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An Ontology-Based Decision Support System for the Management of Home Gardens

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Home gardens or family gardens are the oldest cultivation systems used in the world. The home garden has different goals which gone from leisure and recreation to self-consumption, healthy production, family savings and community integration. Home garden management has become a knowledge problem since the community needs to know what vegetables can be planted as well as the activities that must be performed according to different parameters such as illumination, harvest time, irrigation time, among others. In this sense, there is a clear need for new mechanisms in which experts’ knowledge are integrated to support decision making in the context of the home garden. In this work, we present a DSS focused on the management of home gardens. This system takes advantages of semantic technologies, more specifically ontologies, to model the main activities related to the home garden management such as creation, irrigation, transplanting and harvesting. The DSS proposed was evaluated in the context of medicinal plants and vegetables obtaining encouraging results.

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  1. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Avenida 25 de Julio, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Vanessa Vergara-Lozano, José Medina-Moreira, Mayra Garzón-Goya, Andrea Sinche-Guzmán & Martha Bucaram-Leverone

  2. Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Avenida Juan Tanca Marengo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Christian Rochina

  3. Universidad de Guayaquil, Av. Delta, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    José Medina-Moreira

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  1. Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  2. Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Katty Lagos-Ortiz

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    Martha Bucaram-Leverone

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Vergara-Lozano, V., Medina-Moreira, J., Rochina, C., Garzón-Goya, M., Sinche-Guzmán, A., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (2017). An Ontology-Based Decision Support System for the Management of Home Gardens. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67283-0_4

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