@article{publications22458,
          volume = {148},
           month = {October},
          author = {Marion Robert and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Dury and Alban Thomas and Olivier Therond and Muddu Sekhar and Shrinivas Badiger and Laurent Ruiz and Jacques Eric Bergez},
           title = {CMFDM: A methodology to guide the design of a conceptual model of farmers' decision-making processes},
       publisher = {Applied Science Publishers},
         journal = {Agricultural Systems},
           pages = {86--94},
            year = {2016},
        keywords = {Decision modeling, Farming systems, Water management, Case-based analysis, Cognitive task analysis, UML},
             url = {https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22458/},
        abstract = {The agricultural research community offers languages and approaches to model farmers' decision-making processes but does not often clearly detail the steps necessary to build an agent model underlying farmers' decision-making processes. We propose an original and readily applicable methodology for modelers to guide data acquisition and analysis, incorporate expert knowledge, and conceptualize decision-making processes in farming systems using a software engineering language to support the development of the model. We propose a step-by-step approach that combines decision-making analysis with a modeling approach inspired by cognitive sciences and software-development methods. The methodology starts with case-based analysis to study and determine the complexity of decision-making processes and provide tools to obtain a generic and conceptual model of the decisional agent in the studied farming system. A generic farm representation and decision diagrams are obtained from cross-case analysis and are modeled with Unified Modeling Language. We applied the methodology to a research question on water management in an emerging country (India). Our methodology bridges the gap between field observations and the design of the decision model. It is a useful tool to guide modelers in building decision model in farming system.}
}