Workshop on Networks and Systems for Agriculture (AGRINETS 2020)
co-located with ICDCN 2020
January 4 , 2020, 11 AM -1:30 PM,
Venue: Hotel Hindustan International -
Address: 235, 1, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Rd, Sreepally, Elgin, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020
About Agrinet2020
The use of information level intelligence to complement innovation in the agricultural domain is inhibited by the non-existence of a closed-loop informatics solution that allows information gathering, processing and analyzing, decision making, observing consequences, and feeding back for forecasting. To manage precision agriculture over a wide area one needs to develop and deploy robust convergent platforms to process information, fuse, summarize, reason, learn, predict, and deliver actionable intelligence in a timely fashion. The informatics-based intelligence enabled by such platforms can fundamentally transform agricultural practices that can lead to higher yield, more efficient utilization of natural resources, prevention of unforeseen calamities, and crop quality improvement. A robust convergent platform for closed loop acquisition of ground data enables performing analytics and inference to create timely actionable intelligence that can be delivered to field workers, agro-researchers, and farmers through a “knowledge network”. This workshop, co-located with ICDCN 2020, brings together experts in sensor networking, communication, analytics, bigdata, and inference, software engineering, agricultural economics, and remote sensing to discuss this problem, and present the state-of-the-art in the use of informatics-based solutions for accelerating innovation in agriculture and inspire social entrepreneurship in this domain. The key questions that the workshop will focus on are
Can automated way of collecting and communicating ground information together with intelligence analysis help the Agro sector? Can intelligent networks and systems compliment current manual/lab test based information? Can networks and systems help answer the following questions?
- How to increase specific crop productivity
- How to introduce precision farming
- How to forecast crop yield
- What factors lead crop yield and crop quality
- How to decide on irrigation, fertilizer, pesticide application
- How to cross learn from growth patterns to add efficiency
- How to monitor and detect root causes of toxins in food
- How to maximize crop quality
- How to increase food conservation in cold storage
- How to reclaim wastelands damaged by flood, etc.
- How to calculate agroinsurance
- How to map and control soil/water arsenic content
Topics of Interest:
1. Sensor Networks
2. Disadvantaged Networks
3. Combining remote sensing with networks
4. Distributed learning and inference
5. GPRS and other technologies
6. Mobile systems
7. Cyber-physical Systems
8. Farmer education in rural areas
9. Content Delivery
10. Deployment and case studies
Important Deadlines
Paper Submission: 16th October 2019
Deadline for Notification 21st October 2019
Final Version Due 12th November 2019
Workshop Date 4th January 2020
Workshop Timing 11 AM - 1:30 PM
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
11:00-11:05 Introduction: Dr. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
11:05-11:45 Keynote: Dr. Arpan Pal, Chief Scientist, Embedded Systems and Robotics, TCS Research
11:45-12:15 Invited Talk: Dr. Santosh Sam Koshy, Joint Director, CDAC Hyderabad
12:15-12:45 Invited Talk: Dr. Gokarna Sharma, Assistant Professor & Director SCALE Lab, Kent State University
12:45-1:05 Accepted Paper: Prof. Goutam Kumar Sen, ex-Joint Director of School of Environmental Studies and School of Oceanographic Studies of Jadavpur University
1:05-1:25 Panel Discussion: Problems in agriculture in India and the role of research on systems & networks
1;25-1:30 Closing Remarks: Dr. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
Submission Guidelines
AGRINETS 2020 solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted via the submission site on EasyChair in PDF. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages in length. All technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Overall appearance: Submitted papers should adhere to the appearance of the standard IEEE twocolumn format that is used for IEEE Transactions.
Margins: Papers must use a 10pt font on US Letter paper with margins no smaller than 0.75in for the top margin, 1.0in for the bottom margin, and 0.625in for side margins.
Templates: Depending on whether you are using LaTeX or Microsoft Word for formatting your paper, you can download the relevant templates that incorporate the formatting specifications at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Paper Submission
Full papers must be submitted using the EasyChair submission system. If you don't have an EasyChair account, the link will allow you to create one.
After submitting your paper you will receive an automated reply from EasyChair. Some email systems may filter this email as spam - it is very important that you check if this is happening, and rectify it. Subsequent emails about your submission will be sent via EasyChair, and it is important that you receive them. Please direct any questions to the Workshop Co-Chairs.
To submit a paper for the AGRINETS 2020 Workshop, please use the following link:
EasyChair URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agrinets2020
Note: All Workshop papers (full papers - both regular and invited) WILL appear in IEEE Xplore.
Programme Committee
Yogesh Simmhan. IISC
Kishore Kothapalli, IIT Hyderabad
Bivas Mitra, IIT Kharagpur
Souradyuti Paul, IIT Bhilai
Gokarna Sharma, Kent State University
Arnab Ganguly, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
speakers and panelists
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Arpan Pal, Chief Scientist, Embedded Systems and Robotics, TCS Research, received both his B.Tech and M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in Electronics and Telecommunications and PhD. from Aalborg University Denmark. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is engaged in the innovation space in different industry bodies and start-up accelerators. He has more than 26 years of experience in the area of Signal Processing, Communication, Embedded Systems and Robotics. Currently he is with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where, as Chief Scientist, he is heading the Embedded Systems and Robotics Research Area in TCS Research. His research interests include Unobtrusive Sensing, AI-driven Sensor Signal Informatics & Edge Processing for applications in Connected Health, Smart Cities, Smart Enterprises & Industry 4.0; and also Cognitive Robotics & Collaborative Drones for Telepresence & Disaster Handling. Arpan has more than 140 publications and book chapters till date in reputed Journals and Conferences. He has also authored a complete book on IoT. He has filed for more than 100 patents and has 60 patents granted to him. He has been on the editorial board for reputed journals like ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and IT Professional Magazine from IEEE Computer Society.
Home Page - http://research-innovation.tcs.com/research/Pages/Pal-Arpan.aspx
Linked In - http://in.linkedin.com/in/arpanpal
Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=hkKS-xsAAAAJ&hl=en
Invited Talks
Title: Coverage Planning under Constraints
Abstract: Coverage planning is the task of finding a path or a set of paths to cover all the points (locations) in an environment. In robotics, this problem has many potential real-world applications including agricultural data collection, large-scale agriculture, spraying chemicals and painting, autonomous sweeping, vacuum cleaning, lawn mowing and milling, and plant maintenance. The robots may be battery operated or tethered. Some of the objectives include robots collectively cover every point in the environment while minimizing the travelled path length, avoid tangling the cable around obstacles, and minimize queues at charging stations, etc. In this talk, the speaker will survey his recent research on designing efficient algorithms for different variations of the coverage planning problem and outline a rich list of possible future research directions.
Dr. Gokarna Sharma is currently an assistant Professor and the director of Scalable Computer Architecture & Emerging Technologies Laboratory (SCALE) in the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA. Prior to joining KSU, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering division (CSE) at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, LA, USA. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Louisiana State University itself, under the supervision of Prof. Costas Busch. I received my dual degree European Master of Science in Computer Science from Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB), Italy and Institute of Computer Languages at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, under the supervision of Prof. Enrico Franconi and Dr. Peter F. Patel-Schneider. I received my Bachelor in Engineering in Computer Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. I interned as a Summer Consultant at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Summer 2008.
PANEL DISCUSSION:
THEME: Problems in agriculture in India and the role of research on systems & networks
PANELISTS:
Dr. Arpan Pal (see above)
Dr. Santosh Sam Koshy, Joint Director, CDAC Hyderabad
Dr. Gokarna Sharma (see above)
Dr. Supratik Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Louisiana State University, USA. He received his PhD from the Max Planck Institutfuer Informatik and the University of Saarland in 2001, MS from the Indian Statistical Institute, India and his BS from Jadavpur University, India. His areas of specialization include formal verification of software, inference engines, bigdata analytics distributed systems, parallel computing framework and program synthesis
Prof. Goutam Kumar Sen has served as Joint Director of School of Environmental Studies and School of Oceanographic Studies of Jadavpur University for several years. He is a world renowned researcher in the field of climate change, weather, and oceanography. He has worked in several GOI sponsored projects on weather prediction and analytics. He is currently involved in several GOI academic committees and also affiliated with the Library Sciences Department.
Organizing Committee
Subhajit Sidhanta IIT Bhilai
Supratik Mukhopadhyay Louisuiana State University
SPONSORS
CDAC Hyderabad
