BigDSSAgro2020: IV Conference on BigData and DSS in Agriculture Faculty of Law and Economics Lleida, Spain, October 14-16, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.bigdssagro.udl.cat/congreso2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdssagro2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 30, 2020 |
Submission deadline | September 30, 2020 |
The BigDSSAgro conference is devoted to decision support systems in agriculture, which combine models, databases (Bigdata) and algorithms to support many real-world decision-making problems.
The access to cheap sensor technology, drones, climate data and forecasts, satellite information about soils, humidity and more is provoking a revolution with the irruption of Big Data and opening the door to the development and application of novel optimization and simulation models in Agriculture and the Agri-food industries.
The main question to solve is how to transform the huge amount of data into useful information to decision-makers. Current applications cover a wide range of different areas, from food production or animal welfare to sustainability or climate change impact; and they are expected to still increase in future. The scope of the conference includes findings on established andnew Operations Research, Big Data and Analytics methods ineffective decision-making applications in Agriculture and in the Agri-food industry, including their supply chain, and also problems in Forestry and in Environment studies.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in English (as well as the presentation to be made at the conference) and in PDF format at the following link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdssagro2020, and it should be 1 page long, using the template below:
Word format: BigDSSAgro2020.dot
or
LaTeX: bigDSSagro-2020.zip
List of Topics
Methods:
- Operational research methods relevant to agriculture, forestry and environment
- Sustainability indicators in agriculture and environment
- Modelling sensor based data to get useful information
- Big Data techniques with potential applications in agriculture
- Optimization and simulation models, including agent based simulation
- Decision support tools based on Big Data and Operational research techniques
- Decision support tools based on GIS and their implications with Big Data
- Economic aspects of adoption of Big Data analytics
- Machine learning
- Support Vector machine
Applications of the above mentioned methods in the following settings:
- Smart farms, sensing applications in agriculture
- Precision agriculture, digital agriculture
- Industrial agriculture
- Small scale farming
- Agri-business supply chain
- Forestry
- Land Use
- Environment studies and environmental protection
Committees
General chairs
- Lluís M. Plà, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Esteve Nadal Roig, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Victor M. Albornoz, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
- Alejandro Mac Cawley, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile
Program Committee
- Antonio Mauttone, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Hector Cancela, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Adela Pagès-Bernaus, UdL, Spain
- Esteve Nadal, UdL, Spain
Organizing committee
- Lluís M. Plà, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Adela Pagès-Bernaus, UdL, Spain
- Mihai Catalin Doja, UdL, Spain
- Xavier Ezcurra, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Esteve Nadal, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
Publication
BigDSSAgro2020 participants are welcom to submit paper in these special issues in MDPI journals with limited discount:
- Special Issue "Environmental Management Optimization" (Sustainability)
- Special Issue "Decisions Support Systems for Crop Protection" (Agronomy)
- Special Issue "Innovative Modelling Approaches in Agricultural Systems and Food Processes" (Modelling)
Venue
The conference will be held OnLine.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to {esteve.nadal, lluismiquel.pla}(at)udl.cat