Transfer of manure from livestock farms to crop fields as fertilizer using an ant inspired approach
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Autor/a
Kamilaris, A.
Engelbrecht, A.
Pitsillides, A.
Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc X.
Fecha de publicación
2020-08-03ISSN
2194-9042
Resumen
Intensive livestock production might have a negative environmental impact, by producing large amounts of animal excrements,
which, if not properly managed, can contaminate nearby water bodies with nutrient excess. However, if animal manure is exported
to distant crop fields, to be used as organic fertilizer, pollution can be mitigated. It is a single-objective optimization problem, in
regards to finding the best solution for the logistics process of satisfying nutrient crops needs by means of livestock manure. This
paper proposes a dynamic approach to solve the problem, based on a decentralized nature-inspired cooperative technique, inspired
by the foraging behavior of ants (AIA). Results provide important insights for policy-makers over the potential of using animal
manure as fertilizer for crop fields, while AIA solves the problem effectively, in a fair way to the farmers and well balanced in terms
of average transportation distances that need to be covered by each livestock farmer. Our work constitutes the first application of a
decentralized AIA to this interesting real-world problem, in a domain where swarm intelligence methods are still under-exploited.
Tipo de documento
Artículo
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Versión publicada
Lengua
Inglés
Materias (CDU)
636 - Explotación y cría de animales. Cría del ganado y de animales domésticos
Páginas
8
Publicado por
Copernicus Publications
Publicado en
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Citación
Kamilaris, A., A. Engelbrecht, A. Pitsillides, and Francesc X. Prenafeta-Bold. 2020. "Transfer of manure from livestock farms to crop fields as fertilizer using an ant inspired approach". ISPRS Annals Of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing And Spatial Information Sciences V-4-2020: 139-146. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-v-4-2020-139-2020.
Número del acuerdo de la subvención
EC/H2020/739578/EU/Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies/RISE
Program
Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes
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