- author = "Francesca Abbona and Leonardo Vanneschi and Marco Bona and Mario Giacobini",
- title = "A {GP} Approach for Precision Farming",
- booktitle = "2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2020",
- year = "2020",
- editor = "Yaochu Jin",
- pages = "paper id24248",
- address = "internet",
- month = "19-24 " # jul,
- organization = "IEEE Computational Intelligence Society",
- publisher = "IEEE Press",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Cows, Precision Livestock Farming, PLF, Cattle Breeding, Piedmontese Bovines",
- isbn13 = "978-1-7281-6929-3",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1109/CEC48606.2020.9185637",
- size = "8 pages",
- abstract = "Livestock is increasingly treated not just as food containers, but as animals that can be susceptible to stress and diseases, affecting, therefore, the production of offspring and the performance of the farm. The breeder needs a simple and useful tool to make the best decisions for his farm, as well as being able to objectively check whether the choices and investments made have improved or worsened its performance. The amount of data is huge but often dispersive: it is therefore essential to provide the farmer with a clear and comprehensible solution, that represents an additional investment. This research proposes a genetic programming approach to predict the yearly number of weaned calves per cow of a farm, namely the measure of its performance. To investigate the efficiency of genetic programming in such a problem, a dataset composed by observations on representative Piedmontese breedings was used. The results show that the algorithm is appropriate, and can perform an implicit feature selection, highlighting important variables and leading to simple and interpretable models.",
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notes = "Cow calves, north itally. ANABORAPI. perinatal
mortality death during weaning (60 days). GPlab Matlab.
Kruskal-Wallis stats test. Natural v. artificial
insemination. 2017, 2018 data. Crossover, mutation,
shrink mutaion swap mutation. mydivide Herd size. GP8
comphrensible evolved model. Time between calve birth
and next calf birth.
Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Torino. ANABORAPI, Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Bovini Razza Piemontese
https://wcci2020.org/ Also known as \cite{9185637}",
