K B C S-98

                               2nd Call for Papers

                         INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

                      KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
                   National Centre for Software Technology
                                Mumbai, India
                             December 17-18, 1998

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO
AUGUST 30, 1998


The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will
be held in Mumbai, India during December 17-18, 1998.  The conference
is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among
researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence in India and
abroad.  There will be a one and a half day conference during December
17-18, 1998 followed by a half day of post-conference tutorials on
December 18, 1998.

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research
on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited
to the following:

o AI Applications           o AI Architectures
o Automatic Programming     o Cognitive Modeling
o Expert Systems            o Foundations of AI
o Genetic Algorithms        o Information Retrieval
o Intelligent Agents        o Intelligent Tutoring Systems
o Knowledge Acquisition     o Knowledge Management
o Knowledge Representation  o Machine Learning
o Machine Translation       o Natural Language Processing
o Neural Networks           o Planning and Scheduling
o Reasoning                 o Robotics
o Search Techniques         o Speech Processing
o Theorem Proving           o Uncertainty Handling
o Vision

Programme Committee

K. S. R. Anjaneyulu, NCST, Mumbai
S. Arunkumar, IIT, Mumbai
Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Mumbai
Nick Cercone, U of Regina, Canada
B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta
R. Chandrasekar, U of Pennsylvania, USA
S. K. Goyal, GTE Labs , USA
S. Sen Gupta, Tata Infotech, Mumbai
J. R. Isaac, NIIT, New Delhi
Aravind K. Joshi, U of Pennsylvania, USA
H. N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore
M. Narasimha Murthy, IISc, Bangalore
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore
S. Ramani, NCST, Mumbai (Chair)
P. V. S. Rao, TIFR, Mumbai
P. Saint-Dizier, U of Paul Sabatier, France
R. Sangal, IIT, Kanpur
R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (Co-chair)
M. Vidyasagar, CAIR, Bangalore*
* to be confirmed

Organizing Committee

George Arakal, NCST (Chair)
Dhawal Bhagwat, NCST
S. Karthik, NCST
Parag A. Mahadane, NCST
Mandar Padhye, NCST
P. Ravi Prakash, NCST
Durgesh D. Rao, NCST
M. Sasikumar, NCST
Puneet Srivastava, NCST
Format of Submission

Authors should submit their papers, not to exceed 5000 words
(including figures and references) either electronically or in hard
copy.  Papers should be in English.  Papers should include an abstract
of about 100-200 words in length.  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.

Those submitting by hard copy should send four copies of the paper.
Papers in electronic form can be in any of the following formats:
plain text, Postscript, PDF, Latex, Microsoft Word (RTF format) or
Wordstar.  Submissions in electronic form are preferred.

Papers will be selected for presentation in the conference, based on
international refereeing.  Proceedings of the conference consisting of
papers selected for presentation, will be published by NCST and will
be available internationally.  Abstracts of presented papers will be
available on the web.  A few selected papers will be published in a
special issue of Vivek.

Call for Tutorials

Proposals are invited for post-conference tutorials.  Tutorials will
be half-day and will be held on December 18th, 1998.  The proposal
should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page
topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their
qualifications relating to the tutorial content.

Send papers and tutorial proposals to the KBCS-98 Secretariat.

Submission Deadlines

Papers:
  o Due:                      August 30, 1998
  o Acceptance Notification:  October 10, 1998
  o Camera Ready Copy due:    November 15, 1998

Tutorial Proposals:
  o Due:                      August 30, 1998
  o Acceptance Notification:  September 15, 1998
  o Materials due:            November 25, 1998

Registration Fees:
  Conference:
    Students                       :  Rs 600
    Delegates from not-for-profit
    organisations                  :  Rs 800
    Other Delegates                :  Rs 1200

  Tutorials:
    Half Day  :  Rs 400

All payments should be made by a crossed cheque or draft, payable to
National Centre for Software Technology.

For further information please refer to the KBCS-98 home page or write
to the KBCS-98 Secretariat.

Address

KBCS-98 Secretariat
National Centre for Software Technology
Gulmohar Cross Rd No.  9
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India
URL: http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs98/
Phone:  +91 (22) 620 1606
Fax:  +91 (22) 621 0139
E-mail:  kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in