This workshop is organized with a particular focus on international agriculture and computing systems. Consumers demand high quality fruit and vegetables, which are often grown and processed in distant countries.  So, producers must be able to gather, store and transmit information as their food products pass from one county or company to another.  At each stage of the value chain, from the plant to the plate, computing systems are essential for obtaining these goals. 

The workshop is proposed to bring together people from industry, academia and government who are working to innovate, develop and use high performance computing, networking and IT infrastructure, for the purpose of collaborative work in the field of agriculture and applications.  These may include agricultural information databases, agricultural development banking systems, providing vital information to the farmers about weather changes and watering schedules, planning farming crops efficiently, and support various processes involved in the food chain.  

The Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to agricultural applications of computer modeling, simulation and real-time control.  Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere.  Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and authors email addresses.  Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 450 words.  The full manuscript should be at most 7 pages using the two-column IEEE format.  Additional pages will be charged additional fee.  Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.  Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via email to the Workshop organizer at pbro@utalca.cl.  

Only PDF files will be accepted.  Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.  Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.  Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the meeting.  

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the organizer.  

International Program Committee:  

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2011.   (Partial List)