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You are still in time to submit papers to NCOSS-2009 in order to
share your work in the tracks mentioned in the CFP below. PAPER
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 February 2009
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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 ***
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
G Nagarjuna, HBCSE, Mumbai, India







* * * 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