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ArticleTropical animal health and production2023

Using the artificial bee colony technique to optimize machine learning algorithms in estimating the mature weight of camels.

Farhat Iqbal, Abdul Raziq, Zil-E-Huma, Cem Tirink, Abdul Fatih, Muhammad Yaqoob

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  1. ExploringCurrent issues in molecular biology · 2026
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  2. Prediction of Mature Body Weight of Indigenous Camel (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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Farhat IqbalDepartment of Statistics, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan.
Abdul RaziqDepartment of Statistics, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan.
Zil-E-HumaDepartment of Zoology, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Quetta, Pakistan.
Cem TirinkBiometry and Genetics Unit, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Igdir University, TR76000, Igdir, Turkey. cem.tirink@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6902-5837
Abdul FatihCenter of Advanced Studies in Vaccinology and Biotechnology, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan.
Muhammad YaqoobDepartment of Statistics, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan.

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Abstract

This paper aims to predict male and female camels' mature weight (MW) through various morphological traits using hybrid machine learning (ML) algorithms. For this aim, biometrical measurements such as birth weight (BW), length of face (FL), length of the neck (NL), a girth of the heart (HG), body length (BL), withers height (WH), and hind leg length (HLL) were used to estimate the mature weight for eight camel breeds of Pakistan. In this study, multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), random forest (RF), and support vector machine (SVM) were applied to develop prediction models. Furthermore, the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is employed to optimize ML models' internal parameters and improve prediction accuracy. The predictive performance of ML and hybrid models was evaluated on a testing dataset using goodness-of-fit measures such as mean absolute deviation (MAD), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), coefficient of determination (R

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AlgorithmsCamelusAnimalsBiometryFemaleMachine LearningMaleRandom ForestBody weight predictionCamelMachine learningMorphological traitsOptimization

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