Dear Colleague, I am Sumant Martin D., a Staff Scientist at the National Center for Software Technology (NCST), Mumbai, India (http://www.ncst.ernet.in). We, at NCST, are organizing an international conference on Artificial Intelligence, called: Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS-2002). (http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2002/ I am sending you the details about this conference announcement. If you've received this email, please note that the *DEADLINE* for paper submission *has been EXTENDED*. I seek your apologies if you have already seen this announcement. regards, Sumant Martin D. KBCS-2002 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS Mumbai, India, December 18 - 21, 2002 http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2002 Call for Papers: Deadline Extended to August 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: ================================================================ The deadline for paper submission to KBCS2002 has been extended to August 31, 2002. International authors, please note that the travel advisory for India by the US Department of State and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been relaxed. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=16779990 http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jul/23war.htm KBCS is the premium International AI Conference held in India. Don't miss out on it! ================================================================ The KBCS series of conferences, held every two years, is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. The schedule includes a three-day conference on KBCS from Dec 19-21, and one day of tutorials, on the 18th. Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to those given below. This year, ICON-2002, International Conference on Natural Language Processing, will be held concurrently with KBCS-2002. Authors may, therefore, choose to submit papers focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to ICON-2002. KBCS-2002 will also consider NLP papers provided they have substantial AI content. The programme committee may shift some papers between these two conferences based on content and suitability. Topics for the Conference: -------------------------- Case Based Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Data Mining Expert Systems Foundations of AI Fuzzy Logic Genetic Algorithms Intelligent Agents Intelligent Tutoring Systems Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Representation Knowledge Management Intelligent Information Retrieval * Machine Learning Machine Translation * Natural Language Processing * Neural Networks Planning and Scheduling Reasoning Robotics Search Techniques Soft Computing Speech Processing Theorem Proving Uncertainty Handling Vision * overlapping areas with ICON Format of Submission: --------------------- Papers should be in English, not exceeding 5000 words (including figures and references). 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. Authors should also exercise care to see that there are no indirect clues to the identity of the author or the institution (e.g. self-citations reading 'in our earlier work cited below' ... etc) Submissions should be in electronic form and can be in any of the following formats: PDF, Latex or Microsoft Word (RTF format). Papers may be submitted by E-mail or via the web at the URL given. Those who are unable to make electronic submissions may send four hard copies of the paper. Papers selected for the conference will be published in the proceedings. Call for Tutorials: ------------------- Proposals are invited for conference tutorials. Tutorials can be of half-day or full-day duration. 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. Submission Deadlines: --------------------- Papers Due: August 31, 2002 Acceptance Notification: October 10, 2002 Camera Ready Copy Due: November 5, 2002 Tutorial Proposals Due: August 31, 2002 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2002 Materials Due: November 25, 2002 Address: -------- KBCS-2002 Secretariat National Centre for Software Technology Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9 Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India Phone: +91-22-6201606 Fax: +91-22-6210139 E-mail: kbcs@ncst.ernet.in For ICON-2002: http://www.iiit.net/conferences/icon2002.html E-mail: icon2002@iiit.net Advisory Committee: ------------------- Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada J.R. Isaac,Professor Emeritus, IIT Mumbai Aravind K. Joshi, U of Pennsylvania, USA H.N. Mahabala, Indian Inst. of IT, Bangalore R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore P.V.S. Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd., Mumbai Programme Committee: -------------------- K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, ESN Tech Ltd., Hyderabad Vivek Balaraman, TRDDC, Pune Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Mumbai PP Chakraborti, IIT Kharagpur B.B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta R. Chandrasekar, Microsoft, USA S. Kambhampati, Arizona State Univ, USA M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore Bernd Neumann, Univ Hamburg, Germany Arun K Pujari, Univ of Hyderabad, Hyderabad S. Ramani, HP India, Bangalore P.V.S. Rao, TataInfotech, Mumbai (Chair) Durgesh D. Rao, NCST, Mumbai P. Saint-Dizier, U of Paul Sabatier, France K. Samudravijaya, TIFR, Mumbai R. Sangal, IIIT, Hyderabad M. Sasikumar, NCST, Mumbai (Co-chair) S. Sen Gupta, Tata Infotech, Mumbai R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (Co-chair)