K B C S 2000
Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Mumbai, India
December 17-19, 2000
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2000/
Sponsored by
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) -- TC12, and
Computer Society of India (CSI)
In Cooperation with
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Mumbai Chapter
*** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15th August 2000. ***
The conference is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among
researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad.
There will be a two-day conference during December 18-19, 2000, preceded by a
day of pre-conference tutorials on December 17, 2000.
Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on
all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the
following:
o Case Based Reasoning o Machine Learning
o Cognitive Modeling o Machine Translation
o Data Mining o Natural Language Processing
o Expert Systems o Neural Networks
o Foundations of AI o Planning and Scheduling
o Fuzzy Logic o Reasoning
o Genetic Algorithms o Robotics
o Intelligent Agents o Search Techniques
o Intelligent Information Retrieval o Soft Computing
o Intelligent Tutoring Systems o Speech Processing
o Knowledge Acquisition o Theorem Proving
o Knowledge Representation o Uncertainty Handling
o Knowledge Management o Vision
Advisory Committee
J.R. Isaac, NIIT, New Delhi
Aravind K. Joshi, U of Pennsylvania, USA
H.N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore
P.V.S. Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd., Navi Mumbai
Nick Cercone, U of Regina, Canada
S.K. Goyal, GTE Labs, USA
Programme Committee
K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, ESN Tech Ltd., Hyderabad
S. Arunkumar, IIT, Mumbai
Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Mumbai
B.B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta
R. Chandrasekar, Microsoft, USA
S. Sen Gupta, Tata Infotech, Mumbai
Jan Komorowski, NUST, Norway
Brian Mayoh, U of Aarhus, Denmark
M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
Bernd Neumann, Univ Hamburg, Germany
P. Ravi Prakash, NCST, Mumbai
S. Ramani, Silverline, Mumbai (Chair)
Durgesh D. Rao, NCST, Mumbai
P. Saint-Dizier, U of Paul Sabatier, France
R. Sangal, CALTS, Hyderabad
M. Sasikumar, NCST, Mumbai
R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (Co-chair)
Organizing Committee
George Arakal, NCST (Chair)
Bhavesh Busa, NCST
Jayprasad Hegde, NCST
Parag A. Mahadane, NCST
Kavitha Mohanraj, NCST
Mandar Padhye, NCST
Rahul Vakil, NCST
Format of Submission
Authors should submit their papers, not to exceed 5000 words (including
figures and references). Papers should be in English. Papers should include
an abstract of about 100-200 words. Papers outside the specified length are
subject to rejection without review. Since reviewing will be "blind", the
authors' names and affiliations along with the main area of the paper should
be given only on a separate cover sheet.
Those submitting by hard copy should send four copies of the paper. Papers
in electronic form can be in any of the following formats: plain text,
Postscript, PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF format). Submissions in
electronic form are preferred. Electronic submissions can be made by e-mail
or via the web at the URL given above.
Papers selected for the conference will be published as proceedings under IFIP
copyright.
Submission Deadlines
Papers:
o Due: August 15, 2000
o Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2000
o Camera Ready Copy Due: October 30, 2000
Call for Tutorials
Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be of
half-day or full-day duration and will be held on December 17th, 2000. The
proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page
topical outline of the content and bio-data of the speakers including their
qualifications relating to the tutorial content.
Tutorial Proposals:
o Due: August 30, 2000
o Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2000
o Materials due: November 25, 2000
Address
KBCS-2000 Secretariat Phone: +91 (22) 620 1606 Ext. 371
National Centre for Software Technology Fax: +91 (22) 621 0139
Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India
