\'Etude longitudinale d'une proc\'edure de mod\'elisation de connaissances en mati\`ere de gestion du territoire agricole

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Rosa project, a multidisciplinary effort over five years to develop a knowledge-based system for modeling and comparing farm spatial organizations, emphasizing formalization of agronomical knowledge.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive framework and methodology for formalizing agronomical knowledge through a collaborative, multidisciplinary knowledge building process.

Findings

Successful development of a formalized model of farm spatial organization

Integration of agronomists and computer scientists in knowledge formalization

Documentation of the knowledge building process and modeling steps

Abstract

This paper gives an introduction to this issue, and presents the framework and the main steps of the Rosa project. Four teams of researchers, agronomists, computer scientists, psychologists and linguists were involved during five years within this project that aimed at the development of a knowledge based system. The purpose of the Rosa system is the modelling and the comparison of farm spatial organizations. It relies on a formalization of agronomical knowledge and thus induces a joint knowledge building process involving both the agronomists and the computer scientists. The paper describes the steps of the modelling process as well as the filming procedures set up by the psychologists and linguists in order to make explicit and to analyze the underlying knowledge building process.