Books & Monographs Plant, R. E. and N. D. Stone. 1991. Knowledge-based Systems in Agriculture. McGraw-Hill, New York. 364 pp. Book Chapters Sterling, W.L, A.P. Gutierrez, D. Rummel, L.T. Wilson, J. Phillips, N.D. Stone and J. Benedict. 1989. Strategies and tactics for managing insects and mites. Pages 267-325 in R.E. Frisbie, K.M. El-Zik and L.T. Wilson (eds), Integrated Pest Management Systems and Cotton Production. J. Wiley and Sons. Davidson, N.A. and N.D. Stone. 1989. Imported Fire Ants (Solenopsis richteri Forel and S. invicta Buren). Pages 196-217 in D.L. Dahlsten and R. Garcia (eds), Eradication of Exotic Pests: An Evaluation with Selected Case Histories. Yale University Press. Packard, J. M., L. J. Folse, N. D. Stone, M. E. Makela, and R. N. Coulson. 1990. Applications of artificial intelligence to animal behavior. Pages 147-191 in M. Bekoff and D. Jamieson (eds.), Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Animal Behavior, Vol. II: Explanation, Evolution, and Adaptation.. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. Stone, N. D. 1992. Artificial intelligence approaches to modeling insect systems. Pages 37-52 in J. L. Goodenough and J. M. McKinnion (eds), ASAE Monograph: Basics of Insect Modeling. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan. Papers in Refereed Journals Stone, N.D., R.N. Coulson, R.E. Frisbie and D.K. Loh. 1986. Expert systems in entomology: three approaches to problem solving. Bull. Entomol. Soc. Am. 32(3): 161-166. Stone, N.D. and A.P. Gutierrez. 1986. Pink Bollworm Control in Southwestern Desert Cotton. I. A field oriented simulation model Hilgardia 54(9): 1-24. Stone, N.D. and A.P. Gutierrez. 1986. Pink Bollworm Control in Southwestern Desert Cotton. II. A strategic management model. Hilgardia 54(9): 25-41. Stone, N.D., A.P. Gutierrez, W.M. Getz and R. Norgaard. 1986. Pink Bollworm Control in Southwestern Desert Cotton. III. Strategies for control: an economic simulation study. Hilgardia 54(9): 42-56. Saunders, M.C, C.W. Haeseler, J.W. Travis, B.J. Miller, R.N. Coulson, K.D. Loh and N.D. Stone. 1987. GRAPES: An expert system for viticulture in Pennsylvania. AI Applications 1(2): 13-20. Stone, N. D. 1987. The hype over AI. (Letter to the Editor) Bull. Entomol. Soc. Am. 33(4): 206-208. Woolley, J.B. and N.D. Stone. 1987. Application of artificial intelligence to systematics: SYSTEX‹a prototype expert system for species identification. Syst. Zool. 36(3): 248-267. Daly, H.V., D. DeJong and N.D. Stone. 1988. Effect of parasitism by Varroa jacobsoni on the morphometrics of africanized worker honey bees. J. Apicul. Res. 27(2): 126-130. Saarenmaa, H., N.D. Stone, J.M. Packard, W.E. Grant, L.J. Folse, M.E. Makela and R.N. Coulson. 1988. Artificial intelligence approaches to modeling animal / habitat interactions. Ecol. Modelling 44: 125-141. Stone, N.D., M.E. Makela and F.W. Plapp, Jr. 1988. A non-linear optimization analysis of insecticide mixtures for the control of Tobacco Budworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 81(4): 989-994. Stone, N.D. and T.W. Toman. 1989. A dynamically linked expert-database system for decision support in Texas cotton production. Computers & Electronics in Agriculture 4: 139-148. Cochran, M.J., P. Zimmel, S. C. Goh, N.D. Stone, T.W. Toman and G.L. Helms. 1990. An expert system to elicit risk preferences: the futility of utility revisited. Computers & Electronics in Agriculture 4: 361-375. Schaub, L. P. and N. D. Stone. 1990. Comparison of strategies for bollworm control in Texas cotton using a heuristic simulation model. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 63: 485-492. Stone, N. D. 1990. Chaos in an individual-level predator-prey model. Natural Resource Modeling 4(4): 539-553. Stone, N. D. 1990. Organizing research in Agricultural Information Technology. AI Applications 4(2): 1-2. Stone, N. D. and B. A. Engel. 1990. Workshop Report: Knowledge-based systems in agriculture and natural resource management. AI Magazine 11(3): 20-22. Stone, N.D. and L.P. Schaub. 1990. A hybrid expert system/simulation model for the analysis of pest management strategies. AI Applications 4(2): 17-26. Stone, N.D., D.R. Rummel, S. Carroll, M.E. Makela and R.E. Frisbie. 1990. Simulation of boll weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) spring emergence and overwintering survival on the Texas Rolling Plains. Environ. Entomol. 19(1): 91-98. Gutierrez, A. P., W. J. Dos Santos, A. Villacorta, M. A. Pizzamiglio, C. K. Ellis, L. H. Carvalho, and N. D. Stone. 1991. Modelling the interaction of cotton and the cotton boll weevil: I. A comparison of growth and development of cotton varieties. J. Applied Ecology 28: 371-397. Sequeira, R.A.*, P.J.H. Sharpe, N.D. Stone, K.M. El-Zik, and M.E. Makela. 1991. Object-oriented simulation: plant growth and discrete organ to organ interactions. Ecol. Modelling 58: 55-89. Stone, N.D., R.D. Buick, J.W. Roach, R.K. Scheckler, and R. Rupani. 1992. The planning problem in agriculture: Farm-level crop rotation planning as an example. AI Applications 6(1): 59-75. Stone, N. D. 1992. A case for a management science curriculum in agriculture and natural resources. AI Applications 6(2): 1-3. Buick, R. D., N. D. Stone, R. K. Scheckler, and J. W. Roach. 1992. CROPS: A whole-farm crop rotation planning system to implement sustainable agriculture. AI Applications 6(3): 29-50. Stone, N.D., G. Buhyoff, R. Dyer, and A.D. Whittaker. 1992. A society in mind. AI Applications 6(4): 1-2. Buick, R.D., R.R. Youngman, and N.D. Stone. 1993. VICE-corn: an expert system for insect pest management in Virginia field corn. AI Applications 7(2/3): 31-34. Clarke, M.S., J.M. Luna, N.D. Stone, and R.R. Youngman. 1993. Habitat preferences of generalist predators in reduced-tillage corn. J. Entomol. Sci. 28(4): 404-416. Clarke, M.S., J.M. Luna, N.D. Stone, and R.R. Youngman. 1994. Generalist predator consumption of Armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and effect of predator removal on damage in no-till corn. Environ. Entomol. 23(3): 617-622. Schaub, L.P. and N.D. Stone. 1994. An empirical oviposition model of bollworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in cotton: Toward a stochastic model of migration. Agricultural Systems 45: 1-18. Stone, N.D. 1995. Carp AI Diem! (Editorial) AI Applications 9(1): 1-2. Stone, N.D. 1995. Object-oriented constraint satisfaction planning for whole-farm management. AI Applications 9(1): 61-69. Stone, N.D., Cline, B.E. and Pease, J.W. 2002. Generating Farm Descriptions in a Watershed from Incomplete Data Using Simulated Annealing. J. Amer. Water Resources Assoc. 38: (in press). Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings Naegele, J.A., R.N. Coulson, N.D. Stone and R.E. Frisbie. 1986. The use of expert systems to integrate and deliver IPM technology. Pages 692-711 in R.E. Frisbie and P.L. Adkisson (eds), Integrated Pest Management on Major Agricultural Systems. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station MP-1616. Stone, N.D. 1989. Knowledge-based systems as a unifying paradigm for IPM. Pages 13-24 in Proc. National IPM Symposium/Workshop. Las Vegas, Nevada, April 25-28, Communication Services, New York State Agric. Exp. Sta., Cornell Univ., Geneva, New York. Luna, J.M., V.G. Allen, W.L. Daniels, J.P. Fontenot, P.G. Sullivan, C.A. Laub, N.D. Stone, D.H. Vaughan, E.S. Hagood, and D.B. Taylor. 1991. Low-input crop and livestock systems in the southeastern United States. Pages 183-205 in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education in the Field: A Proceedings. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Stone, N.D. 1991. Individual-Level Simulation: New evidence for chaos in population biology. Pages 91-108 in Chaos in Ecological Systems. J. Logan and F. Hains (eds.), Virginia Tech Press., Blacksburg, Virginia. Stone, N.D., Faulkner, D., Scheckler, R.K., Pease, J., and Roach J. 1998. CROPS: a constraint-satisfaction system for whole-farm planning. Pages 527-537 in Proceedings First International Conference on Multiple Objective Decision Support Systems for Land, Water and Environmental Management: Concepts, approaches, and Applications. Lewis Publishers, Florida. Stone, N.D., Cline, B.E., and Pease, J.W. 2001. Generating farm boundaries and descriptions in a watershed from incomplete data using simulated annealing. Pages 756-767 In D.J. Bosch (ed.) Proceedings of the Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium: Processes and Tools. Virginia Water Resources and Research Center, Blacksburg, Virginia. P72001. Stone, N.D., Wolfe, M.L., Bosch, D.J., Pease, J.W., Heatwole, C., Cline, B.E., and Veith, T. 2001. A distributed integrated decision support system for water quality policy analysis at the watershed level. Pages 768-782 In D.J. Bosch (ed.) Proceedings of the Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium: Processes and Tools. Virginia Water Resources and Research Center, Blacksburg, Virginia. P72001. Proceedings Gillespie, J., N.D. Stone and A.F. Kydonieus. 1985. Pink bollworm management program using a heat unit based model and controlled release pheromone products. Proc. 12th Int. Symp. Bioactive Mat. Geneva, Switzerland, July 8-12. Stone, N.D., R.E. Frisbie, J.W. Richardson and R.N. Coulson. 1986. Integrated expert system applications for agriculture. Pages 836-841 in Proc. Int. Conf. Computers in Agric. Ext. Prog. Gainesville, Fla.: Office of Conferences, University of Florida. Frisbie, R.E., N.D. Stone and J.W. Richardson. 1987. COTFLEX: An integrated expert system for farm management. Pages 59-61 in Proc. Western Cotton Prod. Conf. Phoenix, Arizona, August 18-20. Frisbie, R.E., N.D. Stone, J.W. Richardson and C. Sansone. 1987. COTFLEX: Organizing, developing, and implementing a cotton expert system for total crop management. Pages 193-194 in Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Production and Research Conferences. Memphis, Tenn.: National Cotton Council of America. Helms*, G., J.W. Richardson, T.O. Knight, M.E. Rister and N.D. Stone. 1987. COTFLEX: An expert system to provide cropmix and farm policy advice to producers. Pages 197-201 in Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Production and Research Conferences. Memphis, Tenn.: National Cotton Council of America. Stone, N.D. 1987. Artificial intelligence approaches to systems modeling. Amer. Soc. Agric. Eng. Paper No. 87-1083. 21 pp. Stone, N. D., R. E. Frisbie, J. W. Richardson, and C. Sansone. 1987. COTFLEX: A modular expert system that synthesizes biological and economic analyses: the pest management advisor as an example. Pages 194-197 in Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Production and Research Conferences. Memphis, Tenn.: National Cotton Council of America. Makela, M.E., S.B. Vinson and N.D. Stone. 1988. Host-parasitoid population dynamics in a heterogeneous environment. Pages 228-233 in Proc. SCS Multiconference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation: The Diversity of Applications. Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego, February 3-5. Schaub, L. and N.D. Stone. 1989. Embedding an expert system into a stochastic simulation model for the analysis of control strategies for Heliothis in Texas. Pages 220-222 in Proc. Beltwide Cotton Prod. Res. Conf. National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Sequeira*, R.A., N.D. Stone, M. Cochran, A.P. Gutierrez, and K.M. El-Zik. 1989. Inclusion of plant structure and quality into a distributed delay cotton fruiting model. Pages 156-159 in Proc. Beltwide Cotton Prod. Res. Conf. National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Stone, N.D. and H. Saarenmaa. 1989. Expert systems and IPM: An overview. Pages 71-88 in R. Cavalloro and V. Deluchi (eds.) Parasitis 88: Boletin de Sanidad Vegatal, Fuera de Serie No. 17. Ministerio de Agricultura Pesca y Alimentacion, Madrid. Engel, B.A., D.D. Jones, N.D. Stone and T.L. Thompson. 1990. Integrated approaches to agricultural computing. Pages 47-53 in Workshop Proceedings Knowledge Engineering for Agriculture, Department of Agric. Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Stone, N.D. and D.R. Rummel 1990. Modeling the spring emergence and overwintering survivorship of the boll weevil in Texas. Pages 318-321 in Proc. Beltwide Cotton Prod. Res. Conf. National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Sequeira*, R.A., M.E. Makela, K.M. El-Zik, and N.D. Stone. 1990. Coupling object-oriented plant and Heliothis models. Pages 339-342 in Proc. Beltwide Cotton Prod. Res. Conf. National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Stone, N.D. 1991. An object-oriented approach to modeling arthropod predator-prey interactions. Pages 638-649 in G. Buhyoff (ed.) Proceedings, Resource Technology 90: 2nd International Symposium on Advanced Technology in Natural Resource Management. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland. Buick, R.D., N. D. Stone, R.K. Scheckler, J.M. Luna, W.L. Daniels, J. Pease, and J.W. Roach. 1992. CROPS, a planning approach to farming sustainably and reducing pollution. Pages 64-68 in Proceedings of the Third Annual Environment Virginia Symposium. VMI Research Laboratories, Lexington, Virginia. Stone, N. D. 1992. An artificial intelligence approach to resource allocation in crop-livestock systems. Pages 172-181 in Proceedings Advanced Computer Applications in Animal Agriculture. Dept. of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Stone, N. D. 1992. Expert systems and decision making in urban IPM. Pages 5-16 in Proceedings National Conference of Urban Entomology. Urban Pest Control Research Center, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Stone, N. D., R. D. Buick, R. K. Scheckler, and J. Roach. 1992. Environmentally sound agricultural planning using artificial intelligence. Pages 294-303 in American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), and Resource Technology 92 Technical Papers, Vol 5: Resource Technology 92. ASPRS and ACSM, 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Stone, N. D. 1993. Artificial intelligence and its application to biological control. Pages 53-60 in R. D. MacDonald (ed.), Biological Control: Developing strategies for the 90's. North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Protection, P.O. Box 27647, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Stone, N.D., D.R. Rummel, S. Carroll, T. Fuchs, and J. Slosser. 1993. Predicting overwintering survival and spring emergence patterns of boll weevil in the Rolling Plains of Texas. Pages 938-942 in Proc. Beltwide Cotton Prod. Res. Conf., v.2, National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Stone, N.D. and P.L. Warren. 1994. Pesticide management through whole-farm planning. Pages 18-29 in Procedings 4th National Pesticide Conference, New dimensions in pesticide research, development, management and policy (1993). Publications Services, Viginia Water Resources Center, 617 N. Main St., Blacksburg, Virginia 24060. Stone, N.D. 1995. Whole-farm planning for crop/livestock farms: integrating nutrient management. pp. 255-261 in FACTS 95 Conference Proceedings, Cornell University, 272 Morrison Hall, Ithaca NY. Buck, S.P., M.L. Wolfe, D.J. Bosch, and N.D. Stone. 1998. Developing risk-based nutrient management decision aids: a case study for the use of surveys and focus groups to set research priorities. Paper No. 98-5040, ASAE, St. Joseph, Michigan. Bosch, D., J. Pease, and N.D. Stone 1998. Incorporating spatial variability in economic analyses of agricultural nonpoint source pollution control. Southern Regional Information Exchange Group 70, Annual Meeting, Gulf Shores, Ala. March 26-28. Published By Farm Foundation. Veith, T. L., M. L. Wolfe, C. D. Heatwole, T. A. Dillaha III, D. J. Bosch, J.W. Pease, M. S. Landry, W. Roberts, N. D. Stone. 1999. Assessment tool for evaluation of agricultural NPS pollution control policies in watersheds. ASAE Paper No. 99-2137. Toronto, Canada: ASAE. Stone, N.D., G.B. Benson, G. Groover, J. Venuto, and B.E. Cline. 2001. Pasture Land Management System (PLMS) Presentation and Demonstration. pp. 261-270 in Proceedings 1st National Conference on Grazing Lands (December 2000). National Assoc. Conserv. Districts, League City, Texas 77574. Other Papers & Reports - Popular Articles Stone, N.D. 1991. Computer-Aided Design: Solving management problems. Research Virginia Tech, Winter 1991: 13-14. Stone, N.D. 1992. AI and the Environment: A system for on-farm environmental planning. PC-AI 6(6): 21-25, 39. Stone, N.D. 1994. Computer-aided decision making. Virginia Land and Life Magazine, Winter 1994: 7-13. - Newsletters The CADM Report, 1(1), 1989. Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 2 pp. (editor) The CADM Report, 1(2), 1989. Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 6 pp. (editor) Abstracts not listed above Sequeira*, R.A., M.E. Makela, K.M. El-Zik, and N.D. Stone. 1990. Developing an object-oriented cotton plant model: Mechanistic implications. Page 339 in Proc. Beltwide Cotton Prod. Res. Conf. National Cotton Council of America, Memphis, Tenn. Birdwhistell*, A.J., N.D. Stone, and D.A. Herbert. 1992. Trivial movement and dispersal patterns of the tobacco thrips. Proceedings American Peanut Research and Education Society 24: (in press). Buick, R.D., N.D. Stone, J.M. Luna, J.W. Roach, J. Pease, and L. Daniels. 1991. CROPS: A whole-farm crop rotation planning system to implement environmentally and economically sound farming practices. Paper and Poster Abstracts, International Conference on Agriculture and the Environment. Dept. Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Published Reviews Gilstrap, F. and N.D. Stone. 1988. Book Review: M. Mangel, J.R. Carey and R. E. Plant (eds), Pest Control: Operations and Systems Analysis in Fruit Fly Management.. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg) 1986. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 24(4): 462-465. Stone, N.D. 1993. Book Review: R. C. Axtell, Fly Management Simulator: Computer program and guides. Journal of Economic Entomology (in press). Stone, N.D. 1994. Book Review: J. R. Carey, Applied Demography for Biologists, With Special Emphasis on Insects. Oxford University Press, NY (1993). Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 56: 1164-1166.

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