• Computational animal welfare: Towards cognitive architecture models of animal sentience, emotion and wellbeing 

      Budaev, Sergei; Kristiansen, Tore S; Giske, Jarl; Eliassen, Sigrunn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      To understand animal wellbeing, we need to consider subjective phenomena and sentience. This is challenging, since these properties are private and cannot be observed directly. Certain motivations, emotions and related ...
    • Freshwater history influences farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) performance in seawater 

      Lai, Floriana; Rønnestad, Ivar; Budaev, Sergei; Balseiro Vigo, Pablo; Gelebart, Virginie; Pinto Pedrosa, Cindy; Stevnebø, Anita; Haugarvoll, Erlend; Korsøen, Øyvind Johan; Tangen, Kasper Løberg; Folkedal, Ole; Handeland, Sigurd Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The quality of smolts is one of the key factors for successful salmon production. We compared growth performance, physiological traits, and environmental adaptation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) after transfer into a ...
    • Premises for a digital twin of the Atlantic salmon in its world: Agency, robustness, subjectivity and prediction 

      Budaev, Sergei; Dumitru, Magda L.; Enberg, Katja; Handeland, Sigurd Olav; Higginson, Andrew D; Kristiansen, Tore S; Opdal, Anders Martin Frugård; Railsback, Steven F.; Rønnestad, Ivar; Vollset, Knut; Mangel, Marc; Giske, Jarl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Aquaculture of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar is in transition to precision fish farming and digitalization. As it is easier, cheaper and safer to study a digital replica than the system itself, a model of the fish can ...