SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

KBCS-2004
THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
December 19-22, 2004, Hyderabad

http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

The next international conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems
will be held in Hyderabad, in December, 2004. The conference is intended
to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the
field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. The International
Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON) will be held concurrently
at the same venue.

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Submission Deadlines

Registration of Paper: July 1, 2004
Paper Submission: July 10, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2004
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Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on
all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the
following:

Case Based Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling
Data Mining
Expert Systems
Foundations of AI
Fuzzy Logic
Genetic Algorithms
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Planning and Scheduling
Reasoning
Robotics
Search Techniques
Soft Computing
Speech Processing
Theorem Proving
Uncertainty Handling
Vision

Full papers (abstracts alone will not be accepted) must be submitted
electronically at the conference website (preferred) or by e-mail. All
submissions will be individually acknowledged by e-mail. Papers must
contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words. Papers must be no more
than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references
and appendices. Papers must be submitted in PDF/single-file HTML
format. Refereeing will be 'blind' and hence authors' names and
affiliations must be given on a separate cover sheet only.

Instructions regarding the format of submissions will are available at
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/kbcs2004.tar.gz Papers in the Natural
Language Processing area, without strong AI content may be transferred
to ICON-2004 depending on the decision of Programme Committee.

Advisory Committee
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Aravind K. Joshi, Univ. of Pennsylvania
P.V.S Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore

Programme Committee
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K.S.R Anjaneyulu, HP Labs, Bangalore
Vivek Balaraman, TRDDC, Pune
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Mumbai
P.P. Chakraborti, IIT Kharagpur
S. Kambhampati, Arizona State University
M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
Bernd Neumann, Univ. of Hamburg
Arun K. Pujari, Univ. of Hyderabad
S. Ramani, HP Labs, Bangalore
P.V.S Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai (Chair)
Durgesh D. Rao, DR Systems, Mumbai
P. Saint-Dizier, Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France
K. Samudravijaya, TIFR, Mumbai
R. Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad
M. Sasikumar, C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) (co-chair)
S. Sengupta, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai
R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (co-chair)


Contact Address
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KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9,
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049,
India

Phone: +91-22-26201606 kbcs@...
Fax: +91-22-26210139 www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

regs,
Kavitha
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KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
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Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
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