Farms of Tomorrow Revisited: Community Supported Farms - FarmSupported Communities

Scalable Farms

Algorithmic skeletons intend to simplify parallel programming by providing a higher level of abstraction compared to the usual message passing. Task and data parallel skeletons can be distinguished. In the present paper, we will consider several approaches to implement one of the most classical task parallel skeleton, namely the farm, and compare them w.r.t. scalability, overhead, potential bot...

Creating Viable Living Linkages Between Farms and Communities

Body farms

The laudable intentions of science to research the effects of different variables on the ability to predict the time death interval accurately have become embroiled onmultiple complex fronts. The colloquial and persistent use of the term ‘body farm’, the rhetoric that surrounds media reporting, and the sometimes distasteful display of the subjects, detract significantly from any scientific meri...

Component and Service Farms

Software components and web services are software building blocks that are used in the composition of modern software applications. They both provide functionalities that require to be advertised by registries in order to be discovered and reused during software building processes1 [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Building or evolving existing software implies assembling software components. This task ...

Are China’s Farms Growing?

China’s agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China’s policy is to encourage the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale. A question that arises is: Are China ’s farms growing? The goal of the present paper is to determine whether large farms in China have emerged or if farms remain small. To meet this goal, we systematically do...