Title
A survey of the applications of Bayesian networks in agriculture
Date Issued
01 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of São Paulo - Av. Trabalhador São-carlense
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The application of machine learning to agriculture is currently experiencing a “surge of interest” from the academic community as well as practitioners from industry. This increased attention has produced a number of differing approaches that use varying machine learning frameworks. It is arguable that Bayesian Networks are particularly suited to agricultural research due to their ability to reason with incomplete information and incorporate new information. Bayesian Networks are currently underrepresented in the machine learning applied to agriculture research literature, and to date there are no survey papers that currently centralize the state of the art. The aim of this paper is rectify the lack of a survey paper in this area by providing a self-contained resource that will: centralize the current state of the art, document the historical progression of Bayesian Networks in agriculture and indicate possible future lines of research as well as providing an introduction to Bayesian Networks for researchers who are new to the area.
Start page
29
End page
42
Volume
65
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85029952872
Source
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
ISSN of the container
09521976
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by FAPESP grants: 2011/20451-1 , 2011/227498 , 2013/12191-5 , 2015/14228-9 , and CNPq grant: 302645/2015-2 . The authors would like to thank the referees for their suggestions and criticisms.
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