Paris, 22 March 2004


EFITA newsletter / 151 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


Archives of our newsletters and AGRIMMEDIA seminars
- 6 years of archives of our newsletter in French (1998-2003)
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- Archives of our 29 AGRIMMEDIA seminars
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Papers published in New Ag International in 2002 and 2004 about ICT in European agriculture
See: http://www.acta-informatique.fr/apps/accesbase/dbsommaire.asp?d=5586&t=0&uid=57305290&sid=57305290&idk=1


Universal Business Language (presented at the 29 th AGRIMMEDIA Seminar – 4 March 2004)
The purpose of the OASIS UBL TC is to develop a standard library of XML business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc.) by modifying an already existing library of XML schemas to incorporate the best features of other existing XML business libraries. The TC will then design a mechanism for the generation of context-specific business schemas through the application of transformation rules to the common UBL source library. UBL is intended to become an international standard for electronic commerce freely available to everyone without licensing or other fees.
Contact : Rémy MARCHAND
mailto:remy.marchand@adesium.com


Call for papers for EWDA-04
Papers are invited for a workshop on "Decision Problems in Agriculture and Natural Resources" at Silsoe Research Institute, UK, on 27-29 September 2004 devoted to all aspects of management decisions in those areas and the research issues that arise. Both theoretical issues and application results are welcome. Topics covered by the workshop may include, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
- Dynamic programming
- Bayesian networks and decision graphs
- Markov decision processes
- Linear programming
- Stochastic programming
- Parameter estimation and knowledge acquisition
- Learning from data
- Descriptive and normative decision tree techniques
- Agent modelling and simulation
This workshop is organised under the recently established EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) Working Group for Operations Research in Agriculture and Forest Management and continues a series begun at the EFITA conference in 2001:
- Symposium at EFITA 2001 on Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty in Agriculture and Natural Resources
Montpellier, France, June 19, 2001
See: http://www.prodstyr.ihh.kvl.dk/efita/symp2001.htm
- First European Workshop on Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty in Agriculture and Natural Resources
Toulouse, France, September 19-20, 2002
See: http://www.inra.fr/bia/T/decision/EWDA02/welcome.html
- Symposium at EFITA 2003 on Model Based Decision Support Systems
Debrecen; Hungary, June 5-9, 2003
See: http://www.date.hu/efita2003
See: http://www.date.hu/efita2003/centre/index.php#13
See: http://www.euro-online.org/
See http://www.sri.bbsrc.ac.uk/science/bmag/EWDA-04.html
Contact: David PARSONS
mailto:david.parsons@bbsrc.ac.uk


Moses (Jewish joke)
Moses went to the Greeks and said:
"I have commandments"
They said "What does it say?"
He said "Thou shalt not make graven images or statues"
They said "Forget it."

Moses went to the Cannanites and said:
"I have commandments"
They said "What does it say?"
He said "Thou shalt not steal"
They said "Forget it."

Moses went to the Babylonians and said:
"I have commandments"
They said "What does it say?"
He said "Thou shalt not murder"
They said "Forget it."

Moses went to the Romans and said:
"I have commandments"
They said "What does it say?"
He said "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife"
They said "Forget it."

Moses went to the Jews and said:
"I have commandments"
They said "How much does it cost?"
He said "Nothing, they are free"
They said "Very good... We'll take 10."
Contact: Sylvie MASSELIN-SYLVIN
mailto:masselin@acta-informatique.fr


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