Schot, Grégory
[UCL]
De Greef, Ninon
[UCL]
Schaus, Pierre
[UCL]
Verhaeghe, Hélène
[UCL]
Cow milk is the basis product of the whole dairy industry. To be produced, dairy cows must give birth to calves. Those can be sold, or can stay in the herd for animal husbandry. It is interesting to select the bull that will impregnate a particular cow according to some criterion, like the consanguinity or the milk quality. Until now, it was done by hand and by humans. Constrained programming is a programming paradigm that proves itself very useful in this situation. With a proper modelling of the problem, it can not only find solutions to the problem, finding suitable bulls for cows in a farm, but it can above all find the best. This master thesis is not a theoretical problem. It is based on real data and answer the need for technical assistance to solve a problem. In this dissertation, we present the work that has been done in order to meet the required desires of professional.
Bibliographic reference |
Schot, Grégory ; De Greef, Ninon. Tinder for cows : a constrained optimization problem. Ecole polytechnique de Louvain, Université catholique de Louvain, 2018. Prom. : Schaus, Pierre ; Verhaeghe, Hélène. |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/thesis:17246 |