Modelling is a useful tool for decision making in complex agro-industrial scenarios.  Containing a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium of Modelling in Pig and Poultry Production 2013, this book reviews basic modelling concepts, descriptions and applications of production models and new methods and approaches in modelling.

Contributions by: Hilda C P Bendezu, Melina A Bonato, Edney Pereira da Silva, Daniella C.Z. Donato, Juliano C P Dorigam, Jean-Yves Dourmad, Neil S Ferguson, Antonio Sergio Ferraudo, Colin Fisher, Frank Liebert, Edgar Oviedo-Rondón, Candido Pomar, Virginie Rivera-Torres, Normand St-Pierre, Jaap van Milgen