Fuzzy Logic-Based Decision Support for Dairy Cattle Welfare Integrating Different Benchmarks.

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, one of the key areas of sustainable agriculture is increasing animal welfare. However, in the absence of generally accepted measurement criteria and systems, measuring animal welfare can be considered a subjective area that makes measuring animal welfare complex. As a result, both increasing welfare and making intervention decisions are not clear for farm management. In our research, we develop a fuzzy logic-based decision support system that is able to handle the subjectivity arising from determining animal welfare. During focus group interviews, experts pointed out that animal welfare assessment systems do not provide adequate support in decision-making. However, the integration of different benchmarks (past, best values and competitors) and the triangular membership functions

SUBMITTER: Gaspar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12466726 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature