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NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software
May 25th - 26th, 2009, Mumbai, India

Organized by

C-DAC, Mumbai



Supported by

IEEE Computer Society, Mumbai and Chennai chapters

Computer Society of India, Div II on Software & SIG-OSS





* * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *




NCOSS - 2009 is being conceived of as a forum to bring together the
various groups working on developing Open Source Applications catering
to specific domains in the ICT world, including education, health,
accessibility, localisation, e-commerce, disaster management, expert
systems, machine learning, etc. A number of high quality software
solutions are available in many of these areas, for example, SugarCRM,
Koha, Drupal, Moodle, Sahana, CollabCAD, etc. Work on these systems
require a combination of domain knowledge and development expertise.
Much of the public awareness in open source is focussed on desktop,
operating system and general productivity tools. With this background,
NCOSS-09 has chosen to focus on the layer above this, bringing
together groups working on various application domains.



The conference will present experiences in deploying FOSS
applications, comparative studies among competing software solutions,
efforts in adapting and localising FOSS applications, development of
new applications, etc. The conference will consist of the following:

Invited talks by experts from India and abroad

Presentation of contributed papers selected based on refereeing by a
panel of referees

Exhibition by industry and academia

Pre conference Tutorials (on May 24th )

Panel discussion

Papers are invited on the topics listed below. All papers will be
subject to external refereeing and acceptance will be subject to
referee evaluation. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. We also invite proposals for tutorials.

*** TOPICS ***

Other application areas may also be considered.

Accessibility
Machine Learning and Data Mining

Indian Language Computing
e-Health

Localisation
Knowledge Management

e-Learning
Collaboration Technologies

Information Extraction and Retrieval
Content Management

Disaster Management
e-Commerce

e-Governance







*** INSTRUCTIONS ***

Papers must report original work carried out by the authors. The work
can include enhancing existing Open Source applications for specific
requirements, development of new solutions and comparative analysis of
competing solutions. Direct survey or overview papers are not acceptable.

Length should not exceed 10 pages of A4 size in length (approx. 5000
words) including figures, etc.

Papers should be in English.

An abstract of about 100-200 words and the area(s) under which the
paper can be categorized, must be included with the paper.

Papers exceeding the specified length are subject to rejection without
review. Since reviewing will be blind, the author names and
affiliations along with the main area of the paper should be given
only on a separate cover sheet. Papers should be in one of the
following formats: PDF, RTF or ODT.

Papers may be submitted via the web at the URL
http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in.A template paper is also made available at
the URL for formatting reference. Those who are unable to make
electronic submissions may send four copies of the paper to the
address listed below.

*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***

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Ramakrishnan S., C-DAC, Pune (chair)
Chakravarti A. K, DIT, Delhi

Zia Saquib, C-DAC, Mumbai
Sivakumar G, IIT, Mumbai

Sasikumar M, C-DAC, Mumbai
Venkatesh Hariharan, RedHat, Mumbai

Mohan H R, The Hindu, Chennai
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,UNU-MERIT, Netherlands

Krishnan C N, AU-KBC, Chennai
Gora Mohanty, Sarai, Delhi

Rajagopal M R, C-DAC, Chennai
Dravida Seetharam, IBM, Bangalore




(This list is partial)





* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *



Submission of papers
February 15, 2009

Acceptance intimation
March 15, 2009

Camera ready due
April 15, 2009

Tutorial Proposals due
March 15, 2009

Tutorial Acceptance intimation
April 15, 2009






* * * CONTACT DETAILS * * *





Address :

NCOSS Conference Secretariat

CDAC-Mumbai (formerly NCST), Rain Tree Marg, Sector-7,

Near Bharti Vidyapeeth, Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,

CBD Belapur,

Navi Mumbai - 400614

Maharashtra, India



E-mail: ncoss@...

Web: http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in

Ph.: +91 - 22 - 27565303
Fax: +91 - 22 - 27560004 (on request)





With warm regards,

NCOSS team