The following topics are of particular interest to the symposium. The topics apply to all animal species (aquaculture, cattle, equine, goat, poultry, sheep, and swine) at all production stages (i.e., from incubator to growth/production, to abattoir).

• Automated identification and monitoring/tracking of individual animals in group housing, such as feeding behavior, locomotion, aggression, mortality

• Computational algorithms or techniques used to process big data on behavioral and physiological responses 

• Low-cost sensors and sensing techniques for automatic quantification of individual animal behaviors, physiological variables, and health/well-being status 

• Novel methods to automatically detect/monitor/improve critical moments of the production cycles, such as hatching, farrowing, accidental crushing of piglets by sow

• On-farm demonstration of PLF or electronic stockmanship applications

• Quantification of individual animal variations in behavioral, physiological, and/or performance responses to environmental stimuli 

• Real-time modeling of animal responses and decision-making based on behavioral and physiological sensing of the animals