WCAMA 2021
12th Workshop of Applied Computing for the Management of the Environment and Natural Resources
http://wcama.wordpress.com

Co-located with XLI Brazilian Computer Society Congress
http://www.sbc.org.br/csbc2021/

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

-] Introduction
The 12th Workshop on Applied Computing for Environmental and Natural Resources Management (WCAMA) aims to promote the effective integration of the computing area (methodologies and tools) with environmental issues (policy and management).

Natural resource management is a complex and dynamic activity and requires the integration between actors in the social, political and technological fields to be effectively developed and implemented.

In this context, we aim to discuss the development of methodologies and tools for the management of the environment and natural resources. More specifically, efforts are made to effectively address: i) management and communication between large volumes of data; ii) the development of techniques for analyzing these data, and iii) optimization, control, and integration of the generated data.

This year, due to the pandemic, the format of the event will be online.

-] Scope
The workshop will cover the whole range of research and applications in methodologies, techniques and computational tools applied to environmental management and natural resources, including (but not limited to):

Biodiversity informatics
Control of air pollution
Ecosystem Services
Environmental education
Environmental fragility
Environmental monitoring
Environmental policies
Environmental readaptation
Environmental sanitation and waste treatment
Environmental sustainability
Flooded areas and wetlands
Global environmental changes
Health and environment
Land use and land cover change modeling
Landscape ecology
Natural and renewable resources management
Noise and environment
Priority areas for conservation
Reduction of gas emissions
Society and environment
Soil pollution
Solid waste management
Species distribution modeling
Transport and environment
Urban ecology

-] Papers Format
WCAMA 2021 will accept two types of submission:

. Full Papers between 6 (six) and 10 (ten) pages.
. Abstract Papers/Software Demonstrations between 2 (two) and 4 (four) pages. This kind of paper must present a specification or proposal of software within the scope of the workshop.

Papers must be written in Portuguese or English, following the Brazilian Computer Society template (http://tinyurl.com/sbc-template-artigos).

Manuscripts must be submitted without the authors’ names and affiliations (double-blind review). Papers that do not follow these procedures will be rejected.

-] Paper Submission
Submission must be electronic using the JEMS system at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/csbc2021_wcama.

-] Proceedings
WCAMA proceedings will be published in digital format at SBC Open Lib (SOL).

We will select Full Papers from those presented and published in the annals of WCAMA 2021 based on the quality of the works and the presentations’ quality during the event. We will invite those papers’ authors to submit to the “Nativa” Magazine: Agricultural and Environmental Research (ISSN 2318-7670) for adequacy of formatting and other editorial aspects.

“Nativa” Magazine: Agricultural and Environmental Research
https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/nativa/

-] Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2021.
Notification of accepted papers: May 21, 2021.
Author registration: June 4, 2021.
Camera-ready version: June 4, 2021.
WCAMA 2021: July 20-21, 2021.
CSBC 2021: July 18-23, 2021.

-] Presentation of Papers
The organizers reserve the right not to include in the proceedings those works that, during the event, are not presented by one of its authors or by a designated representative.

-] Event Registration
The paying registration of at least one article author is mandatory for insertion of the article in the proceedings of each event. Authors with more than one approved article at any event may pay a single entry, plus an “extra publication fee” per additional article. The value of this “extra publication fee” is under discussion with the event organizers.

-] Chairs
Geral Chair:
Josiel Figueiredo, UFMT - josiel@ic.ufmt.br
Local Chair:
Rudimar Luís Scaranto Dazzi, UNIVALI - rudimar@univali.br
Program Chairs:
Marilton Sanchotene de Aguiar, UFPel - marilton@inf.ufpel.edu.br
Celia Ghedini Ralha, UnB - ghedini@unb.br
Publication Chair:
Fabiane Benitti, UFSC - fabiane.benitti@ufsc.br