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The objective of this conference is to provide a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in the rapidly changing field of Information Technology. This is an occasion to have close interaction between industry professionals, Government representatives, academicians and students to share their views. We sincerely hope this interaction will steer the future direction in the growth of IT education and industry.
More than 50% of the speakers
are from abroad. There are sessions like Technical Paper Presentation,
Tutorials, Panel Discussions, Invited Talks and Poster Sessions. We expect
more than 300 participants to attend this three days conference.
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The CIT98 will be held at Hotel Prachi, Bhubaneswar. Bhubaneswar is one of the popular tourist spot located in the eastern part of India and is a growing metropolitan. There are convenient air and surface transportation to Bhubaneswar from all major cities in India. The area offers a number of fascinating activities such as world famous Black Pagoda, Konark; beautiful beaches at Puri, largest brackish water island of Asia at Chilika; wild sanctuary of Chandaka; Zoological Park at Nandankanan; and first century man-made caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri.
The venue Hotel Prachi is
only ten minutes drive from airport and five minutes from Bhubaneswar railway
station.
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A block of rooms has been
reserved at Hotel Prachi for the CIT98 participants at a discount rate.
The conference rate per night excluding taxes will be Rs. 1040.00 ($29.000)
for single room, Rs. 1480.00 ($42.00) for double room, Rs.1560.00 ($43.00)
for deluxe double and Rs 3000.00 ($85.00) for deluxe VIP suite. The extra
bed will cost Rs. 240.00 ($7.00). Please contact Dr. P. K. Misra for early
reservation at +91-674-441998 or e-mail at pkm@stpbhu.stpbh.soft.net There
are additional hotels around the site of conference which may be contacted
by you personally for booking and further information. You may visit http://www.orissaindia.com
for more on travel and local information. In case
of emergency, the Kalinga Hospital
may be contacted for immediate assistance at local number 440570 (main
switchboard). It is a NRI hospital with quality facilities and doctors
are on call for 24 hours.
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For details on domestic flight services please visit http://www.nic.in/indian-airlines/ and for train communications visit http://www.india-travel.com/table.htm
The transportation from airport
or railway station to the conference site, you can hire a taxi or three
wheeler auto-rickshaw at nominal cost. There are a number of luxury bus
services operate for local sight seeing which can be booked from the hotel
itself.
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12:30pm - 8:00 PM, Registration, Hotel Prachi, Bhubaneswar
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM Tutorial Session I
Tutorial 2 Contemporary Network Operating System Platforms
P. K Mishra, National Information Centre, New
Delhi
Tutorial 3 Designing Applications with Objects
Hrushikesha Mohanty; University of Hyderabad
Tutorial 4 Electronic Data Security
Rakesh K Tiwari and Rupesh Mane; Infotech, Bombay
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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration
8:30 AM Tea/Coffee
9:00 - 10:30 AM Inauguration
10:30 - 10:45 AM Tea Break
10:45 - 11:30 AM Keynote Address I
1. Soft Computing - A Technology of the Future,
Ram Prasad, New Mexico State University, USA
2. Advances in Satellite Communication and Information
Highways
Manoranjan Mohapatra, Hughes Software, India
3. Foundations of Fuzzy Technology
Hung T. Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA
4. Soft Computing Applications in Power Engineering
P. K. Dash, Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, India
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch Break
Tutorial 5 Predicate Calculus and its Role in Program
Design
Jayadev Misra, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Tutorial 6 Internet Protocol Version 6
Dheeraj Sanghi, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur
Tutorial 7 Web Warehouse: Design and Issues
Sanjay Madria, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Tutorial 8 Unsupervised learning in NN: Application
to Data Mining
Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectual University,
Japan
7:00 PM Cultural Program
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8:30 AM Tea/Coffee
8:45- 9:30 AM Keynote Address II
5. Understanding Method Integration Issues to Improve
the Practice of Method Customization
A. N. W. Dahanayake, Delf University of Technology, The
Netherlands
6. A Road-map for the Evaluation of Information Technology
(IT) Investments
Cheickna Sylla, H. Joseph Wen, and Durga Misra
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
7. Issues in the Creation and Maintenance of a Strategic
Information System: A Framework
Ravi Eswarapu and R. Srinivasan, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore
8. Chaos Theory and Fractal Neural Network in Information
Processing
Basabi Chakraborty & Goutam Chakraborty
Iwate Prefectual University, Japan
9. Cluster Formation for Knowledge Discovery Through
a Structure Adapting Feature Map
L. D. Alahakoon and B. Srinivasan
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Monash University, Australia
10. Algorithm for Normalizing Multivariate Data without
Distorting Patterns.
Goutam Chakraborty, Basabi Chakraborty
Iwate Prefectual University, Japan
11. A Soft Computing Approach to Character Recognition
Shamik Sural, NIIT Limited, Calcutta, India
P.K. Das, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
12. PRESERWE:P/Reprint Server on the Web
Kamalendu Mazumdar and VK Jagajeevan, Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, India
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Tea Break/ POSTER SESSION I
13. A Framework for Object-Oriented Development of
User Interfaces
B. Sateesh Kumar & Rajib Mall, Indian Institution
of Technology, Kharagpur, India
14. A Self-Stabilizing Algorithm for Analyzing Activity
Networks
Pranay Chaudhuri, Kuwait University, Kuwait
15. Indexing Spatial Data Using a Class of Linear Mapping
Functions
M. V. Ramakrishna, S. Sumanasekhara, and J. A. Thom
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
16. Intelligent Traffic Control by Timed Petrinet Model
Partha Sarakar and S. Patnaik,
University College of Engineering, Burla, India
17. On the Synthesis of an Optimal Controller for a
class of Discrete Event Processes:
S. R. Mohanty and R. Kumar, University of Kentucky, USA
18. GMTDVI - A Multi-Temporal DBMS with a Visual Query
Interface
Terttu Orci, Ying Zhang, Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden
19. Effective Clustering and Data caching in Client-Server
DBMS Architecture
Vlad S. I. Wietrzyk, Macquarie Universty, Sydney, Australia
20. Database Mining Through Inductive Logic Programming
Himanshu Gupta, Iain McLaren, and Alfred Vella
The University of Luton, England, UK
21. Data Mining in Water Distribution Networks
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa + Uninova, Portugal
22. An Algorithm for Star Schema Construction Based
on Query Examples
Pei Jian, Yang Dong-qing and Tang Shi-wei
National Laboratory on Machine Perception of China
Peking University, Beijing, China
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch Break
23. A Synchronized Retrieval and Presentation System
for Generalized Multi-Streams
Dipak Jaiswal, T. K. Nayak, and R. K. Ghosh
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
24. A Flexible Approach to Information Sharing in Water
Industries
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Ammar Benabdelkader, and L. O. Hertzberger
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
25. Modeling of Distributed Workflow Systems
Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano, and Rakesh Agarwal
Infosys, Bhubaneswar, India
26. Group Decision Support System for Multicriterion
Analysis : A case Study in India
K. Srinivasan Raju, and D. Nagesh Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
27. Internet Security Framework
Rakesh Tiwari and Rupesh Mane, Tata Infotech Limited,
Bombay, India
28. A Model for Transaction Execution in Mobile Environments
Kaleem A. Momin, and Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
29. Emerging Wireless ATM: Issues and Prospects
J. C. Patra, and R. Baliarsingh
Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, India
3:30 - 4:00 PM Tea Break/ POSTER SESSION II
4:00 - 5:15 PM Panel Discussion I: Curriculum Development in Pace with IT Growth: Indian Context
Organizer: Chitta R. Baral, University of Texas at ElPaso,
USA
Panelists: Hung Nguyen, Dheraj Sanghi, Laxman Mohanty,
A. K. Pujari, Arun Pujari, Sangram Muduli
5:30 PM GBM / Proposals on CIT'99
7:00 PM CIT98 Banquet /Cultural Program
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8:30 AM Tea/Coffee
30. Parallel and Distributed Computing using Network
of Workstations
Chitta R. Das, Pensylvania State University, College
Park, USA
31. The Ubiquitous Phased Lock Loop Updated,
Jack Klapper, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
32. Logic Design for Communication ICs
Saroj Behera,
Abrizio Inc., California, USA
33. Data Acquisition Model for Fuel-Cell
Debendra Das, University of Alaska at Fairbank, USA
10:30 - 11:00 AM Tea Break / POSTER SESSION III
34. Gravitational Clustering: A New Approach
Sukhamay Kundu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
USA
35. Distributed Verification of Network Protocols Using
PVM
Sourav K. Dutta and Debashis Saha, Jadavpur University,
India
36. Multiconnected Distributed Loop Interconnection
Networks
Nimmagadda Chalamaiah and Badrinath Ramamurthy
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
37. Analysis of Concurrent Object-Oriented Programs
Sridhar Iyer, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati;
India
S. Ramesh, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
38. Integrated Network Management of Heterogeneous
Network- Approach and Issues
Sukant K. Mohapatra and Andres Castineiras
Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA
39. High-Speed Wide Area WDM Optical Backbone Network
Design with Genetic Approach
D. Saha, and M. D. Purkayastha, Jadavpur University,
Calcutta, India
A. Mukherjee, Price-Waterhouse Associates, India
40. Issues in Designing the Next Generation Transport
Protocol
Dheeraj Sanghi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,
India
41. All Consistent Temporal Models for Hybrid Representation
of Temporal Entities
Debasis Mitra, Jackson State University, USA
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch Break
42. B-Spleen Image Statistics
B. N. Chatterji and Rutuparna Panda, Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, India
43. A Segmentation Based Block Matching Algorithm for
Video Compression
Gagan B. Rath and Anamitra Makur
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
44. Planning Crab Gaits of a Six-legged Robot Using
a GA-Fuzzy Approach
Dillip Kumar Pratihar, Kalyanmoy Deb, and Amitabha Ghosh
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
45. Map Building and Navigation by a Robotic Manipulator
S. Pattnaik, A. Konar, A.K.Mandal
Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
3:00 - 3:15 PM Tea/POSTER SESSION IV
3:15 - 4:45 PM Panel Discussion II:
Bhubaneswar: City of Temple to Information Technology
in Eastern India?
Organizer: Manas Patnaik, STP, Bhubaneswar
Moderator: Manoranjan Mohapatra
Panelists: To be added
Abstract
This session will cover the new software infrastructures
and technologies to support the solutions for the next millenium. The topics
to be covered include:
* Component assembly for software construction,
* Infrastructure for web-everything
* Server-based component logic for thin clients
* Run-time messaging and middleware for heavy-weight
TP and e-business transactions
* Application integration via corporate intranet
* Enterprise integration via extranets
* Knowledge-worker empowerment, Data Warehousing and
data mining technologies
Speaker: Jnan R. Dash, Oracle Corporation, USA
Tutorial 1 Mobile Data and Transaction Management
Technological advancements in cellular communications, wireless LAN and satellite services have led to the emergence of mobile computing and communications. The emergence of relatively sophisticated low power, low-cost and portable computing platforms such as laptops and personal digital assistants (PDA) have made possible for people to work from their offices, homes and while travelling via wireless communication network. As the technology advances, millions of users will carry a portable computer and communicator devices that uses a wireless connection to access a world wide global information network. This rapidly expanding technology poses many challenging research problems in the area of mobile database systems. The mobile users can access information independent of their physical location through wireless connections. However, accessing and manipulating information without restricting users to specific locations complicates query processing. There are some more computing constraints that make mobile database processing different from the wired distributed database computing. In this tutorial, we survey the fundamental research challenges particular to mobile database computing, review some of the proposed solutions and identify some of the upcoming research challenges.
Who can attend:
This tutorial is designed to help computer and database professionals/business analysts, such as, database and system administrators, designers, project and technical managers, people involved in planning, designing, developing, implementing and administrating of mobile data. It is also for students of computer and information science who are pursuing or planning to pursue a higher research degree. This course will also address many research problems related to mobile data management technology.
Speaker: Sanjay Madria
Tutorial 2 Contemporary Network Operating System Platforms
This tutorial discusses the trends in contemporary computing platforms. Considering the overwhelmingly popular PC based networks and applications in the present scenario, we propose to analyze various Network Operating Systems with respect to attributes such as File and Print Service, Network Service etc. Specifically we propose to compare and contrast the attributes available with four major NOS platforms namely, Novell NetWare 5, Microsoft Windows NT5, Commercial UNIX versions and Linux. Attendees of the tutorial will be in a better position to exploit the specific advantages of the particular OS they might be using. Network managers and administrators will learn and appreciate the need to integrate heterogeneous platforms already existing in their environments. The tools that we propose to discuss will help them to better manage their networks. For decision-makers we propose to work out a matrix using the functionally-performance index of each one of the above platforms.
Speaker: P. K Mishra has earned B.Tech, M. Tech and P.hD. from IIT Kanpur. Currently, he is the head of the Operating System and System Software division of the National Informatics Center, New Delhi. His group is providing platform support to over 3000 servers connected through NICNET in India. Dr. Mishra was responsible in initial setting up NIC facilities at Bhubaneswar during 1987-88. He has extensive hands on experience in operating systems and networking. He is a member of CSI and an Advisory member of IndUNIX Society.
Tutorial 3 Designing Applications with Objects
The following issues will be covered in this tutorial: Introduction, Software Engineering & Issues Involved.
Formal Method, Structured Analysis & Design, Object-Oriented method. Object Modeling Technique, Object model, Dynamic model, and functional model; Unified Modeling Language, Advanced Concepts: Contract, Pattern, software synthesis, distributed computing with Objects. Hands-on with UHOMT: A tool developed in the lab at University of Hyderabad.
Speaker: Hrushikesha Mohanty, is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, at University of Hyderabad. He has a number of publications in the area of object oriented database design to his credits in national and international proceedings. Dr. Mohanty has been invited to many international universities to deliver seminars and involved in collaborative research projects there.
Tutorial 4 Electronic Data Security
Security of electronic data transfer and the storage of E-data have become extremely important. The first part of the tutorial covers survey of the fundamentals of information security including host based and network based security issues. The various risks and vulnerabilities in data transfer such as TCP/IP stack vulnerability, O.S loopholes, packet sniffing, passwd crackers etc are explained. The second part of the tutorial deals with the protection methods such as password techniques, encryption methods both Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption, packet filtering, proxy servers and Firewalls.
Speaker-1: Rakesh K Tiwari graduated from Bombay University as an Electronics Engineer and is presently working as Sr. Software Engineer at Tata Infotech Limited (formerly Tata Unisys Limited) Bombay. His area of work has been on Unix platform; involved in Network Programming and the study and implementation of various security algorithms .He has also been involved in the development of tools for the Y2K problem.
Speaker 2 Rupesh Mane graduated from Bombay University as a Computer Science Engineer and is presently working as Sr. Software Engineer at Tata Infotech Limited (formerly Tata Unisys Limited). His area of concentration has been Network security and has implemented various security algorithms (DES, IDEA etc) and also has been involved in Security Consultancy for many Indian companies.
Tutorial 5 Predicate Calculus and its Role in Program Design
Computer Programming has been, largely, an intuitive task. Programmers are taught to understand programming in operational terms, i.e., how a computer executes a program. As the field has matured, a number of theories have been developed for designing and reasoning about computer programs in non-operational ways. Effective theories reduce the mental effort needed to design a product; they give us better assurance about the quality of programs. Such theories are indispensable for concurrent programming, where several threads of execution may co-exist.
This tutorial will show how the theories like predicate calculus are effective in specifying and designing programs.
Speaker: Jayadev Misra is a professor and holds the Regents' Chair in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from the Johns Hopkins University. He has been a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin since 1974. His research interests are in the area of concurrent programming, with emphasis on rigorous methods to improve the programming process. He has been the past editor of several journals in this area, including: Computing Surveys, Journal of the ACM, Information Processing Letters and the Formal Aspects of Computing. He is the co-author, with K. Mani Chandy, of a book, {\em Parallel Program Design: A Foundation}, Addison-Wesley, 1988.
Prof. Misra is a fellow of ACM and IEEE; he held the Guggenheim fellowship during 1988-1989.
Tutorial 6 Internet Protocol Version 6
The Internet Protocol is the glue that binds 200,000 networks and 30 million hosts together in the Internet. It is responsible for forwarding a packet from its source to its destination. With the exponential growth in the size of Internet over the last few years, IP is reaching its limit. It is estimated that by year 2005, IP addresses would exhaust. IP also has other problems, for example, its support for mobility, security, quality of service, etc., is limited.
In this tutorial, we will describe the next generation of Internet Protocol (IP version 6). The protocol has been approved to be an Internet standard after years of work in numerous IETF working groups. We will start by reviewing the motivation of IPv6. We will then describe the base protocol, which was published in
1995. This includes the addressing and routing issues, the header structure, extension headers and options, etc. We will also describe Path MTU discovery, jumbo packets, fragmentation, reassemble, neighbor discovery, address auto-configuration, QoS issues, changes to other protocols, etc. We will end the tutorial by describing the transition plan, and current status of IPv6.
Speaker: Dheeraj Sanghi did his BTech (Computer Science) from IIT Kanpur in 1986. He did his MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from University of Maryland, College Park. Since 1993, he has been in the faculty of CSE department at IIT Kanpur. His main area of research is computer networks, in particular protocols at the transport and network layer. He has been working on IPv6 for last several years. He received "AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers" in 1996, for working on IPv6. He has several publications on IPv6.
Tutorial 7 Web Warehouse: Design and Issues
The growth of the Internet has dramatically changed the way in which information is managed and accessed. The WWW is a distributed global information resource. It contains large amount of data relevant to essentially all domains of human activity. From a user's perspective, it is a broadcast medium where a wide range of up-to-date information can be obtained at low-cost. Information on the WWW is important not only to individual users, but also to business organizations especially when decision-making is concerned. These information are placed independently by different organization, thus, document containing related information may appear at different web-sites. In-house data warehousing may be no longer sufficient to support an organization's information needs. An executive would also like to know what information on the web also impacts its company. The key objective is to design and implement a web warehouse that materializes and manages useful information from the web so as to support strategic decision-making.
The aim is to build a web warehouse using database approach of managing web warehouse containing strategic information coupled from the web that may also inter-operate with conventional data warehouses. To overcome limitations of search engines and provide the user with a powerful and friendly query mechanism for accessing information on the web, the critical problem is to find effective ways to build web data models of the information of interest. Also, to provide an effective mechanism to manipulate these information of interest to garner additional, useful information. In this tutorial, we will discuss the various aspects of designing a web warehousing system.
Speaker: Sanjay Madria has received his Ph.D. in Computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1995. He is currently associated with Centre of Advanced Information Systems at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a visiting researcher at Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, USA, and University of South Australia, Australia. He has published many papers in the areas of web warehousing, data warehousing, mobile computing, object-oriented databases and nested transaction management. He is the workshop organizer and PC chair for "Internet Data Management" workshop at Florence, Italy to be held in Sept. 1999. He is serving as PC member of various database conferences and workshops.
Tutorial 8 Unsupervised learning in NN: Application to Data Mining
For many of the data mining tasks, a pre-classified training set for a well-defined problem is available. With the help of which we attempt to develop a model to predict how a new record would be classified. But with recent improved data handling and storage capacity, most of the present day data are vast multidimensional and too complex and confusing to figure out any direction of search. In such case we need a bottom-up approach of undirected search called knowledge discovery using unsupervised classification or clustering.
Among the many off-the-shelf algorithms available for clustering, neural networks (NN) are best suitable for these tasks because: They are fast. Users require little knowledge about the working of the model. It can handle categorical as well as continuous variables from wide range of problems, delivering good results even in complex domains. In this tutorial first different unsupervised learning NN models will be explained. Then I will talk about the problem of discovering patterns from data, supervised and unsupervised methods. Finally we will discuss some recent works on data mining using unsupervised NN models.
Speaker: Goutam Chakraborty did B.Sc. (Physics), B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication) and M.Tech. (Specialized in Computer Science), all from Calcutta University. After working for six years on Computerized switching systems in the Department of Telecommunication, India he came to Japan in 1990 and subsequently joined Ph.D. studies. He finished his Ph.D. in March, 1993 from Tohoku University, Japan. Presently he is an associate professor in the department of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan. His main research interests are neural networks and genetic algorithms and their applications in pattern recognition, optiization and searching problems.
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The late registration fee will be charged for those who can not register before November 21, 1998.
* Participants from non-Indian organization are to pay the fees in US dollars. Participants requesting hotel accommodation please send the amount equivalent to one nights charge as an advance together with your registration fees. You can register by e-mail at cit98@stpbh.soft.net
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