Decision Support Systems in Agribusiness

Automation Agents specifically oriented for decision support of agribusiness applications are proposed. The proposed Automation Agents may be directly embedded in modern Decision Support Systems (DSS) and are based on the following design approaches: E-Learning Agent, Monitoring Agent, Fault Diagnosis Agent, Weather Information Agent, E-Commerce Agent and Logistics Agent. Moreover, an Operator Agent is proposed, that exploits information gathered from all the aforementioned Automation Agents in order to make decisions regarding the proposal of possible scenarios to the farmer. The Intelligent Agents are integrated through OPC and ActiveX communication architectures to modern Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems.