Agricultural Economics, 2003 (vol. 49), issue 9

BORM - overview of the methodology and case study of the agrarian information system

V. Merunka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):397-406 | DOI: 10.17221/5421-AGRICECON  

BORM (Business Object Relationship Modelling) is a methodology developed to capture the knowledge of process-based business systems. It has been in development since 1993 and has proved an effective method, which is popular with both users and analysts. This paper presents BORM, its tools, and methods via a case study of the agrarian information system. BORM is based on the combination of object-oriented approach and process-based modelling. Also, an advantage of BORM is the small number of concepts required combined with a considerable expressiveness. In this way, BORM is in the tradition of pure approach established over the past years by structured...

Why interoperability for agriculture and tourism

K. Charvát, S. Kafka, Z. Trávníček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):407-411 | DOI: 10.17221/5423-AGRICECON  

The main focus of the future solutions will be sharing of knowledge. The coming systems will be designed and implemented as advanced distributed interoperable Web services that will share data, information, knowledge and services across Europe. The innovative systems will also implement advanced functionality for mobile data access; location based services, personalised and position sensitive services. The interoperability on the level of data as well as services will be important topic in next years. The WirelessInfo project was one from the first worldwide practical implementation of GIS interoperable standards on mobile platform.

The AGRIS - www portal for agrarian sector and countryside (www.agris.cz)

J. Jarolímek, J. Vaněk, R. Brázda

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):412-415 | DOI: 10.17221/5424-AGRICECON  

The project of the AGRIS WWW portal proposes from its very beginning to establish a platform for providing information from the spheres of agriculture, food industry, forestry and from other areas related to the countryside. The main objective is to provide access to the already existing information sources, to run its own news service and to help with publishing of the information to the subjects that have limited conditions for electronic (Internet) presentation. This leads to creating of a complex block of information from the industry. This block is to serve for improving availability of the respective information for managers, public administration,...

Management of zones in precision farming

P. Gnip, K. Charvát

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):416-418 | DOI: 10.17221/5425-AGRICECON  

Precision farming is a very fast developing form of the Farm Management System, especially in crop production, in whole world and in our country as well. There, it is adopted since the second half of the 90s of the 20th century. The system of data collection, analysis, presentation and application of information in precision farming is reaching over the possibilities of their use by common farmers or agricultural companies. Service companies in this case play a very important role as an executor of exacting analysis, data collection and their presentation. Management zones present simplification of the difficult operations and recommendations including...

Using technology of data collection and data processing in precision farming

P. Gnip, S. Kafka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):419-426 | DOI: 10.17221/5426-AGRICECON  

Data collection, data processing, data presentation and data application in the System of Precision farming guarantee a success of this system in the market. Difficulties of technologies, which are currently and continually involved in this system, argue against its practical using by farmers. In this case, service company wants to create a suitable environment not only for data collection, but also for the high quality of the information distribution to customers. One of such tools is the MapServer placed on Internet web sites.

Neural networks in data mining

A. Veselý

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):427-431 | DOI: 10.17221/5427-AGRICECON  

To posses relevant information is an inevitable condition for successful enterprising in modern business. Information could be parted to data and knowledge. How to gather, store and retrieve data is studied in database theory. In the knowledge engineering, there is in the centre of interest the knowledge and methods of its formalization and gaining are studied. Knowledge could be gained from experts, specialists in the area of interest, or it can be gained by induction from sets of data. Automatic induction of knowledge from data sets, usually stored in large databases, is called data mining. Classical methods of gaining knowledge from data sets are...

Utilisation of the GPS information technology for the control of providing the EU support oriented on less favoured areas (LFA)

Z. Trávníček, M. Kavka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):432-438 | DOI: 10.17221/5428-AGRICECON  

In all partial aspects, subsidies can be effectively realised only if the adequate system of information is set up and used both on the level of subsidy suppliers (government) and on the level of subsidy recipients (agricultural organisations). It is essential to control and evaluate the usefulness of providing the support. The GPS technologies are ones of many options how to contribute to this effort. The proceeding rapid progress and upgrade of these technologies, miniaturisation of the apparatus along with the decreasing price and increasing technological efficiency, accuracy and reliability are together granting significant preconditions for their...

Logistics in agricultural production

D. Vaněček, D. Kaláb

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):439-443 | DOI: 10.17221/5429-AGRICECON  

In spite that the great importance of logistics in industry, business and other branches is generally acknowledged, this problem is not systematically investigated in agriculture. As a presumption of a detailed analysis, the knowledge of the volume and structure of the material flow is necessary. The authors have proposed their own methodological procedure which issues from technological indicators, published by the Ministry of Agriculture CR for individual plants and categories of animals and which makes possible a further classification of these data for enterprises with different level of farming. These published standards of the Ministry serve...

E-Commerce in agriculture, and food industry

I. Vrana

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2003, 49(9):444-446 | DOI: 10.17221/5430-AGRICECON