[AISWorld] [DSys4AR 2023] Distributed Systems for the Agriculture Revolution - Call for Papers. Submission deadline: May 31, 2023

[Jan Bauer]

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to submit workshop papers to the IEEE 
MASS Workshop on Distributed Systems for the Agriculture Revolution 
(DSys4AR 2023).

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP.

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*1st IEEE MASS Workshop on Distributed Systems for the Agriculture 
Revolution (DSys4AR 2023)**
**in conjunction with the 20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile 
Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS).*

  * Toronto, Canada, September 25-27, 2023
  * Website: https://dsys4ar.cs.uos.de
  * Submission: https://edas.info/N30909

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DSys4AR Workshop Scope*

Increasing productivity and efficiency in agriculture has always been 
the main driver of human development. Nowadays, special challenges 
include tackling the impact of global warming and making farming more 
sustainable by fertilizing fields more precisely. This topic is 
particularly hot this year as the conflict in Ukraine, which has led to 
global wheat supply shortages, has shown us just how vulnerable our 
global supply chains are. A higher-yielding, more sustainable, and 
resource-conserving agriculture that is adapted to climate change is 
therefore urgently needed. Upcoming technologies such as UAVs, novel 
in-situ and remote sensing technologies, autonomous and interconnected 
field robots, and more precise actuators have the potential to cause a 
new revolution in agriculture. These technologies unleash their full 
potential if coordinated in distributed systems. From a communication 
perspective, this is particularly challenging in the agricultural domain 
due to the plurality of heterogeneous systems as well as the increasing 
amount of information that needs to be exchanged and processed. In 
addition, the required long communication ranges are countered by the 
rather weak communications infrastructure in rural areas.

The goal of this DSys4AR Workshop is to bring researchers and industry 
practitioners from different domains together who worked on the 
different aspects of distributed systems in agriculture and discuss new 
steps towards heterogeneous networks for the next generation of smart 
fields, farms, and equipment, with a myriad of networked sensing and 
actuator systems. The relevance of information technology solutions for 
optimizing food production, storage, transport, processing, and 
distribution is of immense social importance, not least due to the 
changes caused by climate change. The DSys4AR workshop will therefore 
discuss topics such as networked sensor systems in the field of smart 
farming or precision agriculture, in order to find answers to how the 
community of communication, sensor, and information technology can 
contribute here.

*Topics*
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Low power sensing and IoT for food, livestock, and agriculture
  * Long-range and dependable wireless communication and sensing networks
  * Data protection, privacy, and security for agricultural stakeholders
  * Production chain traceability, food storage, and food processing
    monitoring
  * Sustainable and environmental-friendly sensor networks
  * Remote sensing with UAVs and Earth Observation (EO) satellites
  * Networked robotics and agricultural machinery
  * In-situ mobile and crowd sensing
  * Real-world applications including deployment experiences,
    challenges, and fails

*Submission guidelines*

  * via EDAS: https://edas.info/N30909
  * Paper submissions may be up to six (6) pages,
  * formatted in two-column IEEE conference style,
  * and must describe original, previously unpublished research and
    developments, not currently under review by another conference,
    workshop, or journal.
  * Detailed instructions can be found on the webpage.

*Important dates*

  * Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2023
  * Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2023
  * Camera-ready Papers Due: July 14, 2023


*Workshop Organizers*

  * Thomas Hänel, Osnabrück University, Germany
  * Ulf Kulau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
  * Jan Bauer, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
  * You can contact the organizers at dsys4ar2023-chairs at edas.info.