------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------- International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Agriculture --- SSA'2021 --- Virtual Conference, March 29-30, 2021 http://www.adda-association.org/ssa-2021/ The goal of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of Smart and Sustainable Agriculture. SSA 2021 attendees will appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges on these hot topics. SSA 2021 will be held virtually from March 29th to March 30th 2021. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal, to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa2021 Topics of interest include any aspects that are related, connected and/or could be of benefits to smart agriculture. This includes and is not limited to: * Communication and Networking * Internet of Things * Data processing for smart agriculture * Long range IoT (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT) * Satellite Communication * Time Synchronization * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Sensor Networks * Quality-of-Service * Protocol optimization * Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences * Secure Services and Protocols * Energy Efficiency * Standards and norms * Security and privacy * Machine learning and Big Data * Application for smart agriculture * Autonomous systems * Image processing * Testbeds and platforms * Robotics and energy efficient devices * Renewable-energy based devices * Low-cost solutions for wide-area exploitations and developing countries * Smart agriculture and urban farming * Smart irrigation * Application to small-size and large-size exploitations * Application of ancestral farming to smart agriculture * Waste management for agriculture 2.0 * Census of regional ancestral farming Position papers are also welcome and should be clearly marked as such. Important dates --------------- Paper submission: January 22, 2021 Notification of acceptance: February 05, 2021 Final manuscripts due: February 19, 2021 Conference: March 29-30, 2021 Submission ---------- Submissions must not be published or submitted to a journal and/or conference / workshop with proceedings. All submissions should be anonymous (i.e., no author names/affiliations and obvious citations). Submissions are to be made to the submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa2021 Only pdf files are accepted. Submissions not meeting the above guidelines will be rejected without other consideration. Authors of accepted papers must present their papers. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper. Best paper award ---------------- All papers are eligible for the best paper award. The award will be announced at the conference.