A Learning Model for Intelligent Agents Applied to Poultry Farming

Richardson Ribeiro, Marcelo Teixeira, André L. Wirth, André P. Borges, Fabrício Enembreck

2015

Abstract

This paper proposes a learning model for taking-decision problems using intelligent agents technologies combined with instance-based machine learning techniques. Our learning model is applied to a real case to support the daily decisions of a poultry farmer. The agent of the system is used to generate action policies, in order to control a set of factors in the daily activities, such as food-meat conversion, amount of food to be consumed, time to rest, weight gain, comfort temperature, water and energy to be consumed, etc. The perception of the agent is ensured by a set of sensors scattered by the physical structure of the poultry. The principal role of the agent is to perform a set of actions in a way to consider aspects such as productivity and profitability without compromising bird welfare. Experimental results have shown that, for the decision-taking process in poultry farming, our model is sound, advantageous and can substantially improve the agent actions in comparison with equivalent decision when taken by a human specialist.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ribeiro R., Teixeira M., L. Wirth A., P. Borges A. and Enembreck F. (2015). A Learning Model for Intelligent Agents Applied to Poultry Farming . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-096-3, pages 495-503. DOI: 10.5220/0005373604950503

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis15,
author={Richardson Ribeiro and Marcelo Teixeira and André L. Wirth and André P. Borges and Fabrício Enembreck},
title={A Learning Model for Intelligent Agents Applied to Poultry Farming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={495-503},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005373604950503},
isbn={978-989-758-096-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - A Learning Model for Intelligent Agents Applied to Poultry Farming
SN - 978-989-758-096-3
AU - Ribeiro R.
AU - Teixeira M.
AU - L. Wirth A.
AU - P. Borges A.
AU - Enembreck F.
PY - 2015
SP - 495
EP - 503
DO - 10.5220/0005373604950503