9th International Conference on Information Technology
Bhubaneswar, India, December 18th to 21st 2006
Organised by
Orissa Information Technology Society  (http://www.oits.org) and, ITER (http://www.iterindia.com), Bhubaneswar.
First Circular

General Chairs:
1. D Misra, njit,usa dmisra@njit.edu
2. B K Sarap, iter,bbs b_sarap@yahoo.co.in

Program Chairs:
1. S Mohanty, Un north texas,usa smohanty@cs.unt.edu
2. A Sahoo, iit,bombay sahoo@iitb.ac.in

Organising chairs:
1. A K Das, cite,bbs ajitmita@rediffmail.com
2. M Mishra, iter,bbs manoj_oec@sify.com

Tutorial chair:
1. A G Ramakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore ramkiag@ee.iisc.ernet.in
2. P Behera, uu,bbs p_behera@hotmail.com
3. P Pati, IIIT Bangalore pati@ee.iisc.ernet.in

Finance chairs:
1. A K Nayak, silicon,bbs ajit@silicon.ac.in
2. Manas Mallick, iter,bbs

Publicity Chairs:
1. P Guturu, Un north texas,usa guturu@unt.edu
2. Tripti Swarnakar, iter,bbs tripti_sarap@yahoo.com

Steering Chair:
1. C Baral, un arizona,usa chitta@gmail.com

Advisory Chair:
1. S Padhy, oits spadhy04@yahoo.co.in

Advisors:
1, S P Misra, bbs spmisra1@yahoo.com
2. R N Mahapatra, tamu,usa rabi@cs.tamu.edu
3. L N Bhuyan, usa bhuyan@cs.ucr.edu


The 9th International Conference on Information Technology (icit2006) shall be held from 18th December (Monday) to 21st December (Thursday) organised by Orissa Information Technology Society (oits) and ITER, Bhubaneswar. The conference is in cooperation with IEEE and IEEE comp society

Call for participation:
The goal of the international conference on information technology (icit2006) is to provide a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings on topics in the area of information technology.

Papers are solicited on all areas of information technology. However, papers in the following tracks will be the focus of icit2006:
  • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Communication and networking
  • Language processing
  • Security, content protection and digital rights management
  • Database and datamining
  • Application specific software and hardware systems.
Proposals for special topics:(workshops, advanced tutorials) shall be welcome. Interested organisers are requested to submit one/two page proposal to the program chairs.

Paper submissions: Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in pdf/ps (preferable) or in msword format. The first page of the manuscript must include the names, email addresses, affiliation of the authors, and an abstract of the paper followed by a few key words identifying the subject area. The size of the manuscript shall be limited to fifteen double spaced pages of size 8.5inX11in, in 12pt fonts, with an inch of margins around the text area. Papers shall be sent to either of the program chairs as an email with subject line cit2006 submission. The program chairs will advise regarding the final submission format for the accepted papers after due review. Proceedings shall be available during the conference.

Awards: There will be two oits awards:(a) Amiya K Pujari award for the best paper in the conference, (b) Narayan Misra award for the best paper from Orissa. The papers must have been presented in Conference, and for (b) above, the author who presents the paper shall be from an institution in Orissa. The awards will be decided by the program chairs and the general chairs in consultation with any other experts and grades by the reviewers.

Tutorials: Tutorial proposals are sought in all areas of information technology, and shall be addressed to the graduate students in this field. 18.12.2006 will consist of tutorials only. Tutorial proposals shall include a brief abstract of the tutorial and an outline of the topics to be covered, and may be sent to one of the tutorial chairs.

Deadlines:
Paper submission deadline: 15th June 2006
Tutorial proposal deadline: 15th June 2006
Author notification about accepted papers: 20th August 2006
Notification about accepted tutorials: 15th July 2006
Camera ready copies of accepted papers: 22nd september 2006