ISHS Acta Horticulturae 276: II International Symposium on Computer Modelling in Fruit Research and Orchard Management
vPETE: A PHENOLOGICAL MODEL BUILT FOR INTEGRATION INTO SOFTWARE SYSTEMS |
| Authors: | K.G. Currans, B.A. Croft |
| Abstract:
vPETE was conceived as a means to better integrate a phenological model into an expert system for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in deciduous tree fruits. We discuss vPETE as an insect phenology model driven by degree-days via an operating system technique called a "PIPE" (Ritchie and Thompson 1974). A distributed delay routine is the basis of vPETE, which configures the life cycle of an organism and expands it for new generations. vPETE simplifies phenological modeling in larger software systems and is adaptable to many systems. Operating system techniques used by vPETE are dynamic memory allocation, stream input/output, and multitasking. All output from vPETE is communicated to a graphical display program or file. No human interaction is performed. Versions of vPETE run on parallel computing platforms. | |
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