Tradeoff’s in modeling epidemic disease in slaughter pig production
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Model based decision support for optimizing the decision complex stemming from a slaughter pig production exposed to infectious disease requires careful analysis of the individual components and their modeling. Due to limitations imposed by existing methods and computational considerations the resulting model will be a tradeoff between modeling the conceptual aspects and the possibilities within the selected framework. Here we discuss the development of a model based decision support system for simultaneous optimization of decisions regarding disease control and marketing pigs for slaughter in a slaughter pig production unit.
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