COST Action – Mathematical and Computer Science Methods for Food Science and Industry (FoodMC)
At a glance
- Project leader : Selçuk Yildirim
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : EU and other international programmes (COST Action / CA15118 - FoodMC)
- Contact person : Selçuk Yildirim
Description
The agriculture and food processing sector (agri-food) is facing
sustainability challenges of growing complexity, from consumer
expectations to concerns over food security, right through to
environmental regulations. In such a context, innovation is
becoming a decisive factor of competitiveness for companies in this
field. Methodologies and tools from Maths and Computer Science
(MCS) are emerging as key contributors to modernization and
optimization of processes in various disciplines: the agri-food
sector, however, is not a traditional domain of application for
MCS, and at the moment there is no community organized around
solving the issues of this field.
This COST Action (CA15118) brings together scientists and
practitioners from MCS and agri-food domains, stimulating the
emergence of new research, and structuring a new community to
coordinate further investigation efforts. Exploiting approaches
originating from different sub-fields of Mathematical and Computer
Sciences from applied mathematical models to knowledge engineering,
FoodMC will cover two main topics: understanding and controlling
agri-food processes; and eco-design of agri-food products.