2009 World Congress of Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources

The call for papers is available for the 2009 World Congress of Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources to be held at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada concurrently with the 2009 ASABE Annual International Meeting, June 21-24. Deadline for proposal submission is January 16, 2009.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Adoption, Extension and Rural Development
  
• Data Mining and Pattern Recognition
  
• Decision support Systems
  
• e-AgBusiness and Production Chain Management
  
• Education/Training, Distance Learning and Professional Accreditation
  
• eLearning and eJournals
  
• Emerging ICT Technologies
  
• Farm Management
  
• Field Data Acquisition and Recording
  
• Food Safety Control/Tracking-Tracing
  
• GIS
  
• Grid Computing Applications
  
• Information Systems and Databases
  
• Instrumentation and Control /Data Acquisition, Monitoring and Sensing
  
• Knowledge Management, Ontologies, Semantics and Text Mining
  
• Web Services, Portals, Internet and Web 2.0 Applications
  
• Library Science and Knowledge Representation
  
• Modeling and Simulation; Packaging Science and Technology
  
• Portable and Nomadic Computing; Precision Agriculture
  
• Rural and Environmental Development and Policy
  
• Traceability, Food Safety and Marketing
  
• Wireless and Sensor Network

To submit a paper proposal, please visit www.asabe.org/meetings/cfp/call.cfm?mtg_code=wcca2009.

WCCA is a collaborative effort among agricultural information technology associations worldwide. This congress provides a forum for agriculture related professionals to exchange information on applications and developments in the use of Information Technologies.