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title: >-
  PyCrop2ML : Python library to exchange and reuse crop
  model compponents between languages and platforms 
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authors:
  - given-names: Cyrille Ahmed
    family-names: Midingoyi
    affiliation: CIRAD
    email: cyrille_ahmed.midingoyi@cirad.fr
  - given-names: Christophe
    family-names: Pradal
    email: christophe.pradal@cirad.fr
    affiliation: CIRAD
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-761X'
  - given-names: 'Andreas '
    family-names: Enders
    affiliation: >-
      Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation
      (INRES), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
  - given-names: Davide
    family-names: Fumagalli
    affiliation: Institute for Environment and Sustainability
  - given-names: Patrice
    family-names: Lecharpentier
    affiliation: INRAE
  - given-names: 'Hélène '
    family-names: Raynal
    affiliation: INRAE
  - given-names: 'Marcello '
    family-names: Donatelli
    affiliation: CREAA
  - given-names: Ioannis N.
    family-names: Athanasiadis
    affiliation: 'Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands'
  - given-names: 'Cheryl '
    family-names: Porter
    affiliation: >-
      Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of
      Florida, Gainesville, USA
  - given-names: 'Gerrit '
    family-names: Hoogenboom
    affiliation: >-
      Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of
      Florida, Gainesville, USA
  - given-names: 'Fabio '
    family-names: Oliveira
    affiliation: >-
      Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of
      Florida, Gainesville, USA
  - given-names: 'Dean '
    family-names: Holzworth
    affiliation: 'CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Toowoomba, Australia'
  - given-names: Pierre
    family-names: Martre
    affiliation: INRAE
    email: pierre.martre@inrae.fr
repository-code: >-
  https://github.com/AgriculturalModelExchangeInitiative/PyCrop2ML
url: 'https://crop2ml.org'
abstract: >-
  The increasing impact of climate change and variability on
  food security and agriculture, and the need for
  agroecological transition require improving the
  performance of crop simulation models and to model new
  biophysical processes to tackle new challenges. Recently,
  the Agricultural Models Exchange Initiative (AMEI)
  proposed Crop2ML, an open-source modeling framework for
  exchanging and reusing crop model components between
  modeling platforms. This framework provides a unified
  description of model components at a high level of
  abstraction based on shared concepts, lifting constraints
  of modeling platforms through an automatic system that
  transforms high-level models into platform-compliant
  components. This paper presents an approach based on
  reverse engineering to automatically extract and transform
  meta-information and algorithms of existing crop model
  processes into a platform-independent model component. A
  search algorithm using Crop2ML concepts, and a many-to-one
  transformation system was adopted as the main reverse
  engineering techniques to produce high-level models. The
  system consists in parsing the codebase of model
  components from different high-level languages (Python, R,
  Java, C++, C#, and Fortran) using the ANother Tool for
  Language Recognition (ANTLR) parser generator and
  processing the generated syntax trees to produce the
  various model implementations. It is implemented and
  evaluated on three crop model components: an energy
  balance model provided by BioMA platform and two soil
  temperature models provided by SIMPLACE and DSSAT
  platforms. We demonstrated the extensibility of our
  approach with the STICS, OpenAlea, and SiriusQuality
  modeling platforms. CyMLTx is a significant contribution
  towards the interoperability of crop modeling platforms
  and the reuse of crop model components beyond programming
  languages. It will thus contribute to foster model
  intercomparison and improvement activities. 
keywords:
  - Crop2ML
  - AMEI
  - Crop Model
  - DSSAT
  - SimPlace
  - STICS
  - APSIM
  - OpenAlea
  - BioMA
  - RECORD
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