Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: V. Merunka Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: BORM - overview of the methodology and case study of the agrarian information system Abstract: 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 modeling techniques. Keywords: Business Object Relation Modelling (BORM), object-oriented approach, process-based analysis, information system development, business processes, requirement engineering Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 397-406 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5421-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5421-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5421-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: K. Charvát Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: S. Kafka Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: Z. Trávníček Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Why interoperability for agriculture and tourism Abstract: 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. Keywords: interoperability, Web services, GIS, e commerce Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 407-411 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5423-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5423-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5423-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Jarolímek Author-Workplace-Name: Czech university of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: J. Vaněk Author-Workplace-Name: Czech university of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: R. Brázda Author-Workplace-Name: Czech university of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic Title: The AGRIS - www portal for agrarian sector and countryside (www.agris.cz) Abstract: 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, students, teachers, consultants and other users. Keywords: ICT, Internet, portal, agriculture, agrarian sector, information, services Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 412-415 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5424-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5424-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5424-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Gnip Author-Workplace-Name: *MJM Group a.s., Litovel, Czech Republic **Lesprojekt služby s.r.o, Kostelec nad Labem, Czech Republic Author-Name: K. Charvát Author-Workplace-Name: *MJM Group a.s., Litovel, Czech Republic **Lesprojekt služby s.r.o, Kostelec nad Labem, Czech Republic Title: Management of zones in precision farming Abstract: 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 economic calculations for the common user involved in the precision farming management. Keywords: Precision Farming, PREFARM, Map Server, GIS, GPS, open source Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 416-418 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5425-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5425-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5425-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Gnip Author-Workplace-Name: Help Service Remote sensing, s r.o., Benešov u Prahy, Czech Republic Author-Name: S. Kafka Author-Workplace-Name: Help Service Remote sensing, s r.o., Benešov u Prahy, Czech Republic Title: Using technology of data collection and data processing in precision farming Abstract: 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. Keywords: Precision Farming, MapServer, GIS, PREFARM, data collection Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 419-426 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5426-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5426-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5426-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A. Veselý Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Neural networks in data mining Abstract: 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 statistical methods. In data mining, new methods besides statistical are used. These new methods have their origin in artificial intelligence. They look for unknown and unexpected relations, which can be uncovered by exploring of data in database. In the article, a utilization of modern methods of data mining is described and especially the methods based on neural networks theory are pursued. The advantages and drawbacks of applications of multiplayer feed forward neural networks and Kohonen's self-organizing maps are discussed. Kohonen's self-organizing map is the most promising neural data-mining algorithm regarding its capability to visualize high-dimensional data. Keywords: association rules, data mining, decision trees, genetic algorithm, Kohonen's self-organizing maps, multilayered feedforward neural networks Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 427-431 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5427-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5427-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5427-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Z. Trávníček Author-Workplace-Name: *Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic **Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: M. Kavka Author-Workplace-Name: *Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic **Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Utilisation of the GPS information technology for the control of providing the EU support oriented on less favoured areas (LFA) Abstract: 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 practical utilisation in agriculture. GPS is practically being used in agriculture in the system of precise agriculture and our experts belong among the world-wide recognized specialists in this direction. The GPS utilisation is additionally offered at the allocation of LFAs as well as at marking the places suitable for agro-environmental measures. In combination with the IACS system and its databases and registers, it is functionally and operatively useful at the land control of fulfilling the conditions of support programmes. Keywords: information technologies, Global Position System (GPS), Less Favoured Areas (LFA), Integrated Agricultural Control System, agriculture land policy Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 432-438 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5428-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5428-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5428-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: D. Vaněček Author-Workplace-Name: University of South Bohemia, Èeské Budìjovice, Czech Republic Author-Name: D. Kaláb Author-Workplace-Name: University of South Bohemia, Èeské Budìjovice, Czech Republic Title: Logistics in agricultural production Abstract: 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 as basic stones and by means of their combination, the volume of material flow and its structure during one year periods is possible to calculate. The advantage of the proposed method is a fast finding out of necessary data and possibility of taking into account some specific conditions of the investigated enterprises. Keywords: material flow, material handling, logistics in agriculture Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 439-443 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5429-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5429-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0008.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5429-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: I. Vrana Title: E-Commerce in agriculture, and food industry Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 444-446 Volume: 49 Issue: 9 Year: 2003 DOI: 10.17221/5430-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5430-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200309-0009.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:49:y:2003:i:9:id:5430-AGRICECON