In trying to respond to societal demands for sustainable development, farming systems
worldwide face a range of environmental, technical and economic challenges. These …

Decision support systems (DSS), like other information systems (IS) before them, were
designed to serve functions deemed by 'management scientists' to be potentially useful to …

Agriculture should now provide not only high yields but also sustainable development with a
sound management of the diversity of ecosystems. Due to this increased complexity of …

Farm management information systems (FMIS) have steadily increased in their level of
sophistication as they have included new technologies with Internet connectivity being the …

FARMSCAPE (Farmers', Advisers', Researchers', Monitoring, Simulation, Communication
And Performance Evaluation) is a program of participatory research with the farming …

Decision support systems are now mostly computer and internet-based information systems
designed to support land managers with complex decision-making. However, there is …

The prospect that decision support systems (DSS) can help farmers adjust their
management to suit seasonal conditions by putting scientific knowledge and rational risk …

The idea that simulation models of agricultural production can serve as tools for farmers
remains a compelling idea even after 3 decades of mostly disappointing development …

Despite years of decision support systems (DSS) research, DSS artifacts are frequently
criticized for lacking practitioner relevance and for neglecting configurability and contextual …

For much of the past 25 years it has seemed only a matter of time until computerised
decision support systems (DSSs) became standard tools in the management of family farms …