A modelling framework based on MDP to coordinate farmers' disease control decisions at a regional scale.

ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of infectious disease control depends on the ability of health managers to act in a coordinated way. However, with regards to non-notifiable animal diseases, farmers individually decide whether or not to implement control measures, leading to positive and negative externalities for connected farms and possibly impairing disease control at a regional scale. Our objective was to facilitate the identification of optimal incentive schemes at a collective level, adaptive to the epidemiological situation, and minimizing the economic costs due to a disease and its control. We proposed a modelling framework based on Markov Decision Processes (MDP) to identify effective strategies to control PorcineReproductive andRespiratorySyndrome (PRRS), a worldwide endemicinfectiousdisease th

SUBMITTER: Viet AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5999088 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature