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HAICTA 2017, 8th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment
21-24 September, CHANIA, Crete, Greece

>>> Post-conference proceedings will be published at Springer

>>> Organisation
The Conference is co-organized by the Hellenic Association for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA) and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) in cooperation with a number of Institutions.
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
- University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Technical University of Crete, Greece

HAICTA is the Greek Branch of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (EFITA). Until now HAICTA has organized a series of seven successful international conferences.

HAICTA 2017 aims to bring together professionals, experts and researchers working on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment. We additionally aim to emphasize on the applicability of ICT solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges.

>>> Topics
We accept submissions in all areas of ICT in Agriculture, Food and the Environment including but not limited to:
- Information Systems
- Web Applications
- Database Systems and Data Mining
- Decision Support Systems
- Innovations in Food Hygiene and the Production of High Quality Food
- Quality Assurance and Certification of Innovative Food Products
- E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Sales, E-Marketing and E-Services
- Innovative Uses of Agricultural By-products and Waste Management
- Traceability Systems
- Innovation in Short Value Chains in Rural Areas
- Modeling and Simulation in Climate Change
- Water Resources Management
- Environmental Design and Policy
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Epidemics Modelling
- Internet of Things, Sensor, RFID and Mobile/Wireless Network Applications
- Precision Farming Systems, Variable Rate Technologies
- Farm and Animal Health Monitoring and Data Recording Systems
- Efficient Irrigation Technologies and Water Quality Monitoring
- Fish Health and Product Quality Monitoring in Aquaculture
- Genomics and Biotechnologies in Genetic Improvement
- Diffusion of Innovation in Rural Areas
- E-networking, Collective Actions and E-governance in Rural Areas
- E-learning, Interactive Systems and Web-based Farmer Education
- ICT and Innovation in the Promotion of Rural Areas and Alternative Tourism
- Wood Technology and Wood Products
- Wildfire Risk Assessment
- Information Systems and Wildlife Management & Protection
- Spatial Analysis, Landscape Planning and GIS-based Analysis
- Supply Chain Management & Logistics

>>> Types of Submission

Type of Submission	Length of Paper	Type of Presentation
Full Paper	6 pages min. - 12 pages max.	Oral
Poster	3 pages min. - 6 pages max.	Poster
Doctoral Consortium	3 pages min. - 10 pages max.	Oral
Industry Paper	3 pages min. - 10 pages max.	Demo - Oral
Short Paper	3 pages min. - 6 pages max.	Oral

>>> Paper submission
All papers will be reviewed through a fully electronic peer review process by at least two referees. Final acceptance will be based on the review of the paper submission. Paper submissions will be handled by an ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM that has been set up for HAICTA 2017.

>>> Publication
All accepted papers and posters will be published in the conference proceedings which will be deposited online before the conference in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service, from where they will be permanently available online and citable. After the Conference, selected papers will be invited to significantly extend and re-submit for publication in two books of collective work that will be published in Springer. The first book, already agreed, will be published in the Springer CCIS conference book series. The second will be a book of chapters that will be published in Springer’s Earth System Sciences series (confirmation pending). Also, selected papers will be invited for a special issue in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology.

>>> Important Dates
> March 13, 2017
Submissions due (for every type of submission: full research and short papers, posters, doctoral consortium, industry papers).

> April 17, 2017
Notification of acceptance for all submissions.

> May 08, 2017
Camera Ready Paper Submission.

> 21-24 September, 2017
Conference in Chania, Crete, Greece.

>>> Tutorials
We invite proposals for tutorials to be held during the conference. Proposals should be submitted electronically by March 30, 2017 to scientific committee chairs. A summary of the tutorials will be published in the conference proceedings. Please check the Conference website for the list of tutorials.

>>> Conference Secretariat
For any further information you can contact the conference secretariat at haicta2017(a)gmail.com or the program chairs.
See: http://2017.haicta.gr/

Further to the e-Book details reported in the #761 Newsletter
ICT methodologies in agriculture and rural development remain a model for other related fields of development, relevant innovative concepts and activities such as disruptive innovation, population pollution, market chains (F2F), mobile information literacy, spillovers, vertical agriculture, drone managed PA, reversed urbanization and many more.

With that noted the last decade’s e-Book’s performance stats (below) confirm the ongoing pressure of demand for ICT’s development, overall innovation, dissemination methodologies and implementation. The two tables elaborate these descriptions*.

>>> Table 1. Decade Summary of e-Book’s activities

Date	Visits	Pages	Files	Hits
29-Dec-2016	3258	3851	128715	484342
13-Jan-2016	3719	4427	127778	666642
06-Jan-2015	4651	5459	117825	696296
01-Jan-2014	4196	4947	122450	777960
16-Jan-2013	3936	4835	92119	601640
02-Jan-2012	4642	5868	82581	535028
02-Jan-2011	5294	6581	57721	311287
28-Jan-2010	4202	5781	46566	225168
01-Jan-2009	4256	5933	34271	112166
08-Jan-2008	3786	5487	25976	55627
31-Jan-2007	3544	5028	18802	38927

	2013	2014	2015	2016*
U.S.A	32792	32457	32989	35900
India	42629	33052	26384	16368
Philippines	27204	18940	14775	10517
S. Africa	15342	12317	14550	10618
Ethiopia	12756	12392	11928	9259
Kuwait	2376	4564	7557	5961
Malaysia	11091	8222	6844	3815
Nigeria	5931	5537	6216	2039
U.K.	9170	8718	5714	4180
Kenya	9416	7522	4847	3420
Japan	2647	1881	4434	3970
China	1839	2191	3904	3986