CIGR Newsletter No 52
CIGR-SPONSORED ACTIVITIES
A chronological list of events in the field of agricultural engineering can also be found in our Events Calendar which can be consulted on CIGR’s Website:
2nd IFAC/CIGR International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems
This event will be held on 25-26 November, 2000 in Osaka, Japan. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting new approaches and results on bioproduction robots including many kinds of automated or autonomous machine systems with or without manipulators, information-oriented technology to deal with variability, and technology intelligence for bioproduction systems.
For further information, please contact: Prof. Naoshi Kondo
Faculty of Agriculture Okayama University 1-1-1, Tsushima-Naka Okayama 700-8530, Japan
E-mail: nkondo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
XIV Memorial CIGR World Congress 2000
The XIV CIGR World Congress will be held on 28 November - 1 December 2000 at the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. This Congress is sponsored by CIGR and the Science Council of Japan and organised by the Japan Association of the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering and the University of Tsukuba in co-operation with AAAE, ALIA, ASAE, EurAgEng and SEASAE. Topics include:
* Land and water use
* Farm buildings, equipment, structures, environment
* Equipment engineering for plant production
* Rural electricity and other energy sources
* Management, ergonomics and systems engineering
* Processing New agricultural technologies in the 21st century: informatics, life support systems, plant factories
* Global agriculture in the 21st century: paddy field agriculture, upland field agriculture, small-scale farming, sustainable bio-production and processing.
Language: English
For detailed information consult our website at:
http://bee2.en.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cigr2000/
For further information, please contact: Dr. H. Nishina, Dept. Biomechanical Systems; Ehime University, Tarumi, Matsuyama 790-8566, Japan. Fax.: +81 89 947 8748;
E-mail: nishina@agr.ehime-u.ac.jp
11th Members’ Meeting of
the Club of Bologna
The meeting is divided into two parts. The first part will take place in Bologna, Italy, from 19-20 November 2000, whereas the second part will be held on occasion of the XIV Memorial CIGR World Congress in Tsukuba City, Japan, from 26-27 November 2000. The meeting is sponsored by UNACOMA, and it is held under the auspices of CIGR. Topics will include:
* New technologies and methods for the evaluation of the quality of perishable agricultural products for the fresh market
* Ethical aspects in manufacturing agricultural machines
For further information contact M. Fiala, Instituto di Ingegneria Agraria, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy; Tel: (02) 236914.20; Fax: (02) 236914.99; email: marco.fiala@unimi.it
19th European Regional Conference of ICID "Sustainable Use of Land and Water"
The conference will take place from 4-8 June 2001 in the Congress Centre Brno in Brno and in Prague, Czech Republic. It is organised by ICID under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic with the help of CIGR Section 1 "Land and Water Use" and EurAgEng Field of Interest "Soil and Water". Conference languages will be English, French, Czech, and Slovak (with simultaneous translation).
The conference will focus on problems of sustainable developments in Europe. Such developments should guarantee an acceptable quality of the environment, competent protection and rational exploitation of natural resources (in particular, soil and water) and an efficient conservation or, if necessary, restoration of the landscape as an environment for people to live in. Activities will include the control of soil-water regime, flood control, erosion control, revitalisation of streams and reservoirs and, in general, all land improvement and land reclamation measures, including irrigation. Subtopics will be:
* Minimisation of impacts of extreme hydrological events in Europe
* Exploitation of irrigation and drainage systems in Europe and elsewhere
* Principles of water management and agricultural policies of the European Union
For further information contact:
ICID, ERC 2001 Organising Committee, c/o Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156 27 Praha 5 – Zbraslav, Czech Republic. phone + 420-2-5792 1640; fax + 420-2 -5792 1246
E-mail: sekretariat@vumop.tel.cz
www.vumop.cz and www.vumop.tel.cz
4th IFAC/CIGR International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture AIA 2001
The meeting will take place from 6-8 June 2001 in Budapest, Hungary. It is organised by the Department of Physics and Process Control, Gödöllö University of Agricultural Sciences, and by the Process Control Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – GUAS. It is supported by CIGR, the International Federation of Automatic Control, TC on Modelling and Control in Agricultural Processes, TC on Intelligent Control in Agricultural Automation, Gödöllö University of Agricultural Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Topics of interest include:
* Fundamental representation issue
* Tools, techniques, algorithms
* Applications and partical issues
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts 31 Oct 2000
Notification of acceptance 15 Jan 2001
Submission of full papers 31 Mar 2001
Early registration 25 Apr 2001
For paper submission and information contact:
Secretariat of the AIA’2001 Workshop; c/o Prof. I. Farkas; Department of Physics and Process Control; University of Agricultural Sciences; Godollo, Páter K. u. 1. H-2103 HUNGARY; Tel: + 36 28 522055; Fax: + 36 28 410804
E-mail: IFARKAS@FFT.GAU.HU
http://fft.gau.hu/events/aia2001.html
International Conference on "Sustainable Soil Management for Environmental Protection: Soil Physical Aspects"
This Conference will be held on 2–7 July, 2001 in Florence, Italy. It is organized by the Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Soil of Florence, in cooperation with: CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use, IUSS (International Union of Soil Science) Commission I: Soil Physics, EurAgEng Field of Interest SW: Soil and Water, European Soil Bureau. The main topics are:
* Soil compaction
* Soil erosion
* Soil hydrology
* Modelling and Databases.
A study tour will be scheduled to the Experimental Centre of the Institute. The conference language will be English.
More information can be obtained from the Chairman of the Organizing and Scientific Committee: Dr. Marcello Pagliai, Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Soil, Piazza M. D’Azeglio 30, 50121 Florence (Italy). Tel.: +39 055 2491255; Fax: +39 055 241485.
E-mail: marcello.pagliai@dada.it
The 2nd IFAC/CIGR/JSAM/CREATA/HimII Workshop on "Intelligent Control for Agricultural Applications"
This event will be held on 22-24 August, 2001 in Bali, Indonesia. Topics will include:
* Genetic algorithms
* Fuzzy methods
* Neuro-fuzzy methods
* Post harvest operations
* Control for precision farming
* Harvesting systems
* Quality and storage automation
* Food processing control
* Ergonomics
* Instrumentation and Measurement
* Robotics for Bio-production and Bio-systems
Deadlines:
Abstracts: 27 Nov 2000
Notification of Authors: 5 Feb 2001
Full Papers: 7 May 2001
For further information go to www.creata-ipb.com/icaaa-ifac
CIGR Section IV International Conference on Intergrated Renewable Energy for Regional Development–CIRERD 2001
The conference will be held in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, from 28-31 August 2001. Main points of the conference are:
* Renewable energy for rural household (food and fuel)
* Renewable energy applications for agricultural production
* Renewable energy for small and medium scale industries
* Supply and demand modeling of renewable energy for integrated rural development
* Government policy on renewable energy (country report)
* Experiences gained from renewable energy pilot projects
Important dates:
Abstracts 1 Nov 2000
Notification of Authors 1 Feb 2001
Full Papers 1 May 2001
For further inforamtion contact the Conference Secretariat,
CIRERD 2001 Secretariat, c.q. CREATA-Research Institute-IPB, Darmaga Campus PO Box 220 Bogor 16002, INDONESIA; Tel./Fax: 62-251-621886/7
e-mail:cirerd01@indo.net.id; www.creata-ipb.com/cirerd
International Workshop on Sustainable Management of Irrigated Crops
The Workshop is organized by the ICID Committee on Sustinable Use of Natural Resources for Crops Production, together with CIGR Section I, the Korean National Committee of ICID-KNCID, the Italian Committee of ICID-ITALICID, as a part of the 52nd ICID International Executive Meeting, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea in September 2001. As co-sponsors appear EurAgEng Field of Interest on Soil and Water, CIHEAM/MAI-B, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari, Italy, the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and ICARDA. The language will be English. Topics:
* Observation, monitoring and control
* Strategy and policy tools for reducing/minimizing adverse impacts of fertilizers and pesticides
* Use of poor quality water for irrigation
* Waterlogging and salinity risk
* New crop cultivars
Deadlines:
Receipt of full-length manuscript 1 Feb 2001
Receipt of final manuscript 1 Jun 2001
For further information contact the Secretariat: Dr. R. Ragab, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BB, UK; Tel: +44-1491-692303; Fax: +44-1491-692424; E-mail: Rag@ceh.ac.uk
International Symposium on Agricultural Buildings of CIGR Section II
This symposium will be held on 3-7 September, 2001 in Campinas, SP, Brazil. It is organised by CIGR Section II: Farm Building, Equipment, Structures and Environment in co-operation with the Brazilian Society of Agricultural Engineering (SBEA) and the Brazilian Agricultural and Animal Research Company (Embrapa). It is organised by the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP The official language will be English with a translation to Portuguese. Topics:
Landscape and planning
Construction: materials and technique
Climatisation: environmental aspects
Architectural layout
Infrastructure
Research institutes, universities and related industrial companies are invited to present results in oral and poster sessions. General Correspondence:
AgriBuilding 2001, FEAGRI – UNICAMP. Caixa Postal 6011, 13081-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Tel.: +55-19-788-1039; Fax: +55-19-788-1010,
E-mail:
International Workshop on
Wastewater Reuse Management
The Workshop is organized by the ICID Work Team on Use of Poor Quality Water together with CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use, the Korean National Committee of ICID-KNCID, the British Section of ICID, and CIHEAM/MAI-B, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari, Italy, as a part of 52nd ICID International Executive Council Meeting, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea in September 2001. As co-sponsors appear EurAgEng: Soil and Water Group, the World Bank, and the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association, NOWRA, USA. Topics will include:
* Technology
* Health related issues
* Environmental impacts
* Cost effectiveness
* Soil – crop – water management
* Planing and institutional aspects
Abstracts (max 600 words) should be directed to the Secretariat. The language will be English. Deadlines:
Submission of 600 words abstracts 1 Sep 2000
Notification of acceptance or rejection 1 Nov 2000
Receipt of full-length manuscript 1 Feb 2001
Receipt of final manuscript 1 Jun 2001
For further information contact the Secretariat:
Dr. R. Ragab, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BB, UK. Tel:+44-1491-692303; Fax: +44-1491-692424; E-mail: Rag@ceh.ac.uk
CAPPT2001 – 3rd IFAC/CIGR Workshop on Control Application in Post-Harvest and Processing Technology.
This event will be held on 3-5 October, 2001 in Tokyo, Japan.
The main points of the workshop are:
* Optimal control, intelligent control, Fuzzy control
* Measurement and modelling of crop or product responses for quality enhancement during storage of processing
* Identification of control structures based on plant responses
* Intelligent, crop based decision criteria
* Effect of product variability on control strategy
* Compartments and instruments for control in processing and storage
Deadlines:
Call for papers: 30 Nov 2000
Abstracts: 31 Mar 2001
Notification of authors: 15 May 2001
Full papers: 15 July 2001
For further Information, please contact: Prof. S. Oshita, Graduate School of Agri. & Life Sci.; Dep. of Biological & Environmental Eng.; University of Tokyo; Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 111-8657; Japan
CIGR Section II Symposium on
"Animal Welfare Considerations in Livestock Housing Systems"
The meeting will take place from 22-24 October 2001 at the Technical University of Zielona Góra, Poland. It is supported by CIGR Section II, the Polish Committee of Agricultural Engineering, the Agricultural University of Wroclaw, and the Technical University of Zielona Góra. The symposium language will be English, and the main topics of the symposium will be:
* Farm animal welfare: the contemporary context
* Testing methodologies, techniques and equipment
* Influence of housing systems on animal health
* Influence of housing systems and stockperson attitude on animal welfare
* Environmental effects on animal stress, behavior and productivity.
* Effect of animal welfare considerations on technical solutions of livestock housing and equipment.
* Animal welfare in the context of other concerns about animal agriculture
* Genetic aspects of animal welfare
* Economic constraints and incentives in promoting farm animal welfare
Call for papers
Short (max 300 words) abstracts for paper or poster presentations should be sent by mail, fax or e-mail to the Symposium Secretariat by November 15, 2000. The program committee will review the abstracts and notify authors of acceptance by March 1, 2001.
For inquireies contact Symposium Secretariat:
Department of Agricultural Buildings, Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Pl. Grunwaldzki 24, 50 363 Wroclaw, Poland; Tel: +48 71 320 55 26; Fax: +48 71 320 55 84; E-mail: ibr@ozi.ar.wroc.pl;
or Prof. Tadeusz Kuczynski, Technical University of Zielona Góra, ul. prof. Zygmunta Szafrana 2, 65 016 Zielona Góra, Poland; Fax: +48 71 337 13 82; E-mail: t.kuczynski@wm.pz.zgora.pl
Also check the following web pages: www.pz.zgora.pl/cigr/ or www.ar.wroc.pl/english/conferences/index.html
