Cattle adapted to tropical and subtropical environments: social, nutritional, and carcass quality considerations

RF Cooke, CL Daigle, P Moriel, SB Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Beef production needs to increase from 60 million to 130 million tons by 2050 to feed a
growing world population, and 70% of this production increase is expected from beef …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable farming strategies for mixed crop-livestock farms in Luxembourg simulated with a hybrid agent-based and life-cycle assessment model

A Bayram, A Marvuglia, TN Gutierrez, JP Weis… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agent-based models (ABMs) are particularly suitable to simulate human-natural systems
since they allow modelers to consider the behavioral aspects of individuals. Life Cycle …

A permissioned distributed ledger for the US beef cattle supply chain

T Ferdousi, D Gruenbacher, CM Scoglio - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed ledgers using blockchain have gained traction in the supply chain industry due to
their unique features of immutability and transparency. They have given people the abilities …

Robustness of supply chain networks against underload cascading failures

Q Yang, CM Scoglio, DM Gruenbacher - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In today's global economy, supply chain (SC) entities have become increasingly
interconnected with demand and supply relationships due to the need for strategic …

Multi-Method Simulation and Multi-Objective Optimization for Energy-Flexibility-Potential Assessment of Food-Production Process Cooling

DA Howard, BN Jørgensen, Z Ma - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Process cooling for food production is an energy-intensive industry with complex
interactions and restrictions that complicate the ability to utilize energy-flexibility due to …

Complex adaptive systems, agent-based modeling and supply chain network management: A systematic literature review

MH Sadat Hosseini Khajouei, N Pilevari… - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - jiems.icms.ac.ir
In recent decades, researchers are turning to the potential of ABMs to study complex
phenomena. Due to intrinsic interconnections, structural interactions and inter …

Layer reconstruction and missing link prediction of a multilayer network with maximum estimation

J Kuang, C Scoglio - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
From social networks to biological networks, different types of interactions among the same
set of nodes characterize distinct layers, which are termed multilayer networks. Within a …

Simulating contact networks for livestock disease epidemiology: a systematic review

WTM Leung, JW Rudge… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Contact structure among livestock populations influences the transmission of infectious
agents among them. Models simulating realistic contact networks therefore have important …

Impact of truck contamination and information sharing on foot-and-mouth disease spreading in beef cattle production systems

Q Yang, DM Gruenbacher, JL Heier Stamm, DE Amrine… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
As cattle movement data in the United States are scarce due to the absence of mandatory
traceability programs, previous epidemic models for US cattle production systems heavily …

Agent-based modeling to improve beef production from dairy cattle: Model description and evaluation

AH Addis, HT Blair, PR Kenyon, ST Morris… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agent-based modeling (ABM) enables an in silico representation of complex systems and
captures agent behavior resulting from interaction with other agents and their environment …