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Acknowledgements. The authors acknowledge the financial support provided
by the Argentinean Agency for R&D activities (ANPCyT) through the projects
PAE-PID 146 and PICT-2012-2731, and to the Spanish National Plan for Re-
search, Development and Innovation for financial support provided by the project
TIN2012-31518 (ServiceCloud). Also the authors thank Dr. Elina Pacini, Dr.
David Monge and Ing. Pablo Godoy for their constructive comments to improve
the paper. The first author acknowledges his type II doctoral scholarship pro-
vided by CONICET, to Norberto Faraz for the source code provided for the frost
prediction application, and finally to the Bec.AR program.
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