Daoliang Li & Chunjiang Zhao 
Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II, Volume 3 
The Second IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2008), October 18-20, 2008, Beijing, China

The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA2008), in Beijing, China, 2008. The conference on the Second IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA 2008) is cooperatively sponsored and organized by the China Agricultural University (CAU), the National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture (NERCITA), the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE), International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Beijing Society for Information Technology in Agriculture, China and Beijing Research Center for Agro-products Test and Farmland Inspection, China. The related departments of China’s central government bodies like: Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Education and the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, etc. have greatly contributed and supported to this event. The conference is as good platform to bring together scientists and researchers, agronomists and information engineers, extension servers and entrepreneurs from a range of disciplines concerned with impact of Information technology for sustainable agriculture and rural development. The representatives of all the supporting organizations, a group of invited speakers, experts and researchers from more than 15 countries, such as: the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Germany, Greece, Australia, Estonia, Japan, Korea, India, Iran, Nigeria, Brazil, China, etc.

Table of Content

THE RESEARCH OF COMPUTER AIDED FARM MACHINERY DESIGNING METHOD BASED ON ERGONOMICS.- ESTIMATING THE PADDY SPIKE YIELD USING FRACTAL DIMENSION.- STUDY ON WEB-BASED TOOL FOR REGIONAL AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION USING AJAX.- DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL FOR DISSEMINATINGAGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION BASED ONSIGNALING THEORY.- TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF A BLDC STARTER/GENERATORSYSTEM USED IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES.- DESIGN OF SINGLE-PHASE POWER METER BASED ONETHERNET.- AUTOMATIC ASSEMBLY OF COMBINED CHECKINGFIXTURE FOR AUTO-BODY COMPONENTS BASED ONFIXTURE ELEMENTS LIBRARIES.- RESEARCHES OF OPTIMUM LEAF AREA INDEX DYNAMICMODELS FOR RAPE(BRASSICA NAPUS L.).- STUDY ON AGING AND DAMAGE EVALUATION SYSTEMOF SEEPAGE CONTROL CANAL WITH CONCRETE.- THE MECHANISMS OF AGRICULTURAL RISKSMANAGEMENT AND ITS RESEARCHING FRAME.- FOREST PEST OCCURRENCE PREDICTIONCA-MARKOV MODEL.- ECONOMIC METHODS OF GINGER PROTEASE#x0027;SEXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION.- DETERMINATION OF IRON IN MILK POWDERMICROWAVE DIGESTION AND FLAME ATOMICABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY.- EFFICIENT BAR-CODE WATERMARK SYSTEM TO PROTECTAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS INFORMATION ANDCOPYRIGHT.- EGG VOLUME AND SURFACE AREA CALCULATIONSBASED ON MACHINE VISION.- ADVANCES IN STUDIES ON NATURAL PRESERVATIVESFOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.- A COMPARISON OF LINEAR REGRESSION METHODS FORTHE DETECTION OF APPLE INTERNAL QUALITY BY NEARINFRARED SPECTROSCOPY.- COST#x002D;BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF HACCP IMPLEMENTATION IN THE CHINESE SLAUGHTERING AND MEAT PRODUCTPROCESSING INDUSTRY.- STUDY OF APPLICATION OF THZ TIME DOMAINSPECTROSCOPY IN FOOD SAFET.- NONDESTRUCTIVE DETECTION OF THE INTERNALQUALITY OF APPLE USING X-RAY AND MACHINE VISION.- VALIDATION OF AN HPLC-DAD-ESI/MS/MS METHOD FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF GREEN TEAS.- IDENTIFICATION OF TRACEABILITY BARCODE BASED ON PHASE CORRELATION ALGORITHM.- STUDIES ON THE RAPID METHODS FOR EVALUATING SEED VIGOR OF SWEET CORN.- FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ADOPTION OF FOOD SAFETY CONTROLS BY THE MEXICAN MEAT INDUSTRY.- LEVEL OF ADOPTION OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTO THE MEXICAN PORK INDUSTRY.- IMPLEMENTATION OF HACCP IN THE MEXICAN POULTRY PROCESSING INDUSTRY.- DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PRODUCTION AREA OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM BASED ON EMBEDDED SYSTEM.- APPLICATION OF ISO22000 AND FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS (FMEA) FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING OF POULTRY PRODUCTS.- TRACEABILITY OF BEEF PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY IN FRANCE.- CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVEMENT QUALITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES.- KEES: A PRACTICAL ICT SOLUTION FOR RURAL AREAS.- A REFLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION-BASED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN GENERAL RURAL CHINA AND FARMERS#x0027; ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION AS THE ENTRY POINT OF ICTS.- AN ANALYSIS OF ICT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FRAMEWORK IN CHINESE RURAL AREAS.- FARMERS#x0027; INFORMATION USAGE INTENTION IN CHINA BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL.- STUDY AND ANALYSIS ON TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION NETWORK OF RURAL POWER GRID.- RESEARCH AND DESIGN OF RURAL INFORMATION SERVICE PLATFORM BASED ON SOA.- STUDY ON RURAL INFORMATION AND FARMERS#x0027; INFORMATION QUALITY TRAINING MODELS–SHIJIAZHUANG CITY AS AN EXAMPLE.- STUDY THE EFFECT OF URBAN ECOSYSTEM TO FLOATING POPULATION.- A STUDY ON THE DOCUMENT INFORMATION SERVICE OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY FOR AGRICULTURAL SCI-TECH INNOVATION IN CHINA.- RESEARCH ON ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR RURALINFORMATIZATION LEVEL BASED ON AHP.- The Development and Preliminary Application Ofplant Quarantine Remote Teaching System Inchina.- Soa Based Integration Information Serviceplatform Strategy In Rural Informatization.- Study on the Developmental Strategy of Countyregion Economy Informationization in China.- Design of System Scheme and Operationmechanism on Agricultural Science #x0026;Technology Information Service System #x2018;110#x2019;.- Information Service System For Small Forestowners.- Research on Decision-Making Support of Chineserural Land Tenure Information System.- Development Strategy for Mobilecommunications Market in Chinese Rural Area.- Development and Policy Proposals of Ruralinformatization in China.- Control of Co2 Inside Australian Grains Free Aircarbon Dioxide Enrichment (Agface) Facility.- A Two-Phase Metaheuristic for Farm Workscheduling.- Development of A General Principle Solution Forisoagrinet Compliant Networking System Components in Animal Husbandry.- Applications of Zigbee Wireless Technology Tomeasurement System in Grain Storage.- The Design and Realization of Embedded Wirelessdata Collection System.- Application of Support Vector Machine Based on Time Series For Soil Moisture and Nitratenitrogen Content Prediction.- Application of Projection Pursuit Model in Soilevaluation of Conservation Tillage.- The Architecture of Information Fusion System Ingreenhouse Wireless Sensor Network Based on Multi-Agent.- Study on Aotf-Based Near-Infrared Spectroscopyanalysis System of Farm Produce Quality.- The New Fiber-Optic Temperature Sensor Forgreenhouse.- Modeling and Designing of A Nonlineartemperature-Humidity Controller Using Inmushroom-Drying Machine.- Numerical Simulation of Natural Ventilation Intypical Piggery of South-East China.- The Design of Rural Power Network Powerquality Monitoring and Analysis Platform Onlabview.- Development of an Optical Device to Investigatechlorophyll Content of Tomato Leaves.- Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy of Mung Beanleaves.- Detection Of Volatile Oil Content Of Single-Grainzanthoxylum Seed Based on Nir.- Key Technologies in Wsn-Based Cotton Field Soilmoisture Monitoring System.- Design of Bee Products Quality Monitoringinformation Service Platform.- Internet Usage In The Fresh Produce Supply Chainin China.- Practical Use Of It In Traceability In Food Value Chains.- Fractal Feature Analysis Of Beef Marblingpatterns.- Narrow Band Ratio Vegetation Indices and Itsrelationships With Rice Agronomic Variables.- A Model to Predict Shelf-Life Loss Ofhorticultural Produce During Distribution Withfluctuated Temperature and Vehicle Vibration.- Study On Identification System Of Maize Seedsvarieties Based On Machine Vision.- Study on Detection Technology of Pesticideresidues in Vegetables Based on Nir.- On-Line Sorting Maturity of Cherry Tomato Bymachine Vision.- On-Line Detection of Defects on Fruit by Machinevision Systems Based on Three-Color-Cameras Systems.- A Collection Scheme for Tracing Information of Pig Safety Production.- A Solution on Identification and Rearing Files Insmallhold Pig Farming.- Research of Uncertainty Reasoning in Pineapple Disease Identification System.- Study on Full Supply Chain Quality and Safetytraceability Systems For Cereal And Oilproducts.- Rfid Based Traceability System For Sheepbreeding.- Study on Carrier Material of Immobilization Acetylcholinesterase For Biosensor in Detectionof Organophosphorus Pesticide Residues.- Traceability System For Agricultural Productsbased on Rfid and Mobile Technology.