Case Study on Environmental Scanning
This case study shows how environmental scanning is applied to Egyptian wheat crop production. Note the use of different techniques to deal with the uncertainty of the various environmental factors in producing and marketing wheat crops.
3. Solution Proposed
The main purpose of this research is to develop an intelligent Environmental Scanning Approach (IESA) that are efficient and effective enough to deal appropriately with long-term complexity and uncertainty. IESA depends on domain experts' judgments, their justifications, and modeling capabilities.
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Fig. 1. Conceptual framework for the IESA |
Fig. 2. Phase 1. Ontology Building |
As shown in the previous figure, the developed IESA framework. Below we will explain methodology of the developed IESA, its inputs and output, and finally the phases' flowchart. Note that the developed IESA approach was implemented and tested using the developed IESA tool with C# programming language and XML (the reader interested in the code can email the authors).