Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems: An Object-Oriented and UML Approach (Hardcover, 2, 2014)

Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.- Part I. Concepts and Notations.- 1. Programming Paradigms.- 2. Basic Principles of the Object-Oriented Paradigm.- 3. Object-Oriented Concepts and Their UML Notation.- 4. Relationships.- 5. Use Cases and Actors.- 6. UML Diagrams.- 7. Design Patterns.- 8. Exercises.- 9. The Object Constraint Language (OCL).- 10. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Approach.- Part II. Applications.- 11. The Kraalingen Approach to Crop Simulation.- 12. The Plug and Play Architecture.- 13. Soil Water-Balance and Irrigation-Scheduling Models: a Case Study.- 14. Distributed Models.- 15. MDA with Oliva Nova.- 16. Answers.- Glossary.- References.