Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(11):546-552 | DOI: 10.17221/263-AGRICECON

Knowledge maps in agriculture and rural development

H. Brožová, T. Šubrt, J. Bartoška
Department of Engineering Systems, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic

The possibility of knowledge maps use in the decision-making process in agriculture and rural development is discussed in this paper. Each knowledge map presents a visualization of knowledge using different tools, where a mathematical model can be applied as one of them. The hierarchical structure of a knowledge map conforms to the general structure of a mathematical model. The mathematical model, when successfully solved and correctly read, is a knowledge map in itself. The parallels exist also between the creation process of a mathematical model and of a knowledge map. In general, every phase of a system approach can lead to a special knowledge map. The following paper explains this process and demonstrates it on the farm production structure optimisation problem solved by using a linear programming model.

Keywords: knowledge formalisation, system approach, decision-making, map creation process, model creation process

Published: November 30, 2008  Show citation

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Brožová H, Šubrt T, Bartoška J. Knowledge maps in agriculture and rural development. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2008;54(11):546-552. doi: 10.17221/263-AGRICECON.
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