Modeling management operations in agricultural production simulators
2003
Cros, Marie-Josee | Garcia, Frederick | Martin Clouaire, Roger | Rellier, Jean-Pierre | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
At the core of farm management lies the issue of work organization that concerns theconfiguration of activities in space and time, the material requirements for their execution(resources, sensors), and the anticipated means to adapt or react to contingencies. At a moremicro level work organization has also to deal with operational aspects: the conditions andmanner in which one or more people use purposefully information and tools in order to fulfill thespecific objective attached to a primitive operation. This paper argues in favor of an investigationapproach of farm management based on a simulation model of the decision maker's behavior, thecourse of implementing operations and the interaction of the above processes with thebiophysical ones and external events linked, in particular, to climatic factors. Simulation of themanagement process can be of great help in conceiving new production systems or in improvingtheir efficiency, robustness and acceptability. The paper outlines the specific modeling needswhen the decision-making behavior and work process play a central role in the intended study. Itproposes a conceptualization of the structure and behavior of the management related aspects ofa an agricultural production system.
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