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



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Papers are  invited  on  substantial,  original  and unpublished  research  on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)
S. Karthik, NCST
Parag A. Mahadane, NCST
Mandar Padhye, NCST

* - To be confirmed

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:                      July 31, 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:   kbcs@ncst.ernet.in
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India