This study uses one year (1989-90) of households survey data covering all livestock transactions and input expenditures to examine the equity impacts of the Senegalese livestock policy and the factors affecting purchases and sales of small ruminants in three study zones of the Senegalese Peanut...

Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zum relativ neuen Konzept der Pfadbrechung. Auf Basis von Simulationsrechnungen mit dem agentenbasierten Agrarstrukturmodell AgriPoliS und qualitativen Daten von Stakeholdern aus dem Bereich der Milchproduktion werden Aussagen zu möglichen...

This thesis addresses three major issues in data mining regarding feature subset selection in large dimensionality domains, plausible reconstruction of incomplete data in cross-sectional applications, and forecasting univariate time series. For the automated selection of an optimal subset of...

Improving the predictability of airline schedules in the National Airspace System (NAS) has been a constant endeavor, particularly as system delays grow with ever-increasing demand. Airline schedules need to be resistant to perturbations in the system including Ground Delay Programs (GDPs) and...