CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

[Alfredo José Barreto Luiz <alfredo@cnpma.embrapa.br>]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Proposal Submission Deadline: February 27, 2009

Computational Methods Applied to Agricultural Research: Advances and Applications

A book edited by Dr. Hércules Antonio do Prado^1,2, Dr. Alfredo José Barreto Luiz¹ and Dr. Homero Chaib Filho¹

¹Embrapa – Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

²Catholic University of Brasília

 

To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=594

Introduction

Agricultural research refers to the application of broad scientific knowledge to problems found in the agriculture context. This book aims at providing a comprehensive and up-to-date reference on computational methods applied to agricultural research. In the last 3 decades, the increasing need for an adequate management of agricultural production in the world has motivated many initiatives on the production side. Initially, this led to the expansion of farmable land. Now, this expansion will reach its limits in the near future. Considering the drastic reduction in the availability of crop fields and the mandatory sustainability of production, a huge research effort to overcome the productivity limits is necessary. Innovations in the way we explore natural resources are required, especially in regards to sustainable development. In the context of maximizing and sustaining resources, computational tools, like simulation models, remote sensing, expert systems, machine learning, bioinformatics, data/text mining, and descriptive data analysis, allow for the analysis of large data sets, creating understanding for decision making. Such techniques have been extensively applied to support agricultural research. The proposed book will convey successful cases in which computational techniques have led to improved results in solving agricultural research problems. We are interested in ground results and the related conceptual approaches rather than generic theoretical models. This book is mainly addressed to those researchers and students that are looking for practical applications of sound theories.

 

Objective of the Book

The proposed book aims at providing a comprehensive text of the best and most up –to-date results in computational methods applied to the agricultural research. This book will provide researchers and practitioners of agricultural development with a powerful tool to improve results when searching for solutions to the serious problem of managing agricultural production in the world. By gathering the most relevant results in computational methods applied to agricultural research, this book will be a reference for a large, world wide audience that includes academia, governmental, and non-governmental agencies.

 

Target Audience

The target audience is scholars, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students in the agriculture field from universities all around the world and researchers at governmental and non-governmental agencies interested in applying advanced methods to support the current agricultural research practices.

 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Methods for assessing the agricultural expansion dynamics

Use of multi-agent systems for agricultural decision making

Qualitative reasoning for conceptual modeling in agricultural research

Methods for estimating the agricultural production

Building prospective scenarios for agricultural research planning

Building taxonomies from textual files

Environmental impact analysis

Clustering analysis in genetic sequencing

Connectionist models for agricultural typology

Methods for weather forecasting

Modeling pedotransfer functions with connectionist models

Image processing for fraud detection in the agricultural research

Geographical information systems for natural resources management

Methods for uncertainty assessment

Meta-analysis applied in groups of field experiments

 

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 27, 2009, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 15, 2009 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 31, 2009. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

 

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2009.

 

Important Dates:

February 27, 2009:         Proposal Submission Deadline

March 15, 2009:             Notification of Acceptance

May 31, 2009:                 Full Chapter Submission

September 17, 2009:      Review Result Returned

October 17, 2009:          Final Chapter Submission

 

Editorial Advisory Board Members:

Dr. Carlos Romero Espanha, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Dr. Cláudio Chauke Nehme Brasil, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil

Dr. Eduardo Delgado Assad, Embrapa Agriculture Informatics, Brazil

Dr. Eliseu Roberto de Andrade Alves, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Brazil

Dr. Fernando Luis Garagorry Cassales, Embrapa Management and Strategy, Brazil

Dr. Lucinio Júdez Asencio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Dr. Miguel de Castro Neto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Dr. Russell S. Yost, University of Hawaii, USA

Dr. Wilson Alberto Contreras Espinosa, Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia

 

 

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:

Dr. Hércules Antonio do Prado, Dr. Alfredo José Barreto Luiz or Dr. Homero Chaib Filho

                                                                                                {hercules@ucb.br, alfredo@cnpma.embrapa.br, homero@cpac.embrapa.br}

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