The agents represent mobile pastoralists that have herds consisting of 200 animals. The risk of disease transmission increaseswhen agents are in close proximity, for examplewhen sharing common grazing areas or transhumance routes. To represent the risk of transmission due to proximity we use a bu er with a fixed radius for all agents for the entire year. We change the bu er size to explore di e...

We consider social phenomena as challenges and measures for learning in multi-agent scenarios for the following reasons: (i) social phenomena emerge through complex learning processes of groups of people, (ii) a model of a phenomenon sheds light onto the strengths and weaknesses of the learning algorithm in the context of the model environment. In this paper we use tabular reinforcement learnin...

Transhumance is an extensive farming system developed by livestock farmers, that moved their herds between lowlands and uplands, in order to cope with the seasonality of the available forage. The purpose of this study was to examine the transhumant sheep and goat system in Greece highlighting differences in management aspects among the country’s regions. Non-parametric statistical methods in a ...

Vertical transhumance is historically known as an animal management practice in the Mediterranean that mitigates risk of overgrazing and unpalatable pastures. It has long been debated whether developed together with spread Neolithic Europe or if it was adopted later. This study explores evidence for transhumant pastoralism at Arene Candide, Northern Italy during Neolithic. We examine carbon (δ1...

BACKGROUND A mixed methods study was undertaken in the Kachia Grazing Reserve of northern Nigeria. Surveys in March, June and October 2011 included focus group discussions, key informant and in-depth household interviews, concerning livelihood practices, animal health, ownership, and productivity. In May 2011, 249 Fulani families fleeing post-election violence entered the reserve with their liv...