Call for Papers

Submissions are now closed. The deadline was 27th August 2021.



CALL FOR PAPERS | AAAI 2021 Fall Symposium

Where AI Meets Food Security: Intelligent Approaches to Climate-Aware Agriculture (WAIF)

Overview. This cross-disciplinary symposium brings together international participants from three key audiences:

(1) researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and/or Robotics;

(2) Agriculture and/or Climate scientists; and

(3) industry, government, and policy stakeholders.

The aim is to engage these groups in broad discussion and multi-disciplinary exploration of the many ways in which AI-grounded tools and techniques can be applied to reshape global agriculture. The symposium focuses on the agriculture domain, with emphasis on climate-aware methods, including smart approaches to water and soil monitoring and management, as well as decision making in agricultural production, through the use of intelligent, data-driven, adaptive, trustworthy, science-based models (e.g. to support management, prediction, and long-term planning). Internationally renowned experts in these areas will participate through invited talks and panel discussions, introducing concepts and challenges to AI researchers. Interested participants from the AI community who address these issues are invited to submit papers.

Topics. Topics of interest include both Technical and Practice streams, as described below.

  • Technical papers that advance the state-of-the-art by applying AI, ML, and/or Robotics to agriculture:

  • Deep Learning

  • Computer/Machine Vision/Image Processing

  • Data Mining

  • Sensor Fusion

  • Reinforcement Learning

  • Interactive Learning

  • Active Learning

  • Multi-agent Systems

Practice papers that describe current uses of AI, ML, and/or Robotics in agricultural applications, the role of integrating soil, water, and/or climate modeling into agricultural models, the role of AI on agricultural economics, and/or demonstrations of beta and in production applications:

  • Agriculture

  • Water

  • Soil

  • Climate

  • Economics

The symposium will include presentations of accepted papers in oral, panel, and/or demonstration formats. Authors are invited to submit either a full-length technical paper (up to 7 pages without references) or a short paper (up to 3 pages without references) as a position paper, practice paper, work in progress, system demonstration, or panel discussions. Please use the AAAI formatting guidelines available here: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit21.zipSubmission. Instructions will be available here: https://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss21.php


Submission. Instructions will be available here:


Important Dates. Papers are due on Friday 27th August 2021 (any time on earth). *** DEADLINE EXTENDED!!! ***


Organizers. Prof Elizabeth Sklar, Univ of Lincoln, UK; Dr. Audrey Reinert, Univ of Oklahoma, US; Prof David Ebert, Univ of Oklahoma, US; Prof Melba Crawford, Purdue Univ, US; and Prof Peter Wilson, Univ of Bath, UK.


Contact. Prof Elizabeth Sklar (esklar@lincoln.ac.uk) or Dr. Audrey Reinert (areinert@ou.edu)