The CITA25 Doctoral Symposium is co-located with the ANSALB International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (CITA2025) and held from June 26 to 28, 2025, at ISBA, Champs de “Foire, Cotonou, Benin (West Africa)”.
The CITA25 doctoral symposium is intended to attract postgraduate researchers with a strong background in AI and IT security. It has allowed the PhD students to present and discuss their research internationally, fostering interactions between students and researchers from academia and industry.
Experienced researchers in Agriculture 3.0, including AI, machine learning, deep learning, and computer security, offered guidance to PhD students on various aspects of completing a PhD and conducting successful research. Short papers (up to four pages for technical content and one page for references) and regular papers (5+ pages), written by students and their research advisors, were collected.
The conference has called for regular research and workshop papers with a focus on the following areas of interest, but not limited to:
Agriculture 4.0 and digital transformation Data security and digital inclusion Sustainability and resilience of agricultural and food systems
Specific applications and case studies The doctoral symposium received 25 papers submitted from local and internal PhD students in the 3rd edition. Eleven papers were accepted for this volume following a rigorous peer review process, supported by international reviewers.
The call for papers was announced via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/cfp/CITA-2025) and the conference/workshop page (https://www.cita-ansalb.bj/call). The organizers and TPC members have shared calls for papers on their networks The Submission link is: h ps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cita20250
Review Process and Reviewers Each committee member was committed to reviewing at least 3 papers. The organizers requested renowned researchers in the field to review one paper and provided a review questionnaire to support the reviewer in their review process.
CITA 2025— Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Agriculture, 26-28 June 2025, Cotonou, Benin
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Each paper was reviewed by two different reviewers. In certain cases, a third reviewer was requested to.
The CITA24 joined scientists from Germany, Benin, France, Ghana, Tunisia, Arabia Saudi, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, the United Kingdom, Cote d’Ivoire, Canada, and the USA. The committee members:
Members of the ANSALB (Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts, Lettres du Bénin)
Thierry Oscar Codjo EDOH