DHIVINE_PLOS1

The DHIVINE model for Linux platform. It simulates management practices in viticulture. The model comes with the corresponding simulation engine: DIESE. <br><br> Many farming-system studies have investigated the design and evaluation of crop-management practices with respect to economic performance and reduction in environmental impacts. In contrast, little research has been devoted to analysing these practices in terms of matching the recurrent context-dependent demand for resources (labour in particular) with those available on the farm. This paper presents Dhivine, a simulation model of operational management of grape production at the vineyard scale. Particular attention focuses on representing a flexible plan, which organises activities temporally, the resources available to the vineyard manager and the process of scheduling and executing the activities. The model relies on a generic production-system ontology used in several agricultural production domains. The types of investigations that the model supports are briefly illustrated. The enhanced realism of the production-management situations simulated makes it possible to examine and understand properties of resource-constrained work-organisation strategies and possibilities for improving them. <br><br>Make extraction from archive (tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz) in DHIVINE_PLOS1 created in your home. See then READ_ME_gen <br>