Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems An Object-Oriented and UML Approach /

• Main Authors: Papajorgji, Petraq J. (Author), Pardalos, Panos M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Applied Optimization, 100
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer simulation.; Agriculture.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Simulation and Modeling.

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 book is divided in two parts: T...

Table of Contents:

• Concepts and Notations
• Programming Paradigms
• Basic Principles of the Object-Oriented Paradigm
• Object-Oriented Concepts and Their UML Notation
• Relationships
• Use Cases and Actors
• UML Diagrams
• Design Patterns
• Applications
• The Kraalingen Approach to Crop Simulation
• The Plug and Play Architecture
• Soil Water-Balance and Irrigation-Scheduling Models: A Case Study
• Distributed Models
• Epilogue.