The International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2000) will be held at Bhubaneswar, India, during 21-23 December, 2000 CIT has established itself as a successful annual international conference in Information Technology in India. It provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. The earlier conference CIT'98 and CIT'99 were held in Bhubaneswar in December with active participation of academia and IT Industries. Participants from 10 different countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia have attended the conference. The conference arranges invited talks, special sessions and tutorials on cutting edge topics in Information Technology. CIT’98 and CIT’99 organized tutorials in mobile data and transaction management, electronic data security, internet protocol, web warehouse design, etc. About 500 participants attended these previous meetings.

For CIT2000, the following have kindly given their consent to be key-note and invited speakers:

Keynote Speakers:

    December 21, 2000

• Dr. C. Kintala, Director, Network Software Res., Bell-Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
• Dr. S. Noguchi,President, University of Aizu, Japan
• Dr. G. Thomas, Professor & Former Provost, NJIT, USA

    December 22, 2000

• Dr. K. Ramamirtham, U. Massachusetts (USA) & IIT Mumbai
• Dr. S. Das, U. Texas at Arlington, USA

Invited Speakers:

• Dr. N. Ansari, NJIT, USA
• Dr. D. Dashsharma, HP Research, USA
• Dr. D. Panda, Ohio State Univ, USA.
• Dr. P. Patra, Intel, USA
• Dr. G. Shivkumar, IITB
• Dr. S. Mishra, President, CSDC Systems, CANADA

1."Formal Models for Enterprise Engineering : Distributed Production Organizations," Tomasz Janowski, IIST/UNU, Macau
2."Soft Computing Techniques for Pattern Recognition," Basabi Chakraborty, Iwate-Perfectural University, Japan.
3."Switch Architecture & Traffic Scheduling," N. Ansari, NJIT, USA.
4."Human Computer Interface Design", Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay
5."Next Generation Middleware." Arvind W. Kiwelekar, India

General Chair:
Jayadev Misra, University of Texas at Austin, Email:      misra@cs.utexas.edu

Vice-General Chair:
Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A & M University, Email:       rabi@cs.tamu.edu

Advisory Chair:
S. P. Misra, President OITS. Email:  spmisra@iopb.res.in

                        Second Call for Papers

Authors are requested to submit original unpublished manuscripts of current research in all areas of Information Technology. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

•  Web Technology
• Multi-site Software Development
• Software-based communication system
• Strategic Impact of Information Technology
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Networking and Ubiquitous Computing
• Soft Computing
• E-Commerce and Security
• Graphics and Human-Computer Interactions
• Design and Architecture of IT Chips
• Software Fault Tolerance and Reliability
• QoS (Quality of Service) in Application Software
• Data Mining and Warehousing

Programe Chairs:

Durgamadhav Misra ECE Department, NJIT Newark, NJ 07102, USA Email:dmisra@megahertz.njit.edu Tel:+1-973-5965739 Fax:+1-973-5965680

R.K. Ghosh Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 208-016, India Email: rkg@cse.iitk.ac.in Tel:+91-512-597645 Fax:+91-512-590725

Programme Committee:

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Hamid Arbania, University of Georgia, USA  Gautam Barua, IIT Guwahati, India  A. K. Bisoi, SGIET, Sarang, India  Ranjit Biswas, IIT Kharagpur, India  Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA  D. Dashsharma, Hewlett Packard, USA  S. C. Mehta, DOE, Govt. of India  Chris George, UNU/IIST, Macau  Gerard Huet, INRIA, France  S. Sitharama Iyengar, LSU, Battonrouge, USA  K. Vidyasankar, University of New Foundland, USA  Jay N. Bhuyan, AT & T, USA  Kalyanmoy Deb, IIT Kanpur, India  PP Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India  Chitta Boral, Arizona State University,USA  Hrushikesha Mohanty, University of Hyderabad, Inida  Uttam Sarkar, IIM Calcutta  Sharat Chandran, IIT Bombay, India  PK Kalra, IIT Delhi, India  Vladik Kreinvich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Hung Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA  Jorge Lobo, Lucent Technology & Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA  Prasant Mahapatra, Iowa State University, USA  Chitta R. Das, Penn State University, USA  Ashwini Nanda, IBM TJW Lab, USA  Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia  Pranay Chowdhuri, Kuwait University  Ajay Datta, University of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA  K Naik, Carlton University Canada  Srikanta Patnaik, UCE Burla, India  Piyu Tripathy, Cisco Systems, USA  Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay, India  D Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India  Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India  A. K. Pujari, University of Hyderabad, India  JC Patra, REC Rourkela, India  D. Saha, Jadavpur University, India  NL Sarada, IIT Bombay, India  D Jankiram, IIT Chenai, India  Cheickna Sylla, NJIT, USA  Onn M. Shehory, CMU, USA

Special Topic Sessions and Workshops:
There will be several special sessions and workshops in some focussed areas. Interested organizers are requested to submit a 1-2 page proposal to the program chairs as soon as possible. Sessions may be either independent papers with a common theme or a set of closely related papers describing a system. For more information about the conference please contact one of the program chairs.

Student Poster Session:
The purpose of this session is to foster and promote work and to stimulate active student interest and participation. There will be a contest for best student paper award. Suggestions and inquiries should be sent to Organization Chair. Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to participate.

Tutorials:
Proposals are solicited for tutorials to be held during CIT2000. Proposers should submit a proposal including brief description with a brief lecture plan and vitae of presenter to either of the tutorial chairs. The tutorial proposal can be made for different levels (beginners, advanced, etc.) in emerging areas of IT. CIT2000 has accepted tutorials as has been mentioned earlier.

Tutorial Chairs:

Niranjan Tripathy, Fujitsu Microelectronics,USA  Email: niranjan@nms.fnc.fujitsu.com

Manas R. Patra, BerhampurUniversity Orissa, India.  Email: manarp@excite.com

Exhibits and sponsor presentations:
Companies and R & D labs are encouraged to sponsor the event and all correspondence in this regard can be made with organizing & finance chairs.

Organizing Chair: P. K. Mishra, KIIT, Bhubaneswar751031, India  Email: pkm@stpbh.soft.net Tel: +91-674-443271       Fax: +91-674-554464

Finance Chair: Surjya Mohanty, OCAC, Bhubaneswar , India  Emai: skm@stpbh.soft.net

Important Dates:  Submission Deadline(Paper & Tutorial): extended to July 15, 2000 Author Notification: August 18, 2000 Camera-ready copies: October 6, 2000 Registration Fees: (a) Industry             Rs.3,000/- (b) Academic/General:      Rs.1,000/- (c) OITS lifemembers (India)          Rs.800/- (d) Foreign participants             US $ 120/- (e) Student particpants  (on approval) Rs. 400/- (f) IEEE members:      10% discount on the above. Official Hotel: Swosti Plaza, Bhubaneswar;  www.swosti.com Contact Person: Mr. Sanjit Das, Email: swplaza@dte.vsnl.net.in Phone: ~91-674-585790/1 ;   Fax: ~91-674-585071 The Special CIT’2000 Room Rate agreed to  by the Hotel:Rs.2000/-(Two thousand Indian Rupees) Single or Double Occupancy. Travel Agent: Swosti Travels: swosti@cal.vsnl.net.in Phone: ~91-674-535773/534738/534058 ;  Fax: ~91-674-535781/770/784

Advisory Committee: Arvind, MIT, USA  Akhsai Aggarwal, Gujrat University,  India  Alok Agarwal, IBM-SRC, India  Dharma P. Agarwal, NCSU, USA  Amitava Bagchi, IIM-Calcutta, India  S. N. Behera, IOPB, India  G. P. Bhattacharjee, IIT-Kharagpur, India  L. N. Bhuyan, Texas A & M Univ, USA  B. N. Chatterji, IIT-Kharagpur  G. Das, Utkal University, India  J. R. Dash, Oracle Corporation, USA  P. C. Das, IIT-Kanpur, India  P. K. Dash, REC-Rourkela, India  D. Dutta Majumdar, KIIT-Bhubaneswar, India  C. E. Veni Madhavan, IISc-Bangalore, India  S. N. Maheswari, IIT-Delhi, India  Viktor Prasanna, University of California, USA  V. S. Ramamurthy, DST-GOI, India  N. Seshagiri, NIC, India  Nocio Shratori, Tohoku University, Japan  R. K. Shyamsundar, TIFR, India

About Bhubaneswar:      (http://www.orissaindia.com):
Bhubaneswar , capital of the state of Orissa, is located in the eastern part of India between Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. There are convenient air and surface transportation to Bhubaneswar. The areas around Bhubaneswar have several major attractions. The magnificent Sun Temple of Konark (known as Black Pagoda) is internationally renowned. Puri and Konark -- both within 30 miles of Bhubaneswar – have beautiful beaches. Close to Bhubaneswar is Nandankanan Zoological Park, a botanical garden that includes the largest lion and tiger safari in India. The Udayagiri and Khandagiri hills at the outskirt of the city have a network of man-made caves dating from the fourth century B.C. Presently, Bhubaneswar offers a great promise to IT industries enthused by several liberalisation policies of local government. Some nationally renowned IT industries have started operating from the city. It is the fastest growing city in the eastern region of India.

Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS): (http://www.oits.org):
OITS is a Society of Computer lovers promoting computer education and usage in Orissa. It is mainly a body of educationists and researchers who wish to help in fast growth of computers, having also a strong component of Computer Scientists outside the state and the country. It organised the International Conferences on Information Technology in December 1998 and December 1999, the Proceedings of which were published by Tata Mc.Graw Hill. Last years Proceedings was sponsored by NALCO, Bhubaneswar.

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT):    (http://www.kiit.ac.in):
KIIT is a leading educational Institution in Bhubaneswar offering B.E in Computer Science, in Information Technology, and, also a course in Master in Computer Science and Applications. It sponsored the publication of the Conference Proceedings of  1998.