Examinando por Autor "Hernandez, Jorge E."

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  • Parte de libro
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    Dealing with Uncertainties in IT Solutions for Agriculture
    (Springer, Cham, 2025) Antonelli, Leandro; Collazos, Cesar; Zarate, Pascale; Agredo Delgado, Vanessa; Camilleri, Guy; Fernández, Alejandro; Hernandez, Jorge E.; Torres, Diego
    Technology is essential for the improvement and efficiency of activities in the agricultural environment. Nevertheless, farmers and IT’s worlds are distant. Usually, IT services fail to provide the correct solution and farmers are reluctant to incorporate new IT advances. IT teams need to acquire agricultural knowledge and language in order to communicate, to reduce the distance, and cooperate. Nevertheless, during this process and particularly, in agriculture, there are many uncertainties. If they are not clearified, it will not be possible to provide the right IT solution. These un-certainties are translated as a lack of precision in the requirements specifica-tions. Sometimes, it is as easy as elicit more information from the stake-holders to improve the specification. In some other situations, the stakeholders have different points of view and they need to reach a concen-sus. These uncertainties are hard to identify. IT teams and farmers must speak the same technical and specific language and the IT team needs a complete and exhaustive specification about how software applications must react. Agriculture is a biological environment with many rules and de-cisions that are not easy to make explicit. Therefore, it is important to in-volve a group of farmers as with complementary and different point of view. Thus, this article proposes an approach to deal with uncertainties in order to provide the unambiguous and complete specification. The approach relies on capturing knowledge through scenarios. It consists of three main steps to obtain the scenarios: (i) a collaborative knowledge acquisition, (ii) scenarios description and analysis, and (iii) group decision support.
  • Documento de conferencia
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    Semantic Support for Scenarios to Improve Communication in Agribusiness
    (2019) Antonelli, Leandro; Torres, Diego; Hozikian, Mariángeles; Hernandez, Jorge E.
    Organizations produce and exchange a lot of critical information to obtain good results. Systems developed in different domains are adapted to be integrated when they need to exchange information. Food and agribusiness are not the exceptions, they are pioneers in the use of massive data and collaboration. One of the biggest challenges to communicate software systems is analyzing their colliding context. Every software system relies on its own context, with its rules, dynamic, and language. It is a big effort to have a complete understanding of the composed domain. Scenarios are well-known tools to describe domains and are commonly described with text. When Scenarios are built by different stakeholders it is extremely important to review them in order to unify their description. Thus, the improved Scenarios with a unified point of view make it possible an analysis to identify the relationship between two different domains. This analysis is the key to design a mechanism to exchange information. This paper proposes a semantic definition of Scenarios and a set of queries to identify issues in the Scenarios and improve their quality. We also provide a wiki platform to implement the semantic support and the queries.