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 : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 93
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Software engineering.; Operations research.; Management science.; Agricultural economics.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Agricultural Economics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Part I. Concepts and Notations
• 1. Programming Paradigms
• 2. Basic Principles of the Object-Oriented Paradigm
• 3. Object-Oriented Concepts and Their UML Notation
• 4. Relationships
• 5. Use Cases and Actors
• 6. UML Diagrams
• 7. Design Patterns
• 8. Exercises
• 9. The Object Constraint Language (OCL)
• 10. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Approach
• Part II. Applications
• 11. The Kraalingen Approach to Crop Simulation
• 12. The Plug and Play Architecture
• 13. Soil Water-Balance and Irrigation-Scheduling Models: a Case Study
• 14. Distributed Models
• 15. MDA with Oliva Nova
• 16. Answers
• Glossary
• References.