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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Artificial Intelligence and IoT in Agriculture (AIoTA- EPIA2024)
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Thematic Track of 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2024)
September 3-6, 2024
Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
https://epia2024.pt/thematic-tracks/artificial-intelligence-and-iot-in-agriculture/
https://epia2024.pt/

Paper submission deadline: Apr 30, 2024
Notification of paper acceptance: Jun 15, 2024
Camera-ready papers deadline: Jul 15, 2024
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Introduction
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In a nearby future the world population will rise significantly, reaching 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050. The population increase together with current and new environmental requirements, demand new agriculture production methods. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) play a crucial role in current and future production technologies. The global aim of this thematic track is to bring together researchers, companies, developers and users of both AI and IoT (AI&IoT) fields applied to solve smart agriculture farming and production problems.
Application domains for AI&IoT are wide-ranging, from smart buildings through health monitoring and wearable devices to agro-forestry predictive systems. The spectrum of IoT-specific devices, solutions and scientific approaches include: data acquisition by sensors and mobile devices; RF technologies used in data transmission and data collection in sensor networks; Verification and optimization techniques to help sensor networks to be maintained and operated; Big data and AI approaches provide predictive analytics and high-level correlations of data, all towards better decision support systems. This track covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications and solutions.
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Topics of Interest
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AI in Agroforestry and Agrichain:
• Data Mining;
• Decision Support Systems;
• Expert Systems;
• Forecasting Methods;
• Greenhouse Control with AI;
• Intelligent Control;
• Machine Learning;
• Multi-Agent systems;
• Modelling;
• Optimization;

IOT in Agroforestry and Agrichain:
• Internet of Things (IoT);
• Instrumentation and Sensor Technology;
• Wireless sensor networks;
• Monitoring Systems;
• Drones;
• Precision Agriculture;
• Weather Monitoring;
• Navigation Systems;
• Smart Sensors;
• Sensor Fusion.
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Submission and Reviewing Information
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- All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2024 EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2024
- Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted.
The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNAI format, with a maximum of 12 pages. However, you should consider any track-specific details in your submission.
- Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.
- Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
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Proceedings and Presentations
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- Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (as in previous editions, the publication of a volume of Springer's LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence is expected), as long as at least one author is registered in EPIA 2024 by the deadline advance registration.
- EPIA 2024 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
- Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session.
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Awards
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The conference will grant the following awards:
* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference
* Best Application Paper, for the best application paper presented at the conference
* Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference where the first author is a student (to confirm)

Important: only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.
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Important Dates
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• Full Paper Submission: April 30, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2024
• Camera ready Papers: July 15, 2024
• Conference Date: September 3-6, 2024
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AIoTA@EPIA Organizing Committee
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Luís Pádua, CITAB, UTAD, Portugal
Filipe Neves dos Santos, INESC-TEC, Portugal
José Boaventura Cunha INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal
Paulo Moura Oliveira INESC-TEC, UTAD, Portugal
Raul Morais, CITAB, UTAD, Portugal