Agricultural knowledge is a special kind of domain knowledge, and is a significant basis for agricultural knowledge-based intelligent information service system. This paper presents main results of our ongoing project of Agricultural Knowledge Processing and Applications (AKPA): 1) An agriculture-specific ontology, 2) A method for agricultural knowledge acquisition and representation, 3) An exp...

service oriented enterprises (soes) are subject to constant change and variation. in this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. we construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

customer satisfaction is the most important element for developing and sustaining organizational priorities and practices. thus, we examined farmers’ overall satisfaction with agricultural extension services and its determinants using data collected from 150 beneficiary farmers in north west ethiopia. the findings show that about 55% of the interviewees were satisfied whereas 45% of them were d...

Introduction Smallholder agricultural development in developing countries faces challenges and constraints related to persistent food insecurity, food price volatility, food safety, and sustainability concerns, but also is experiencing increased opportunities arising from growing domestic and global agricultural market demand (McCullough, Pingali, and Stamoulis 2008; World Bank 2006, 2007). Suc...

Inappropriate water governance, which has been known as a variable to explain the water crisis in many parts of the world, needs to examine the institutional structures and required reforms. In the present study, the effectiveness and possibility of applying of five rural local organizations, as intermediate organizations for water resources protection in Anar and Rafsanjan areas, Kerman provin...

There are considerable debates about the existence, nature, and application of entrepreneurship within the public sector. The present survey analyzes the application of entrepreneurship in Iranian public sector organizations. For this purpose, the situation of entrepreneurship within the head offices of Iranian public service organizations was considered. Also, based on McKeinsy and Daft’s fram...

this paper examines the effects of agricultural land productivity improvement on the economy of iran assuming that the domestic and international trade liberalizations will open up the opportunities to expand market access. a 25-sector computable general equi-librium model was developed to simulate the effects of this policy. the simulation results indicate that enhancing agricultural land prod...

The paper mentioned using SOA framework and the technology of Web Service, aiming at the problem of "Information Isolated Island", specifically for rural information resources, an agricultural information service platform is constructed based on SOA and Web Service. This platform integrates distributed systems and service platforms and it deals with agricultural information by cooperative proce...