • Workshop
  • 5. Model-evaluation
  • Testing Models Against Design Criteria (Verification)
  • Validation of Simulation Models
  • Validation Procedures
  • A Long-term View of Model-evaluation
  • 6. Design of Simulation Experiments
  • Factors, Treatments and Replicates
  • Computer-based Experimentation
  • Optimum-seeking Designs
  • Concluding Comments
  • 7. Model-application
  • Systems Involvement in the Research Process
  • Systems Involvement in Farmer Decision Making and Business Control
  • Design Pointers for Successful Agricultural-information System Designs
  • Future Developments in Agricultural-information Systems
  • Skeleton Models in Applied Research Direction
  • Final Synthesis.

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