FUZZY MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING FOR LONG CANE PRUNING - A SYSTEM FOR STANDARD AND COMPLEX VINE CONFIGURATIONS

Section I of this article presents the agronomic and technical purpose s involved in vine pruning and the decision model used to simulate the pruner's reasoning (fuzzy multicriteria decision making). Section II describes the method used for the choice of the best aggregation opera tor. Section III describes the model decision which is used to make au tomatic decision on complex vine configurations. Section IV presents t he results: the model was performed on training set made of 140 standa rd pruning cases, 69.4% of similarity were observed between the decisi on model and the expert. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.