[Posgrados-invop] BigDSSAgro 2018 CfP

[Héctor Cancela]

BigDSSAgro 2018 CfP
2nd International Conference on Agro Big Data and Decision Support 
Systems in Agriculture
July 12-14 2018, Lleida, Spain
http://www.bigdssagro2018.com

Important Dates

-Abstract submission deadline: March 26, 2018 (Anywhere on Earth)
-Paper notification: May 28, 2018
-Camera-ready deadline: June 14, 2018
-Conference:  July 12-14 2018

General Information on Submissions
Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format using the 
easychair system at the link 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdssagro2018, and should be 
between 1 and 4 pages long, using the format available at the conference 
web page (http://www.bigdssagro.udl.cat/congreso2018/?q=call-papers).

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and complete 
the registration payment before June 27 in order for the paper to be 
included in the conference schedule and proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit full article versions for consideration in 
a special issue of the Annals of Operations Research journal.
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The BigDSSAgro conference is devoted to BigData and decision support 
systems in agriculture, which combine models, databases 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 and new Operational Research, Big Data and Analytics methods 
in effective decision-making applications in Agriculture and in the 
Agri-food industry, including their supply chain, and also problems in 
Forestry and in Environment studies.

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

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

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

Organization

General Chairs
•    Héctor Cancela, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
•    Lluís M. Plà, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
•    Victor M. Albornoz, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile

Program Chairs
•    Antonio Mauttone, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
•    Adela Pagès-Bernaus, UDL, Spain
•    Alejandro Mac Cawley, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile
•    Jorge Vera, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile
•    Sergio Maturana, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile

Technical Program Committee
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•    Renzo Akkerman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
•    Víctor Albornoz, UTFSM, Chile
•    Walter Baethgen, IRI, USA
•    Carlos Bouza, UH, Cuba
•    Pablo Chilibroste, UDELAR, Uruguay
•    Ángel Cobo, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
•    Sergio Serra da Cruz, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil
•    Santiago Dogliotti, UDELAR, Uruguay
•    Fernando Garagorry, EMBRAPA, Brazil
•    Frederick Garcia, DigitAg, France
•    Marcela González Araya, Universidad de Talca, Chile
•    Andrew Higgins, CSIRO, Australia
•    Anders R. Kristensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
•    Concepcion Maroto , UPV, Spain
•    Reinaldo Morabito, UFSCAR, Brazil
•    Lorena Prádenas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
•    Luiz Henrique Antunes Rodrigues, Unicamp, Brazil
•    Daniel Rodriguez, University of Queensland,  Australia
•    Sara Rodríguez, UANL, Mexico
•    Pablo Rodriguez-Bocca, UDELAR, Uruguay
•    Lorena Rodríguez-Gallego, UDELAR, Uruguay
•    Christian von Lücken, UNA, Paraguay
•    Andrés Weintraub, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Local Organizing Committee
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•    Esteve Nadal, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
•    Jordi Mateo, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
•    Francesc Solsona, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
•    Gabriel Anzaldi, Eurecat, Spain
•    Jorge Gonzalo, Agrifood AT, Spain

For more information, visit the conference website: 
http://www.bigdssagro2018.com
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Dr. Ing. Héctor Cancela			cancela at fing.edu.uy
Profesor Titular, Gr. 5, Instituto de Computación
Facultad de Ingeniería, UDELAR
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Montevideo 11300, Uruguay    Tel: (+ 598) 2 711 4244 int 1110

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