CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference on Information Technology

Bhubaneswar, India

December 20-22 , 1999.

Paper Submission Deadline Extended to July 20, 1999
Accelerate....It will pay off.

Contents:

  1. Theme
  2. Topics
  3. Paper Submission Deadlines
  4. Program Chairs
  5. Tutorials
  6. General Chairs
  7. Vice-General Chair
  8. Program Committe
  9. Tutorial Chairs
  10. Organizing Chairs
  11. CITEXPO99
  12. Exhibition Chairs
  13. About Bhubaneswar

Theme:

The Conference on Information Technology ( CIT ) provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. The first conference CIT'98 was held in Bhubaneswar, December 21-23, 1998 with active participations of academia as well IT industries. The details of this conference may be found in http://www.oits.org/icit98. For CIT'99 authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work on all aspects of Information Technology.

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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Soft Computing

* AI, robotics and computer vision

* Software engineering

* Strategic Impact of Information Technology

* Parallel and Distributed Computing

* Networking and Ubiquitous Computing

* Multi-Agent Systems

* Object Oriented Programming

* Graphics and Human-Computer Interactions

* E-commerce and data mining

* Design and Architecture of IT Chips

There will be several special sessions in some focussed areas. Interested organizers are requested to submit a 1-2 page proposal to the program chairs by March 30, 1999.

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Paper Submissions

Authors are requested to submit four (4) copies of the full manuscript (including abstract, keywords, email address) and to either of the following program chairs. The size of the submissions are limited to 6000 words and people with access to the Internet must submit it as 6 pages in one of the formats in the site http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/macros-link.html.
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Program Chairs:

Chitta Baral
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
chitta@cs.utep.edu
Phone/Fax: 915-747-6952/5030

Hrushikesha Mohanty
Department of Computer & Information Sciences University of Hyderabad,
Central University
P.O. Hyderabad 500 046 India
hmcs@uohyd.ernet.in
Fax: 91-40-3010 120 & 3010 145.

Authors are recommended to submit papers electronically, but hard copy submission is acceptable.

Submission Deadline: June 20, 1999.  NOW EXTENDED TO JULY 20,1999.
Author Notification: September 9, 1999.
Camera-ready copies: October 9, 1999.

Symposium proceedings will be published and available before the conference. For more information about the conference please write to one of the program chairs.

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Tutorials

CIT '98 organized tutorials on different areas like mobile data and transaction management, electronic data security, designing applications with objects, Internet protocol (version 6), web warehouse design, etc. Keeping the importance of such tutorials in view, CIT'99 invites proposals from researchers and practitioners to hold tutorials at different levels (beginners, advanced, etc.) in emerging areas of IT.

Tutorial proposal submission deadline: June 20, 1999.
Acceptance notification: September 9, 1999
Camera ready copy October 9, 1999.

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General Chairs

Laxmi Bhuyan, Texas A & M University, USA
bhuyan@cs.tamu.edu

G. S. Mishra, OSEDC, Bhubaneswar, India
gsmishra@hotmail.com

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Vice-General Chair

Rabi Mahapatra, Texas A & M University
rabi@cs.tamu.edu

Program Committee (Preliminary List)

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hamid Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
Jay N. Bhuyan, Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA
(Area Chair: Genetic Algorithms)
P.K. Biswas, IIT Kharagpur, India Sharat Chandran, IIT Mumbai
(Area Chair: Graphics and Vision)
Pranay Chaudhuri, Kuwait University
Chitta R. Das, Penn State University, USA
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
Debendra Dashsharma, Hewlett Packard, USA
Chris George UNU/IIST, Macau Gerard Huet, France
Gerard Huet, INRIA, France
S. Sitharama Iyengar, LSU, Battonrouge, USA
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
(area chair: Interval Computations and Soft Computing)
Jorge Lobo, Lucent Technology and Univ of Illinois at Chicago
(area chair: Knowledge Representation)
Prasant Mahapatra, Iowa State University
(area chair: Parallel and distributed Computing)
D. Mitra, Jacksun State University
Ashwini Nanda, IBM T. J. Watson Laboratory, NY, USA
Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia
Hung Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA
K. Naik Univ. of Aizu, Japan
(Area Chair: Networking)
Lalit M. Pattnaik, IISc., Bangalore, India
Srikanta Pattnaik, UCE Burla, India
Arun K. Pujari, University of Hyderabad, India
(Area Chair: Data Warehousing and Data mining)
J. C. Patra, REC Rourkela, India
D. Saha, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
Ashok Samal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT Kanpur, India
N. L. Sarada, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
(Area Chair: Software Engineering)
Uttam Sarkar, IIM Calcutta (area chair: E-commerce)
M. R. Satapathy, IIT Guahati, India
Onn M. Shehory, Carnegie Mellon, USA
(Area Chair: Multi-agent systems)
Cheickna Sylla, NJIT, USA
(Area Chair: Strategic Impact of Information Technology)
Niranjan Tripathy, Fujitsu Microelectronics, USA
K. Vidyasankar, Univ. of NewFoundland, Canada
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Tutorial Chairs

Durga Mishra , NJIT, USA
dmisra@megahertz.njit.edu

Ratan K. Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India
rkg@cse.iitk.ac.in

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Organization Chairs

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Utkal University, India
m_sanghamitra@hotmail.com

Manas Patnaik, STPI, Bhubaneswar
manas@stpbh.soft.net
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CITEXPO99

The EXPO99 is being organized to bring the industrial products together during CIT99. Interested industries are invited to participate in CITEXPO99 and contact the Exhibition Chairs for further details.
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Exhibition Chairs

Mr. P C Sahoo, DoT, Bhubaneswar, India
p_sahu@hotmail.com

Somdutt Behura,Houston,
Somdutt.Behura@Airliquide.com

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About Bhubaneswar:

The state of Orissa, of which Bhubaneswar is the capital, is located in the eastern part of India between Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. There are convenient air and surface transportation to Bhubaneswar. The area offers a number of fascinating activities for visitors: many historic shrines built by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains; a range of handicrafts and handwoven textiles, and opportunities for enjoying the distinctive art forms of this region. The areas around Bhubaneswar have several major attractions. The magnificent Sun Temple of Konark (known to generations of sailors as Black Pagoda) is internationally renowned. Puri and Konark -- both within 30 miles of Bhubaneswar -- have beautiful beaches, and the Chilika Lake (about 60 miles from Bhubaneswar), the largest brackish water inland lake in Asia, abounds with migratory birds and many varieties of fish. Close to Bhubaneswar is the Chandaka Forest, a sanctuary for wild elephants, and 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 first century B.C. Presently, Bhubaneswar offers a great promise to IT industries enthused by several liberalisation policies of local government. Some nationaly renowned IT industries have started operating from the city. It is the fastest growing city in the eastern coast of India.

For more information:
    http://www.orissaindia.com,
    http://www.orissa-tourism.com

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