ISAPEP’19

Call for Papers

3nd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Agriculture Production and Environment Protection (ISAPEP’19)

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper submission deadline: 25th March 2019 
• Notification of acceptance: 25th April 2019 
• Camera Ready Deadline: 1st May 2019 
• Workshop Date: 24th or 25th June 2019 

MOTIVATION

Two of the most important worldwide challenges we need to face are to increase food production and protect the environment against factors such as climate change and environmental degradation. This requires the development of optimum environmental management strategies supported by the access to better information on environmental media condition (e.g., soils, waters, sediments, wastes). In order to fulfil this requirement, there is a need to increase the spatial density of environmental media data to ensure their right characterisation in a timely manner. This demand is enhanced by the fact that environmental media are highly heterogeneous and diverse temporally. Due to the high cost and time of traditional laboratory analysis, environmental sampling is often restricted. This increases the possibility of having undetected contamination and poor environmental media characterisation leading to environmental degradation and reducing the profitability of economic activities (e.g., agriculture). Intelligent systems represent alternative analysis tools by providing cost effective, rapid and real time measurement of environmental media, resulting in a new era for their characterisation and assessment. The development of this field offers an exciting opportunity for science advance and commercial application to capture the benefits of new technologies to assist the management of global environmental and economical problems. This development has applications in a wide range of areas (e.g., mining, contamination, agriculture, industrial processes) and requires the input of a number of disciplines (e.g., mathematics/statistics, telecommunications/informatics, environmental sciences). In this context, the use of intelligent systems will be paramount to understand, optimize and automate agricultural and environmental processes. 

TOPICS  

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones: 

• Agriculture Information Technologies 
• Smart farming 
• Precision agriculture 
• Environmental degradation assessment and rehabilitation
• Environmental monitoring
• Intelligent forecasting applications
• Intelligent applications for ecological disaster management
•  Intelligent waste management
• Sensor technologies and monitoring
• Sensor development
• Multi sensor and data fusion 
• Intelligent resource allocation and decision making tools
• Intelligent applications for sustainable intensification of agriculture
• Intelligent applications for ensuring food security
• Intelligent tools and methods for farming system design
• Big Data for agriculture and environmental problems

PUBLICATION 

All accepted papers will be published in an Open Access volume in the Book Series on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Series (IOS Press). The Workshops Proceedings published by this Book Series are indexed in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) by Thomson Reuters. Previous editions were indexed by Scopus. We are also negotiating a special issue in a relevant journal in this area for extended selected papers (more information in the next CFP) SUBMISSIONS Authors wishing to participate in this event should format their papers according to the IOS Press style, with a length of at least 6 but no more than 10 pages. Latex and Word templates can be found in

See more details on the submission system in

PROGRAM CHAIRS & CONTACT INFORMATION    

* Andrés Muñoz, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Spain (amunoz at ucam.edu)   

* José Martín Soriano-Disla, Centro Tecnológico de la Energía y el Medio Ambiente, Spain, (martin.soriano at cetenma.es)