AACC'18: The Second International Conference of ICT for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Universidad ICESI Cali, Colombia, November 21-23, 2018 |
Conference website | http://ricclisa.org/aacc18/index.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aacc18 |
Submission deadline | June 8, 2018 |
The International Conference of ICT for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change (AACC'18) will be held at Cali (Colombia) on November 21-23, 2018. This conference is organized by the Inter-Institutional Network for Climate Change and Security Food of Colombia – RICCLISA, Universidad Icesi (Cali – Colombia), Centro Regional de Productividad e innovación del Cauca - CREPIC and Universidad del Cauca (Popayán – Colombia).
Over the last decade, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) haves emerged as tools supporting farming and agricultural production. This is reflected in the multiple hardware and software applications providing services to reduce effects caused by diseases and pests in crops, or in real-time monitoring of weather conditions and water quality parameters used for farming and production. Sustainable supply, risk and uncertainty management in agriculture productivity increase and cost reductions are some issues that big data solutions and data analytics can help to solve.
This international conference will look at emerging problems and new ICT solutions to address the effects of climate change and climate variability in the agricultural sector, proposing common strategies and guidelines for incorporating risk management and adaptation to climate change.
AACC'18 brings together scholars, researchers, experts and practitioners with common interest in the interdisciplinary fields of ICT applied to Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to share knowledge and novel approaches in the application of information and communications technologies to solutions that allow improving farming and agricultural production in climate change scenarios. These include decision support and early warning systems for agriculture, sustainable water management, predictive models of growth and crop production, and land coverage dynamics for agricultural systems, networking for supporting the adaptation to climate change and food security.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Submitted papers should be within the scope of the AACC'18 conference. All contributions must be of high quality, original, should not have been published elsewhere and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere during the review period or time of the conference. Submissions must not exceed 10 to 16 pages (Full papers) and 7 to 9 pages (short papers).
List of Topics
The (AACC'18) conference themes are the following (but are not limited to):
- Smart Farming
- Big Data in agriculture
- Application of IoT in agriculture
- ICT to support the Agricultural Supply Chain
- Climate Change
- Risk and impact analyses on health by water pollution caused by agriculture
- Smart irrigation in agriculture
Publication
Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC) (edited by Springer).
Authors of selected papers of AACC'18 will be invited to submit extended versions of their works to a special issue of International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS)and Revista de ingenierías Universidad de Medellin
Venue
The conference will be held in the Universidad ICESI, in Cali, Colombia.
The city of Santiago de Cali is the third most important city of Colombia, in the Geographical Valley of the Cauca River at 1018 meters above sea level. The climate is tropical dry, being 25 ° C its average temperature.
In Cali you can explore a happy culture that manifests itself through people, landscapes from mountain ranges to typical valley plains and especially in the “Salsa”; a rhythm that is felt and danced in a unique way.
Cali is a city of great possibilities for tourism and recreation, where you can find a bunch of beautiful people, sites of historical value and places for nightlife. It is also recognized as the main urban, economic, industrial and agricultural center of southwestern Colombia.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to eglasso@unicauca.edu.co