First International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems

This workshop is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative Competitive Program, Food & Agriculture Cyber-informatics and Tools Program.

Welcome to the homepage of the First International Workshop on Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems (MLCAS 2018)!

Today, efficient and cost-effective sensors as well as high performance computing technologies are looking to transform traditional plant-based agriculture into an efficient cyber-physical system. The easy availability of cheap, deployable, connected sensor technology has created an enormous opportunity to collect vast amount of data at varying spatial and temporal scales at both experimental and production agriculture levels. Therefore, both offline and real-time agricultural analytics that assimilates such heterogeneous data and provides automated, actionable information is a critical needed for sustainable and profitable agriculture.

At AFITA/WCCA, data analytics and decision-making for Agriculture has been a long-standing application area. The application of advanced machine learning methods to this critical societal need can be viewed as a transformative extension for the agriculture community. In this workshop, we intend to bring together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners in the fields of machine learning, data science and engineering, plant sciences and agriculture, in the collaborative effort of identifying and discussing major technical challenges and recent results related to machine learning-based approaches. It will feature invited talks, oral/poster presentation of accepted papers, and a panel discussion.

Proceedings coming soon.

Date: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018.

Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre, VMCC, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

What's New:

(updated October 8th, 2018)

Workshop date has been changed from Oct 25th, 2018 to Oct 24th, 2018.

Select papers from the workshop to be published in new Journal under AAAS!! - see "Publication of Papers" section in the Call for Papers page.

Poster presentation Guidelines have been updated!!

Program page has been UPDATED!! Please check out the complete MLCAS program!!

Workshop Organization page has been UPDATED!! Please check out the updated Keynote Speaker details!!

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