A Decision Support System for Planning and Controlling Agricultural Production with a Decentralized Management Structure

This paper presents some work done by the authors as part of a project aimed at the construction of a model of Polish agriculture [1]. The project has been undertaken by an interdisciplinary team composed of researchers from the Systems Research Institute, the Institute of Agricultural Economy, the Institute for Rural and Agricultural Development, in close cooperation with the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture. The project represents a joint case study performed with the cooperation of the Food and Agriculture Program and the System and Decision Sciences Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Due to limitations on the size of the paper, only a brief outline is presented here. Details of the research may be found in [1],[2],[3].