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Proceedings

EFITA/WCCA 2005 Joint Conference

5th Conference of the European Federation for Information Technology in

Agriculture, Food and Environment

and

3rd World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Organizers

EFITA – European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture,

Food and Environment

APDTICA – Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Tecnologias

de Informação e Comunicação na Agricultura

UTAD – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Edited by

J. Boaventura Cunha

Raul Morais

Vila Real, Portugal, 25-28 July 2005


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EFITA/WCCA 2005 Committees

Scientific Program Committee Local Organizing Committee

Chairman: Pedro Aguiar Pinto (Portugal) Chairman: José Boaventura Cunha

Co-Chairman: Andy Offer (UK) Co-Chairman: Miguel de Castro Neto

Carlos da Silva (Brazil) Members: Ana Nazaré Pereira

Fedro Zazueta (USA) António Valente

Gerhard Schiefer (Germany) Eduardo Pires

Iver Thysen (Denmark) Fernando Santos

José Boaventura Cunha (Portugal) Fontaínhas Fernandes

Pamela Andre (USA) João Pavão

Seishi Ninomiya (Japan) Jorge Azevedo

Members: Alexander Sideridis (Greece) José Aranha

Arnold Bregt (The Netherlands) Luís Torres Pereira

Caroline Parker (UK) Paulo Oliveira

Ehud Gelb (Israel) Paulo Salgado

Gabriel G. Martínez (Spain) Raul Morais

Guido Bonati (Italy)

Guy Waksman (France)

Isidro Laso (Spain)

Jose Reyes (Mexico)

Jiannong Xin (USA) Advisory Board Luis Gurovich (Chile) Andy Offer (EFITA)

Mick Harkin (Ireland) Anton Mangstl (FAO)

Miklós Herdon (Hungary) Carlos da Silva (PanAFITA)

Nick Sigrimis (Greece) Fedro Zazueta (ASAE)

Rolf Mueller (Germany) Pamela Andre (IAALD)

Torgil Svensson (Sweden) Seishi Ninomiya (AFITA)


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Preface

On behalf of the organizing committee and the international program committee, we are glad to

present this final program and the proceedings of the 5th Conference of the European Federation for

Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and Environment and the 3rd World Congress on

Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources Joint Meeting (EFITA/WCCA 2005).

Held at the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal on July 25-28,

2005, this Conference is the result of a cooperative effort between the European Federation for IT in

Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA) and national and international organizations with

interest in research and use of information technologies in agriculture, food and the environment. In

2003, the conference venue and organization were agreed during the EFITA General Assembly decision

in Debrecen, Hungary, and through the Memorandum of Understanding for International Cooperation

on the Utilization of IT for Agriculture, Food and the Environment signed by the Asian Federation for

Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA), the Pan-American Federation for Information

Technology in Agriculture (PanAFITA) and the European Federation for Information Technology in

Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA).

This conference provides a forum for professionals working in the agricultural, environmental and

rural sectors to exchange information on applications and developments in the use of Information

Technologies. The Scientific Program Committee received 301 abstracts from 47 countries. The

Committee selected 179 oral presentations and 40 poster presentations. We would like to express our

gratitude to those who sent works to us. The conference program includes 50 technical sessions and 5

keynote speeches by distinguished experts in their fields.

The congress location, Vila Real, is in the heart of the region of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, which

is characterized by the extraordinary beauty of its landscape and its protected areas. The Douro valley

is also famous for its vineyards that produce the famous Port wines. Please do enjoy both the

conference and the beauty of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.

Andy Offer

President of EFITA

José Boaventura

Organizing Committee Chair


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Plenary Papers

AGROffice a WinGIS based application for Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology and planning rural areas ........................................................................................................................... 2 Walter Mayer

Information Technology: Driver, Enabler and Integrator – Challenges and Potential............. 6 Gerhard Schiefer

Prospects in RFID – Technical progress and commercial applications – An overview ......... 8 Nick Sigrimis

Towards the Collaborative University ................................................................................................... 10 Fedro Zazueta

DSS and Modeling: Farm Management

PA325 Technology Acceptance and the Uptake of Agricultural DSS........................................................ 17 Caroline G. Parker

PA155 Forecasting Commodity Prices for Predictive Decision Support Systems................................. 23 Tamer Shahwan and Frank Lemke

PA191 Using enterprise modeling methodologies for modeling agricultural activities and identifying information requirements. A Case Study of a Livestock Farm ......................... 33 Vincent Abt, Frédéric Vigier, Henri Pierreval, Jean-Baptiste Bigeon and Cédric Durand

PA229 Perspectives of modelling the farmer’ seed system for in situ conservation of sorghum varieties in Mali .......................................................................................................................... 39 Didier Bazile, Christophe Le Page, Souleymane Dembele and Géraldine Abrami

PA295 Integrated Wheat N Nutrition Management in Morocco: A Decision Support Model .............. 47 F. Mosseddaq, S. Dnidane and M. Lahlou

PA305 A simulation approach to evaluate supply policies of a pig slurry treatment plant by multiple farms......................................................................................................................................... 55 François Guerrin and Jean-Michel Médoc

PA315 A decision support system for post- emergence weed management in winter wheat ................................................................................................................................................. 63 A. Atri, E. Zand, M. Baghestani, J. khalghani and M.Partovi

PA338 FarmN: A Decision Support Tool for Managing Nitrogen Flow at the Farm Level................... 67 Margit S. Jørgensen, Nina K. Detlefsen and Nicholas J. Hutchings

PA154 MetaForest - a web-based decision system to support forest management involving multiple-ownership.................................................................................................................... 74 Rui P. Ribeiro and José G. Borges

PA168 Decision Support Systems for Cereal Crop Disease Control ........................................................ 75 Tagir Z. Ibragimov, Irina T. Ibragimova and Sergey S. Sanin

PA181 The Balanced Scorecard as a strategic management instrument for agricultural enterprises in transition – a case study from Ukraine................................................ 81 Alexej Lissitsa and Elena Kovtoun

PA190 PLANET Nutrient Management Decision Support System – a standard approach to fertiliser recommendations ............................................................................................... 89 M..M. Gibbons, C.P. Fawcett, R.J. Waring, K. Dearne, P.M.R. Dampney, S.J. Richardson


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PA197 The SIGIRA-Part II. Irrigation Scheduling Service ............................................................................ 95 Carreira D., Teixeira J.L., Oliveira I. and Fabião M.

PA199 Enhancing transformational and incremental innovation with ICT ............................................... 103 Cor N. Verdouw, J. Wolfert and A.J.M. Beulens

PA202 A multi-objective DSS for cover crop management processing fuzzy expert knowledge........................................................................................................................................ 111 Rainer M. Sodtke

PA216 The Estimation of the Econometric Model of Milk Yield per Cow: A Support Vector Machine Regression Approach............................................................................. 119 R. Põldaru and J. Roots

PA101 “Haifa Nutri-Net” - a comprehensive crop Nutrition software, operated over the web............................................................................................................................... 127 Oded Achilea, Eyal Ronen and Gad Elharrar

PA354 Decision Support System for Farm Mechanization........................................................................... 135 Suárez de Cepeda, M., Recio, B., Rubio, F.

DSS and Modeling into Practice: Environment and Scientific

PA120 Decision Support System for Agroforestry Land Use Modelling................................................... 142 Inés Santé Riveira and Rafael Crecente Maseda

PA149 Modelling trophic interactions in an eutrophic estuary using a Stochastic Dynamic Methodology (SDM) ................................................................................................................. 150 Pedro Silva-Santos, Miguel Â. Pardal, Ricardo J.Lopes, Tiago Múrias, Mário Santos and João Alexandre Cabral

PA186 The estimation of the climate change impact on the Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus Pinaster NPP using the FOREST-BGC.................................................................................... 155 Domingos Lopes, JoséGomes-Laranjo, Nigel Walford, José Aranha and Neil Lucas

PA224 SADREG, a DSS for Improving Surface Irrigation Systems .......................................................... 160 J. M. Gonçalves, M.G. Horst, L.S. Pereira, J. Rolim, A. Muga

PA235 Design and Evaluation of Traveling-Gun Systems: the Simulation Model TRAVGUN .......... 166 J. Rolim and L.S. Pereira

PA264 Ontological metamodeling of grain drying processes ...................................................................... 172 Sergej Arhipov

PA280 The MicroWave approach for improving the farm modelling process ......................................... 178 S. Van Passel, J. Wolfert, J. Lepoutre, H.B. van der Veen, W. Hennen, W. Dol and F. Bouma

PA281 Getting Decision Support Systems Used............................................................................................. 186 Andy Offer, David Parsons, Audrey Mayes, Paul Meakin

PA299 Azodyn: a crop model and a graphic interface as a decision tool to manage wheat spring nitrogen fertilization........................................................................................................... 192 M-H. Jeuffroy and Y. Sohbi

PA332 Analysis of weather forecasts ................................................................................................................. 200 Nina K. Detlefsen

PA340 QPYRENAICA – A computer simulator for management of Pyrenean oak forests ................ 208 João P. Carvalho, João P. Moura and Manuel C. Reis

PA347 Biological Inspired Algorithms Applications in Life Sciences ......................................................... 212 S. Pinto Teixeira, P. B. de Moura Oliveira, J. M. Moutinho Pereira and J. Boaventura Cunha


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Instrumentation, Modeling and Control

PA307 The use of airborn LIDAR and multispectral sensors for Orchard Trees inventory and characterization................................................................................................................................... 221

Alain A. Viau, Jae-Dong Jang, V. Payan and A. Devost

PA160 Comparison of maturity detection of “Ataulfo” mangoes using thermal imaging and NIR.......................................................................................................................... 229

Federico Hahn and Guadalupe Hernandez

PA183 An electronic control system for proportional pesticide application to the canopy volume in tree crops................................................................................................................................... 236

Francesc Solanelles, A. Escola, S. Planas, J. Rosell, F. Camp and F. Gràcia

PA116 Simulation and control strategies for an energetically efficient wood drying process .................................................................................................................................. 244

António Nogueira, Edgar Ataíde, Maria J. Martins, Sandra Enoch, David Loureiro, A. Costa, Á. Ramalho, J.Santos

PA173 X-Ray Fluorescent and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Measurement of Leaf Model.................. 252 Atsushi Hashimoto, T.Niwa, T. Yamamura, M. Rahman, K. Nakanishi, T. Kameoka, Takao Kumon and K. Hosoi

PA250 Pressurized Irrigation Network Modeling:a Flow Driven Analysis Approach............................. 260 Maria João Calejo, N. Lamaddalena, and L. S. Pereira

PA290 Stomatal behaviour, photosynthesis and leaf anatomy in grapevines grown at an elevated CO2 concentration in the field ......................................................................................... 266

C.M. Correia, J.M. Moutinho-Pereira, E.A. Bacelar, B. Gonçalves and J. Boaventura Cunha

PA388 A Multi-layer approach to a Multi-agent system for integrated management of greenhouse crop production..................................................................................... 272

D. Lambrou, K.G. Arvanitis, A. Anastasiou and N. Sigrimis

PA346 Soft-Computing methods in Greenhouse Environmental and Crop Modelling ......................... 280 P. M. Ferreira and A. E. Ruano

PA353 Testing procedure for precision combined drilling............................................................................. 288 Hannu E. S. Haapala

PA293 Computational fluid dynamics analysis of greenhouses with artificial heat tube...................... 294 A. Rouboa, E. Monteiro and J. Vieira

PA402 Applications of the Moiré Optical Technique in Agricultural Engineering Problems................ 302 Inacio Maria Dal Fabbro, Silvestre Rodrigues and Roberto Alves Braga Jr

PA605 Ensuring the accurate prediction of airflow patterns in a climatic calf house by CFD.............................................................................................................................................. 310

Norton, T., Grant, J., Lenehan, J.J, Fallon, R., Da-Wen Sun and Dodd, V.A.

PA334 Clustering of a Greenhouse Fuzzy Model ........................................................................................... 318 Paulo Salgado, Paulo Afonso and J. Boaventura Cunha

PA368 Thermal Stress Analysis Based on Shadow Moiré Technique in a Convective Dryer......................................................................................................................................... 326

Rafael A. de Oliveira, Daniel Albiero, Inacio M. Dal Fabbro, Kil J. Park and Kil J.B. Park

PA370 Moiré assisted fruit packing ..................................................................................................................... 332 Inacio Maria Dal Fabbro, Silvestre Rodrigues and Daniel Albiero

PA604 Color Measurement with Machine Vision, and Comparison with Hand-Held Colorimeters ........................................................................................................................... 338

Murat O. Balabana and Asli Z. Odabasi


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e-AgBusiness and Production Chain Management

PA104 The Emerging Role of E-Agribusiness - State of the Art and Perspectives in Germany ......................................................................................................................... 345

Reiner Doluschitz, Markus Emmel, Fabian Kaiser, Jens Pape and Michael Roth

PA145 Construction of E-AgBusiness Model for High-Class Japonica Rice in EU............................... 351 Yutaka Sasaki, S. Bocchi, F. Pagliari and M. Suzuki

PA148 Electronic exchange trade with agrarian commodities in the Czech Republic ......................... 357 Jan Jarolímek,.J. Vanek and M.Adamek

PA602 Traceability and cross compliance: towards common data descriptions.................................... 365 Guy Waksman and Sylvie Masselin-Silvin

PA179 A conceptual framework for e-business adoption and development for enterprises in the agri-food industry................................................................................................ 370

A. Matopoulos, M. Vlachopoulou, V. Manthou and B. Manos

PA211 An eServices System to support information exchange among the agricultural community ....................................................................................................................... 376

Alexander Sideridis, C.I. Costopoulou, Ch.Z. Patrikakis, N. Manouselis, G. Stalides

PA251 Policy, Economic, and Industry Repercussions of Current E-Business Diffusion Rate In European Food Industry .......................................................................................... 382

Ilias Vlachos

PA274 Development tools for mobile devices in market price information systems............................. 388 Róbert Szilágyi, Miklós Herdon and Péter Lengyel

PA279 Trust and e-commerce in agrifood networks: Configuration of an electronic trust environment..................................................................................................................... 393

Melanie Fritz, Tobias Hausen and Gerhard Schiefer

PA292 Information Management Schemes in Agri-Food Chains ............................................................... 401 Gerhard Schiefer

PA320 e-Negotiations in Agricultural B2B e-Commerce............................................................................... 409 Sotiris T. Karetsos and Constantina I. Costopoulou

PA360 E-business and terroir-linked products in Italy: a case study on Romagna wine producers ........................................................................................................................ 415

Maurizio Canavari, Alessandro Farneti, Marco Lucchi and Martyn Warren

PA237 Trust Building in agri-food markets with computer-mediated business relationships ............................................................................................................................... 421 Canavari M., Fritz M., Hausen T., Rivaroli S. and Schiefer G.

PA287 A Supply Chain Framework to Secure the Future of the Irish Beef Farming Sector ............................................................................................................................................ 430 Paul Mc Carthy and Dr. Hugh Melvin

Information Systems and Databases

PA111 AgroXML – A Standardised Data Format for Information Flow in Agriculture .......................... 439 Reiner Doluschitz, Martin Kunisch, Thomas Jungbluth and Carsten Eider

PA128 Development of a Web-base State Agricultural Emergency Response System...................... 444 Jiannong Xin, G. S. Christy and B. Barfield


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PA130 Modelling a Queuing System for a Virtual Agricultural Call Center.............................................. 450 Inci Sentarli and Arif Orçun Sakarya

PA239 Bibliographic informations in our days - Metadata formats in Hungary ...................................... 456 Marianna Salgáné Medveczki

PA255 The Evolution of Knowledge Representation within Embrapa's Information Agency .................................................................................................................................... 464

Kleber X. S. de Souza, Joseph Davis, Silvio R. M. Evangelista, Marcia I. F. Souza, M. F. Moura and Adriana D. dos Santos

PA219 “eFARMER”~CAP-related and country-specific eContent Management ................................... 470 L. Pitlik, I. Pető, M. Pásztor, A. Popovics, L. Bunkóczi, V. K. Bálint, I. Kochetkov, A. Pisartsov, P.K. Petz and L. Papócsi

PA267 Information architecture models for the reduction of administrative burdens: using available information in agro chains........................................................................................... 478

E. Annevelink, F.A. Geerling-Eiff, G.H. Kroeze, H.A.B. van der Meulen, H. Stormink, H.C. Holster, K.J. Poppe, R. Schreuder, and R.A.F. van Paassen

PA273 Management in Fruit and Vegetable Production with Mobile Internet......................................... 484 Allan Leck Jensen, Iver Thysen and Margrethe B. Høstgaard

PA328 Draft proposal standard: XML-schema for agrometeorological data........................................... 490 T. Rafoss, M. Gröntoft, M. Laurenson, S. Ninomiya, I. Thysen and T-E. Skog

PA336 AGRIEDUCA – specialized courses for education and advisory purposes............................... 498 Ján Brindza, Pavol Podhradský, Ján Grolmus, Dezider Tóth, Peter Popík, Peter Brindza

PA341 A Service Oriented Information System to Manage Bromelia Distributed Database ................................................................................................................................. 504

P.L.P. Corrêa, T.T. Nagamine, V. H. Suzuki, R. G. Guimarães and M. Carvalhaes

PA342 Strategic decisions on the basis of the Hungarian Soil Information Database using by Internet technology................................................................................................ 512

L. Várallyai, B. Kovács, and J. Prokisch

PA345 Preparing a survey of food industry companies in Hungary’s Southern Great Plain Region .................................................................................................................. 518

G. Hampel and M. Nagy

PA152 RARITA: an information system for the exchange of research and technical information on Italian animal breeds ................................................................................... 524

P. Leone and C. Sala

Internet Services

PA175 Landmand.dk – a personal portal for farmers .................................................................................... 529 Jens Peter Hansen, Nicolai Fog Hansen, Annette Hørning and Ejnar Schultz

PA227 WEBISAREG – Web Based Decision System Support for Irrigation Management ................ 537 R. P. Branco, P. R. Teodoro and L. S. Pereira

PA253 A Common Internet Platform for the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service............................... 543 Annette Hørning, Jens Peter Hansen, Nicolai Fog Hansen and Ejnar Schultz

PA291 Web Application for Regional Presentation and Development...................................................... 551 A K. Papastavrou, P D. Lefakis, Z S. Andreopoulou, S E. Vassiliadou, K S. Ioannou and A I. Lazaridou

PA105 Electronic Commerce Readiness in the Food Industry: Development and Application of an Assessment Tool ....................................................................................................... 559

Ludwig Theuvsen


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PA110 An Internet-Based Web Camera System To Observe Processing, Heat Detection, Breeding, Calving, And Other Cattle Behavior at Remote Rangeland and Field Station Locations .............................................................................................................................. 567

James W. Oltjen and Abbas Ahmadi

PA188 EUCABLIGHT Database: Collecting, storing and analysing data related to Potato Late Blight........................................................................................................................................ 575

Poul Lassen and Jens Grønbech Hansen

PA193 ZIEZO.biz, the Dutch agricultural portalsite ........................................................................................ 583 Fokke de Jong

PA213 E-Government for Rural Development: Current Trends and Opportunities for Agriculture.................................................................................................................... 589

Bader D. Mahaman, Maria S. Ntaliani, and Constantina I. Costopoulou

PA294 Mobile computing potential to deal with the last mile issue in farmers’ information delivery ................................................................................................................... 595

Miguel C. Neto and Pedro A. Pinto

PA331 Information Provided and Presence of the Spanish Agrifood Companies in the Internet ........................................................................................................................ 601

J.F. Juliá, G. García-Martínez and E. Silvestre

PA170 Using metadata to bring buyers closer to agricultural e-markets ................................................. 607 N. Manouselis, C.I. Costopoulou, C.Z. Patrikakis and A.B. Sideridis

PA165 Supporting Irrigation Management Strategies trough the Web: an application to the Portuguese Alentejo region.............................................................................. 615

Jorge Maia, Miguel Castro Neto and Isaurindo Oliveira

GIS and Precision Agriculture/GPS in Agriculture

PA108 Geotracking and –tracing from farm to factory – Case study: Sugar Beet Management Information System (SuMIS) ......................................................................................... 624

Rainer Laudien, Georg Bareth and Reiner Doluschitz

PA131 Comparison of fixed- and random-regression models using different functional approaches of lactation curves for milk yield forecasts ................................................................... 630

Christian Ammon and J. Spilke

PA162 GIS as a tool for the evaluation of land consolidation projects and land-use alternatives: the case-study of Aldeia da Luz..................................................................................... 636

M. Tristany and J. Coelho

PA195 Automation of Forest Investment Projects' Cartography................................................................. 644 Helena Ramos

PA163 Object Oriented Automation Model for Virtual Plant Growth — a Novel Morphogenetic Model ................................................................................................................................ 650

Honghao Zuo and Xiong Fanlun

PA217 Delimitation of Frost–risk territories with GIS tools ........................................................................... 656 Ákos Németh and Szabolcs Bella

PA234 HidroGest, a GIS application for irrigation projects management and model integration......................................................................................................................................... 663

Pedro Mateus, João Rolim, Luís S. Pereira


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PA249 Geospatial Web Data Sharing in Agriculture ...................................................................................... 669 Karel Charvat, Milan Kocab, Ivana Valdova, Tomas Cajthaml, Milan Konecny, Karel Stanek, Stanislav Holy, Stepan Kafka

PA260 Optical and Radar Images Analysis for Determining Land Cover in Mexico............................. 675 Jesus Soria-Ruiz and Yolanda Fernandez-Ordonez

PA285 Wireless Technologies for Field Data Acquisition ............................................................................. 681 Jean-Pierre Chanet, Daniel Boffety, Géraldine André,Thierry Humbert, Philippe Rameau, A. Amamra, Gil De Sousa, E. Piron, Kun Mean Hou, F. Vigier

PA308 Accuracy of 10 Guidance Systems for Farming under the same conditions at the same time ..................................................................................................................... 687

F. Henault and B. Brouant

Education/Training and Distance Learning/ Professional Accreditation

PA121 UC Virtual: A new educational platform for professional updating and accreditation programs.............................................................................................................................. 696

Luis Gurovich and I. Casas

PA125 Standardization of e-learning – stage of development and importance for agriculture.......... 702 Peggy Walther, Peter Giebler, Joachim Spilke and Regina Meyer

PA243 Synergies through Blending ‘On Site’ Learning with E-learning Internationally – Evaluating the Global Seminar on Environment and Sustainable Food Systems ................... 708

Jane Bech Larsen, Dorthe Christensen and Nadarajah Sriskandarajah

PA309 Agronomy teaching innovation using Information and Communication Technology .............. 714 Lhoussaine Moughli

PA387 Building a Distance Learning Training System in GIS Based on the Didactical and Pedagogical Study of the Classical Face-to-Face Type of Training ................................... 719

Otilia Holgado and Patrick Mayen

PA311 Fine tuning irrigation scheduling with phytomonitoring technology in Chile ............................. 727 Luis A. Gurovich and O. Saggé

PA324 Experiences in Curriculum Development for Agricultural Informatics Specialists at BSc and MSc level – Towards European Masters ...................................................................... 733

Miklós Herdon

PA358 Experiential Learning Online – Experiences from Designing and Running a Nordic Course in Agroecology ............................................................................................................... 739

Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Dorthe Christensen and Geir Lieblein

PA600 Information technology in agriculture as a successful curriculum for agricultural engineering students .......................................................................................................... 745

Jerzy Weres, Piotr Boniecki, Wojciech Mueller and Adam Krysztofiak

Rural and Environmental Development and Policy

PA192 Model based Assessment of Multifunctionality .................................................................................. 751 Bernd Weinmann, R. Borresch, F. Kuhlmann and P.M. Schmitz

PA215 The Farmers Assessments to Internet Benefits in Estonia ............................................................ 759 J. Orin and R. Põldaru


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PA221 Modeling the Irrigation Demand Hydrograph in a Pressurized System...................................... 765 M. J. Calejo, J.L. Teixeira , L. S. Pereira and N. Lamaddalena

PA225 SEDAM, a DSS for Demand and Distribution Simulation and Scenarios Evaluation in a Surface Irrigation District ............................................................................................. 771

J. M. Gonçalves, André P. Muga, Pedro Mateus, A.A.Campos and Luis S. Pereira

PA298 E-governance, e-democracy and rural citizens.................................................................................. 779 Martyn Warren

PA303 Classification of the grassland farmers from Eastern Hungary with fuzzy method ................. 785 István Forgó, Ágnes B. Simon

PA330 An Evaluation for the Digital Divide in Rural Areas........................................................................... 789 J.F. Juliá, G. García-Martínez and E. Silvestre

PA288 Development of Integrated Technological Information Systems to Support Land Management Projects in Portugal ............................................................................................... 795

R.P. Coito and P.E. Duarte

Field Data Acquisition and Recording/Wireless and Sensor Networks

PA201 Turf color measurement with conventional digital cameras ........................................................... 804 Jaume Casadesus, Carme Biel and Robert Savé

PA209 Remote Monitoring and Actuation based on LonWorks Technology........................................... 812 Sergio R. M. Canovas, Marlon G. Chermont and Carlos E. Cugnasca

PA245 EthoLog: a tool for data acquisition on behavioral studies ............................................................. 820 Antonio Mauro Saraiva, James C. Nieh, and Etienne Américo Cartolano Junior

PA248 Mobile agriculture........................................................................................................................................ 826 Karel Charvat, Milan Konecny, Karel Stanek, PAvel Dvorak, Zbynek Kribvanek, Jaroslav Jansa, Milan Kocab, Pavel VAnis, Pavel Gnip

PA297 Draft and fuel requirements in tillage operations: modelling for optimizing tractor-implement systems .................................................................................................. 831

João M. Serrano, José O. Peça and Fernando Santos

PA282 Agricultural Monitoring and Control System using Low-Cost Wireless Sensors Networks....................................................................................................................................... 837

P. Mestre, E. Peres and C. Serôdio

PA344 A Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Irrigation and Environmental Monitoring: A Position Article ......................................................................................................................................... 845

Raul Morais, A. Valente and C. Serôdio

PA381 Multi-functional heat pulse probe measurements of coupled vadose zone flow and transport.............................................................................................................. 851

Jan W. Hopmans, A. P. Mortensen, J. Simunek ,Y. Morid and A. Tuli

ICT Adoption and Extension

PA127 An analysis of the adoption of E-commerce in the agribusiness sector of Calabria ............... 859 Antonio P. Volpentesta, Nicola Frega, Franco Papandrea and Salvatore Ammirato

PA146 Knowledge Management of Farmers - From Data Generation to Knowledge Sharing .................................................................................................................................... 867

Karin Rosskopf and Peter Wagner


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PA119 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Adoption in Horticulture: A comparison to the EFITA Baseline .................................................................................................... 875

Nicole Taragola and Ehud Gelb

PA238 KodA: from knowledge to practice for Dutch arable farming.......................................................... 883 Jacques Wolfert, Herman B. Schoorlemmer, Peter G.A. Paree, Wouter Zunneberg and Jan Paul C. van Hoven

PA269 Linking GIS and Crop Modeling to expect sorghum cultivars diffusion area in Mali ............... 889 Mamy Soumaré, Michel Vaksmann, Bazile Didier and Mamoutou Kouressy

PA283 Adoption of ICT in the Greek Livestock Sector: Results of a survey in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki........................................................................................................................ 897

V. Samathrakisa, M. Salampasis, Ch. Batzios, M. Adroulidakis, G. Arabatzis

PA401 Use of Handheld Computers for Hydraulic Calculations of Microirrigation Subunits .............. 903 E.S. Sepúlveda, F. S. Zazueta, P. Vergot III and R.A. Bucklind

PA601 Promotion of the use of ICT by the agro-food sector ....................................................................... 909 Guy Waksman and Rémy Coffion

Food Safety and Control/Tracking-Tracing

PA106 The Economics of Traceability: A Model of Investments in Tracking and Tracing Systems in Agriculture and the Food Industry.................................................................... 914

Ludwig Theuvsen and Thorsten Hollmann-Hespos

PA107 Data capture in an agricultural setting for traceability and management ................................... 922 Amots Hetzroni, D. Shapira, I. Esquira and Y. Edan

PA157 Simulation of Air-Supply Systems Efficiency in Refrigerated Vehicles to Prevent Food Spoilage......................................................................................................................... 928

Rui Pitarma, J. E. Ramos, N. Lima and M. G. Carvalho

PA326 GrainPlan; The virtual grain store manager ........................................................................................ 935 Julie Shields and Caroline Parker

PA348 Development of non-destructive detection systems for Phytophthora infected potato tubers ................................................................................................................................ 941

Mana Saito, Roel Jansen, Yoshihiko Usui, Kazuhiro Nakano, Willem Hoogmoed, Harm Bartholomeus

PA254 An Information System to Trace Fresh Food Products from Farmers to Retailers ................. 947 J. Maia, G. Gaiolas, M. Mira da Silva, L. Mira da Silva

PA314 Electronic Identification of Sheep – a pilot study............................................................................... 953 E. J. Camp, A. Offer, B. Merrell and R. Keatinge

New Information Technologies in Animal Production PA126 Hybrid modelling of operational and analytical data at Precision Dairy Farming..................... 960

Christian Schulze, J. Spilke and W. Lehner

PA333 IDEA (Portugal) – Efficiency of the Electronic Identification on Livestock Animals................. 966 C. Roquete, P. Fonseca, P. Pinheiro, P. Carreira, T. Prata, E. Barbosa

PA363 Assessing the Surface Properties of Floors in Animal Production Buildings ............................ 978 Maarit Puumala, Kim Kaustell and Pekka Jauhiainen

PA400 Image control of growing pig behaviour in two housing environment.......................................... 982 Patrícia de Sousa, Rubens B.Souza and Arlei Coldebella


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PA405 Using Fuzzy Sets theory to analyze environmental condition in order to improve animal productivity ..................................................................................................................... 990

Mariângela Amendola, Mário Mollo Neto and Vasco Fitas Cruz

Dairy and Animal Production Systems PA113 PcDairy for Windows: Ration Formulation and Analysis Programs for Dairy Cattle ............... 999

Abbas Ahmadi and Peter H. Robinson

PA176 About somatic cell count in dairy production system........................................................................ 1007 Heli Kiiman, Elli Pärna, Merike Henno, and Olev Saveli

PA241 Use of data mining to characterize dairy herds with poor heifer growth..................................... 1013 Diederik Pietersma, René Lacroix, Roger Cue, Daniel Lefebvre and Kevin M. Wade

PA246 Knowledge discovery in milk fatty acid databases applied to suboptimal milk production............................................................................................................................................. 1019

Fievez, V., Van Looveren, J., Wanzele, W., Vlaeminck, B., Van Straalen, W., Wade, K., Lacroix, R

PA262 A Network Model of Dairy Cow Replacement under Herd Constraints ...................................... 1024 Albert de Vries

Farm Management in Europe for Farmers and AGRO IT PA137 A Web-Based Decision Support Environment for Farmers ............................................................ 1031

Algimantas Kurlavicius and G. Kurlavicius

PA218 Consistency controlled future generating models ............................................................................. 1037 L. Pitlik, I. Pető , M. Pásztor, A. Popovics, L. Bunkóczi and I. Szűcs

Modeling Agricultural Systems Using the Object-Oriented Paradigm and the Model Driven Architecture Approach PA232 Using UML to model the economic impact of invasive species: a case study of Pink Hibiscus Mealybug............................................................................................................ 1046

Ram Ranjan and Petraq Papajorgji

PA263 Model Driven Architecture for Software Application Generation................................................... 1054 Ryan Clark and Petraq Papajorgji

PA208 Using Model Driven Architecture principles to develop crop simulation models...................... 1062 Petraq Papajorgji and Ryan Clark

PA319 The OLIVANOVA MDA-approach to Applications Development .................................................. 1068 Juan Carlos Molina and Emilio Iborra

Grid Applications PA147 Application of GIS Tools: Drought vulnerability in Somogy County, Hungary .......................... 1076

Szabolcs Bella, Á. Németha and S. Szalaia

PA240 Thinking in Grid - Initiatives for Hungarian AgriGrid System.......................................................... 1084 Miklós Herdon, Péter Salga, Balázs Kónya and Róbert Szilágyi


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PA329 An Approach to Agricultural Information System based on Grid Concept ................................. 1092 S. Ninomiya, M. Laurenson and M. Hirafuji

Aquatic Resource Management PA112 AQUARIUS: A Computer Program for Water Quality Closure Rule Evaluation and Shellfish Sanitation Simulation.................................................................................. 1101

Fred S. Conte and Abbas Ahmadi

PA343 The effect of waste water on histological alterations in fish: A monitoring experimental system using renewable energies................................................................................ 1109

Monteiro, S., Garcia-Santos, S., Carrola, J., Pires, E., Boaventura Cunha, J. and Fontaínhas-Fernandes, A

PA361 Fish Biomonitorization in Douro Watershed: Jales Mines Area .................................................... 1115 João Carrola, António Fontaínhas-Fernandes, Sandra Monteiro, Sofia Garcia-Santos and José Aranha

AOS Workshop PA371 Thesaurus-Based Index Term Extraction for Agricultural Documents ........................................ 1122

Olena Medelyan and Ian H. Witten

PA378 Development and Application of an Irrigation Ontology .................................................................. 1130 C. Cornejo, H.W. Beck, D.Z. Haman and F.S. Zazueta

PA322 Ontology building process: The wine domain..................................................................................... 1138 João Graça, Márcio Mourão, Orlando Anunciação, Pedro Monteiro, H. Sofia Pinto and Virgílio Loureiro

PA372 Automatic Term Relationship Cleaning and Refinement for AGROVOC................................... 1146 Asanee Kawtrakul, A. Imsombut, A. Thunyakijjanukit, D. Soergel, Anita Liang, M. Sini, G. Johannsen, J. Keizer

PA364 The Mapping Schema from Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus to AGROVOC ............................ 1155 A. Liang, M. Sini, Chang Chun, Li Sijing, Lu Wenlin, He Chunpei and J.Keizer

PA380 Food Informatics: Sharing Food Knowledge for Research & Development .............................. 1161 Nicole J.J.P. Koenderink, J. Lars Hulzebos, Hajo Rijgersberg and Jan L. Top

PA373 A Crop-Pest Ontology for Extension Publications............................................................................. 1169 Howard W. Beck, Soonho Kim and Diana Hagan

PA379 Establishing basic infrastructural and methodological background of Semantic Web in the domain of food and agriculture in Hungary ................................................ 1177

Laszlo Gabor Papocsi and Ferenc Kulcsar

PA265 Overview of an efficient knowledge management model for improving the role of agriculture educational system in the process of developing a knowledge-based agriculture: the case of Iran .................................................................................. 1183

Hamidreza Mokhtari, Behrooz Arastoo and Omid Jahanshahi

PA261 Design Approach for a Crop Information System in Mexico .......................................................... 1191 Yolanda Fernandez-Ordonez and Jesus Soria-Ruiz

Posters PA109 Investigation of mechanical properties variation of apples during the storage with Uniaxial test.......................................................................................................................... 1200

Hassan Mas’oudi, Ahmad Tabatabaeefar and Ali Mohammad Borghaee


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PA114 New Information and Communication Technologies on European Rural Development: some considerations about their use and potentiality ......................................... 1208

Javier Calatrava

PA115 Monitoring and control of an energetically efficient wood drying process.................................. 1217 Maria Martins, António Nogueira, Edgar Ataíde, Sandra Enoch, David Loureiro, Arnaldo Cruz Costa, Álvaro Ramalho, José Santos, Luís Pestana

PA118 The Kohonen Type Neural Network in the Process of Identification of Orchard Pests .............................................................................................................................................. 1225

Piotr Boniecki, Weres J., Krysztofiak A.and Mueller W.

PA132 Service delivery systems for natural resource stakeholders: Targeting, information and communication functions and policy considerations ................................................................ 1233

R. Ramirez and R.A. Lee

PA138 Variable Rate Application of Fertilizer in a Permanent Pasture – An Account of the First Year of Experimental Tests in Portugal ............................... 1241

José M. N. O. Peça, João M. P. R. Serrano, João Roma, José R. M. Silva, Jorge Mendes, Paulo Palma, Mário Carvalho, David Crespo, Casas Novas

PA151 Phomadidacte: a computer-aided training program for the assessment of phoma stem canker severity of oilseed rape..................................................................................................... 1246

Jean-Noël Aubertot, Y Sohbi, H. Brun, A. Penaud

PA153 Development of a stochastic dynamic model for ecological indicators’ prediction in changed Mediterranean agroecosystems of north-eastern Portugal .................. 1252

Mário Santos, Pedro Santos and João Alexandre Cabral

PA164 Longevity trait aspects in dairy production system ........................................................................... 1260 Elli Pärna, Heli Kiiman and Olev Savelic

PA169 Spreading Matter Management in France within Sigemo............................................................... 1268 Vincent Soulignac, François Gibold, François Pinet and Frédéric Vigier

PA171 A framework for a knowledge support system within a portal for rural e-Agricultural communities in Southern Africa ................................................................................... 1276

Albertus AK Buitendag and Jacobus S van der Walt

PA196 Determination of the limitante photosynthetic water potential in order to advise an irrigation modelling system in almond trees .................................................................... 1284

J. Gomes-Laranjo, L.F. Grácio, L. T. Dinis and J. P. Coutinho

PA203 Use of information and communication tools for social and institutional development : principles, analysis and limits. The ISIIMM project case .................................... 1290

Sergio Vallejo, Michel Soulié, Jean-Louis Couture, Yunona Videnina, Brigitte Février and Tom Soo

PA206 Towards an agricultural ontology in France : Contributions of the Farm Information Management project (GIEA) ............................................................................................. 1296

Thomas Brun, P. Poyet a, M. Bopp a, F. Vigier

PA230 A use-case driven domain analysis for milk production information systems........................... 1303 Andrea C. A. Borim, Antônio Mauro Saraiva and Carlos Alberto Ramos Pinto

PA231 The SIGIRA - Part I – Inventory of Small and Private Irrigation Schemes in Alentejo .................................................................................................................................. 1309

Isaurindo Oliveira, Marta S. Fabião, José Luís Teixeira, Duarte Carreira and Manuel Silva

PA236 Evaluation of photosynthesis modelling with neural networks ...................................................... 1317 Madeleine L. B. Puente de la Vega, Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Hernán Prieto Schmidt and Marcos Silveira Buckeridge


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PA242 Fuzzy model for soil compaction classification in conservation agriculture............................... 1323

Augusto G. Araújo, Antonio Mauro Saraiva and Marco T. C. Andrade

PA244 Decision Support System related to the Biodiesel Program in Brazil.......................................... 1329 Ronaldo Perez, Aziz G. Silva Júnior, Carlos Arthur da Silva, G. Machado, M. C. Borges, João F. A. Júnior , E. Carmélio, A. F. Teixeira

PA252 Using Mobile Devices to Improve Communication with Farmers in Common Irrigation Schemes .................................................................................................................. 1335

Gonçalo Gaiolas, João Maia, M. Mira da Silva and L. Mira da Silva

PA256 Agriculture and the IEEE 1451 Smart Transducer Interface Standards..................................... 1341 Fernando K. Tani and Carlos E. Cugnasca

PA259 Application of LonWorks Distributed Control Technology in Greenhouses ............................... 1349 Gilberto A. Pereira and Carlos E. Cugnasca

PA276 Analysis of Farmer´s Information – Decision System with Stochastic Linear Programming ............................................................................................................ 1355

Tomaz Dentinho and Luísa Calado

PA277 Information systems supporting education processes and research management in agricultural engineering.............................................................................................. 1362

W. Mueller, J. Weres, A. Krysztofiak, P. Boniecki

PA304 Managing Data Integration in Information Systems for heterogeneous Supply Chains.............................................................................................................................................. 1368

Th. Hannus, O. Poignée and G. Schiefer

PA306 Using fluorescence for the detection of nitrogen deficiency in potato plants .......................... 1372 Marie-Christine Bélanger, Alain A. Viau, Guy Samson and Martin Chamberland

PA313 A model for farm environment impact assessment .......................................................................... 1380 P. Spugnoli, A. Parenti and F. Baldi

PA323 Information system of plant genetic resources recording and evaluation for Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas L.).......................................................................................................... 1386

Ján Brindza, Peter Brindza, Dezider Tóth, Beáta Stehlíková, Andrej Urbanovič, Jana Holecyová, Janka Nôžková

PA327 Continuous Monitoring System for Wine Fermentation................................................................... 1392 Margarida Seixas, R. Morais, A. Valente and C. Couto

PA351 An integrated framework for clinical problem solving in agriculture ............................................ 1400 Silvia M.F.S. Massruhá, Sandra Sandri, Jacques Wainer and Marcelo A.B. Morandi

PA352 Solar Irradiation Forecast Model Using Time Series Analysis and Sky Images ..................... 1408 Jorge Casa Nova, José Boaventura Cunha and P. B. de Moura Oliveira

PA355 Influence of the ICT on the decision making in the Agriculture ..................................................... 1416 Šilerová Edita, Lang Karel, Havlíček Zdeněk

PA357 The Level of Information and Communication Technology Using and Information Sources of Growers in Greenhouse Production in Antalya Province, Turkey .......................... 1422

Orhan Ozcatalbas

PA369 Experimental Design to Calculate Young´s Modulus and Poisson Ratio of Bintje Potatoes............................................................................................................................. 1426

Park. K. J. B., Dal Fabbro. I. M., Cornejo. F. E. P., Park. K. J. and Oliveira R. A.

PA382 Management of metadata in an interdisciplinary environmental research project .................. 1434 C. Mückschel, G. A. Schachtel and W. Köhler


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PA384 GIS framework for intensive farming system management at the NW Portugal Nitrate Vulnerable Zone........................................................................................................... 1442

Joaquim Alonso, Jorge Agostinho, Juan Rey-Graña, Sónia Santos, Cláudio Paredes, Pedro Castro and Luís Martins

PA404 Synergies between collective cattle information systems and individual on farm information systems ......................................................................................................................... 1449

René Rognant

PA603 Prediction of Oyster Volume and Weight Using Machine Vision .................................................. 1453 S. Damar, Y. Yagiz, M. O. Balaban, S. Ural, ACM Oliveira and CA Crapo

PA318 Assessment of computerized information system in agriculture on the basis of multifactoral assessment procedure ................................................................................................ 1461

T.Rózsa and R. Szilágyi