AgriEnt: A Knowledge-Based Web Platform for Managing Insect Pests of Field Crops

In the agricultural context, there is a great diversity of insects and diseases that affect crops. Moreover, the amount of data available on data sources such as the Web regarding these topics increase every day. This fact can represent a problem when farmers want to make decisions based on this large and dynamic amount of information. This work presents AgriEnt, a knowledge-based Web platform focused on supporting farmers in the decision-making process concerning crop insect pest diagnosis and management. AgriEnt relies on a layered functional architecture comprising four layers: the data layer, the semantic layer, the web services layer, and the presentation layer. This platform takes advantage of ontologies to formally and explicitly describe agricultural entomology experts’ knowledge and to perform insect pest diagnosis. Finally, to validate the AgriEnt platform, we describe a case study on diagnosing the insect pest affecting a crop. The results show that AgriEnt, through the use of the ontology, has proven to produce similar answers as the professional advice given by the entomology experts involved in the evaluation process. Therefore, this platform can guide farmers to make better decisions concerning crop insect pest diagnosis and management.

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