Symposium at EFITA 2001:

Sequential decisions under uncertainty in agriculture and natural resources

Organized by 

Roger Martin-Clouaire

Research group for Mathematical and Computational Methods for Decision Problems, INRA, Toulouse, France

Anders Ringgaard Kristensen

The Herd Management research group, Department of Animal Science and Animal Health, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark

The symposium is held on Tuesday, 19 June 2001, as part of the EFITA 2001 conference in Montpellier, France. It consists of the following sessions (where Sessions I and II are part of the official EFITA conference programme):

Session I

8.30:

Decision support systems in animal production: A Bayesian future. E. Jørgensen. [Slides, Hand-outs]

8.50:

Simulating management policies on stock supplied by multiple production units: Application to a pig slurry treatment. A. Hélias, F. Guerrin, P. Lopez & J.-P. Steyer. [Slides]

9.10: 

Simulation optimization of grazing management strategies. M.-J. Cros, F. Garcia, R. Martin-Clouaire & M. Duru. [Slides]

9.30:

Tradeoff's in modeling epidemic disease in slaughter pig production. N. Toft, A.R. Kristensen & E. Jørgensen. [Slides]

Session II

11.00:

Comparison between dynamic programming and reinforcement learning: A case study on maize irrigation management. J.-E. Bergez, M. Eigenraam & F. Garcia. [Slides]

11.20:

Generating decision rules by reinforcement learning for a class of crop management problems. F. Garcia, R. Martin-Clouaire & G.L. Nguyen. [Slides]

11.40:

Sustainability analysis for a forestry management model. A. Rapaport, L. Doyen & J.P. Terreaux. [Slides]

12.00:

Qualitative dynamic programming for optimal timber cutting and conservation of leadbeater's possum. J. Kennedy & R. Sabbadin. [Slides]

12.20:

Computer demonstration: A general sofware system for dynamic programming. A.R. Kristensen. [Slides]

Discussion

14.00: Discussion of:

• The papers presented
• Follow-up of this symposium:
  • what kind and what setting for future meetings
  • enlargement of the group
  • other activities at European level (network, project)

Student session

15.00:

Resolution of large and loosely coupled MDP's. Cucala. [Slides]

15.20:

Constrained MDP in forest management. F. Sol. [Slides]

All sessions are held in the Rondelet.