Title
Transfer of Manure as Fertilizer from Livestock Farms to Crop Fields: The Case of Catalonia
Abstract
•Addressing the logistics process of satisfying nutrient crops needs by means of livestock manure.•A centralized solution has been developed, based on an adapted version of Dijkstra’s algorithm.•A decentralized solution has also been developed, based on the foraging behavior of ants.•The centralized solution is more efficient, while the decentralized one is fairer to the farmers.•This is the first application of a decentralized ant-inspired algorithm to this problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.compag.2020.105550
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Animal manure,Livestock farming,Environmental impact,Logistic problem,Optimization,Nature-inspired,Ant behaviour
Journal
175
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0168-1699
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Kamilaris120615.70
Engelbrecht Andries200.34
Andreas Pitsillides399895.02
Prenafeta-Boldu Francesc X.400.34