introduction chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) is cultivated on alarge scale in arid and semiarid environments. terminal drought and heat stress, among other abiotic and biotic stresses, are the major constraints of yield in most regions of chickpea production. the study of the effects of climate change could help to develop adaptation strategies to promote and stabilize crop yield. this research w...

The rate and extent of warming, along with impacts on rainfall distributions, are key determinants of agricultural impacts and will affect the success of adaptation strategies. The likely gradual unfolding of climate change should provide farmers in many regions and industries with sufficient time to utilise or develop adaptation strategies. Many of these strategies are likely to be based on fa...

technology acceptance model is a widely accepted model for explaining user behavior in technology adaptation. the coping model of user adaptation defines user adaptation as the cognitive and behavioral efforts performed by users to cope with significant it events that occur in their work environment. this paper based on the combination of the mentioned models proposes a model for explicating fa...

Most service adaptation solutions follow an anticipated approach: the adaptation control is based on predefined service-specific rules and strategies. These solutions will not work correctly in a context that was not taken into account by predefined rules and strategies even if a large context diversity was considered. This paper presents a solution based on a context-service common representat...

Climate variability has been evident on the Mongolian plateau in recent decades. Livelihood adaptation to climate variability is important for local sustainable development. This paper applies an analytical framework focused on adaptation, institutions, and livelihoods to study climate adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands. A household survey was designed and implemented in each of three broad...

In case-based reasoning systems, the case adaptation process is traditionally controlled by static libraries of hand-coded adaptation rules. This paper proposes a method for learning adaptation knowledge in the form of 6dapLaLioa strategies of the type developed and hand-coded by Kass [90] . Adaptation strategies differ from standard adaptation rules in that they encode general memory search pr...