A weighted CSP approach for solving spatio-temporal farm planning problems

Applications regarding the crop allocation problem (CAP) are required tools for agricultural advisors to design more ecient farming systems. Despite this issue has been extensively treated by agronomists in the past, few methods tackle the crop allocation problem considering both the spatial and the temporal aspects of the CAP. In this paper, we precisely propose an original approach based on weighted CSP (WCSP) to address the crop allocation planning problem while taking farmers' management choices into account. These are represented as hard and preference constraints. We illustrate our proposition by some results based on a virtual case study. This preliminary work foreshadows the development of a decision-aid tool for supporting farmers in their crop allocation strategies