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dc.contributor.authorEngel, Alejandroen_US
dc.contributor.authorBassanezi, Rodneyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-13T01:58:53Zen_US
dc.date.available2007-09-13T01:58:53Zen_US
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier.citationKybernetes: The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics 26N3 (1997) 306-315en_US
dc.identifier.issn0368-492Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1850/4691en_US
dc.descriptionRIT community members may access full-text via RIT Libraries licensed databases: http://library.rit.edu/databases/
dc.description.abstractPresents an optimal strategy for managing crocodile farms. The strategy is illustrated with the case study of Caiman Crocodilus Yacare of the farm Coocrijapan. However, the strategy can be easily transferred to other farms, once sufficient data on their own crocodile stock is gathered. The main advantage of the ideas developed is that they deal with just one parameter: the break-even point of the process. The underlying assumption of having a single parameter is that there is no seasonal change in prices; that is, the unitary price of food (say, per kilogram) and the unitary price of crocodile hide (say, per square centimetre) remain approximately constant in some currency. This may or may not be true in the local currency of the country that hosts the farm. With this assumption, dimensionless quantities for profit and return are found.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Limiteden_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesvol. 26en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesno. 3en_US
dc.subjectCyberneticsen_US
dc.subjectFarmingen_US
dc.subjectModellingen_US
dc.titleA cybernetical strategy for optimal farming: on the growth of Caiman Crocodilus Yacareen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03684929710163191


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