KBCS 2002--Deadline extension (to August 30th).

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@cotopaxi.eas.asu.edu>]

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                                  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
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Note:
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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.

KBCS is the premium International AI Conference held in India.
Don't miss out on it!
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        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unpublished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:
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    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:
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    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:
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    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)