AI recommender system with ML for agricultural research

TitleAI recommender system with ML for agricultural research
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsPeters DC, Savoy H, Ramirez G, Huang C.
JournalIEEE IT Professional
Volume22
Pagination29-32
Date Published05/01/2020
ARIS Log Number371135
Abstract

We describe an AI recommender system (RS) with machine learning to harness past user choices and large volumes of data, yet account for changes in weather and management decisions characteristic of agricultural systems. Our goal is to maximize the use of data relevant to solving agricultural problems and improve the efficiency of the scientific workforce while also improving the accuracy of estimates of the amount of food produced. Our example shows how the RS learns data analysis choices from user behavior for predicting agricultural production responses to rainfall and learns to identify classes of agroecosystem responses to alternative climate scenarios. We account for changes in relationships using spatial and temporal statistics. The RS provides a powerful approach to make use of the large amounts of data and scientific expertise in the agricultural enterprise to predict agroecosystem dynamics under changing environmental conditions.

URLfiles/bibliography/20-037.pdf
DOI10.1109/MITP.2020.2986125