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K B C S 2004
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Hyderabad, India.

Call for Tutorial Participation
[http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/pretutorials.shtml]

As a part of KBCS-2004, an international conference on Knowledge Based Computer
Systems, two full day and one half day pre-conference tutorials are being held
on December 19, 2004.

The tutorials for the conference are:
1. Speech Recognition and Synthesis [Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
- Prof. Samudravijaya K., TIFR, Mumbai, India.
- Mr. S. P. Kishore, IIIT Hyderabad, India and LTI CMU, USA.
- Dr. R. N. V. Sitaram HP Labs, Bangalore, India.

2. Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data Mining
[Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
- Dr. V. Sunderarajan, CDAC Pune, India.
- Dr. V. K. Jayaraman, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

3. EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and Intelligence of
Autonomous Systems [Duration: Half Day]

Speaker:
- Prof. Mircea Gh. Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New
Zealand.

Note: A brief description of each tutorial is available below after the contact
information.

Tutorial Venue:
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IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, A.P., India.

Registration Fee details:
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Half-day tutorial:
* Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 1500/- (50$)
* Other institutions : Rs. 2500/- (80$)
* Students : Rs 500/- (25$)

Full-day tutorial:
* Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 2200/- (70$)
* Others institutions : Rs. 3500/- (120$)
* Students : Rs 800/- (40$)

For registration details, please visit the
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/registration.shtml

Contact Information:
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KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur,
Navi Mumbai - 400 614, INDIA.
E-mail: kbcs@...
Phone: +91-22-27560013
Fax: +91-22-27560004
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

Tutorial 1: Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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The tutorial will introduce two important aspects of human machine interaction
through voice: Automatic speech recognition and Text-to-speech systems. The
technical tutorial, spanning in two parts, will cover fundamentals as well as
techniques for building both speech recognition systems and synthesis systems.

This will enable participants to gain sound knowledge of speech signal
processing as well as design of speech recognition and speech synthesis systems.
It will also put them into position of building their own recognition and
synthesis systems.

About the Speakers:

Prof. Samudravijaya K. has been working in the area of spoken language
processing at TIFR, Mumbai. His research interests include robust speech
recognition, speaker verification, speech database and cursive script
recognition. He received his Ph.D. degree from Mumbai University in 1986.

Mr. S. P. Kishore has been working in the area of speech processing at IIIT
Hyderabad and also at LTI, Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests
include speech processing and machine learning. He received MS (by Research)
degree from IIT Madras in 2001 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at LTI,
Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Sitaram is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in Language
Technologies and Applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Communication
Engineering, specialized in "Speech recognition", from IISc, Bangalore. His
interests include speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog systems
and real time implementation of these in embedded and telephony platforms.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut1.shtml

Tutorial 2: Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data
Mining
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The tutorial would cover the Monte Carlo algorithms, genetic algorithms and ant
miner with support vector machine in detail. Emphasis will be given on learning
and using them for search, optimization and data mining purposes. A number of
examples and illustrations will be made including Bioinformatics applications
like protein structure prediction, classification of protein structures,
Chemoinformatics applications like Quantitative Structure Activity
Relationships, Medical diagnosis, and abnormality & fault detection in chemical
processes.

About the speakers:

Dr. Sunderarajan is the group coordinator of Scientific and Engg. Computing
Group at CDAC, Pune, India. He has a Ph. D. in Physics from Anna University. He
has been working in the field of protein structure prediction using GA and
electronic structure calculations for past several years and has published about
45 paper in international journals.

Dr. Jayaraman is a senior Scientist at the Chemical Engineering and Process
Development division of the National Chemical Laboratory. His research interests
include mathematical modeling of chemically reacting systems; Process
Optimization, Control & Monitoring; Modeling and Design of Chemical &
Bioreactors; and application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to
Bioinformatics and chemically reacting systems.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut2.shtml

Tutorial 3: EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and
Intelligence of Autonomous Systems
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The tutorial will discuss Framework for Evolutionary Computation (EC) and its
application as Evolvable Hardware (EHW). It will cover EHW definition, general
considerations and EHW classification, technology support of EHW and advanced
type of FPGA, hardware architectures with intrinsic EC like embryological
architectures, emergent functionality architectures, evolvable fault tolerant
systems, Parallel evolvable architectures of Higuchi type, and evolvable
architectures on functional level. The tutorial will also cover application of
GA for design of EHW design elements with local improvement of chromosomes
applied for optimization of evolved configuration in RLD (Reconfiguration Logic
Devices) block of EHW architectures.

About the speaker:

Prof. Negoita received his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of
Bucharest (TUB), Romania in 1985. He is currently a Professor in The School of
Information Technology, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New Zealand
and the Director of Centre for Computational Intelligence at WelTec. His
research interests and specializations includes Intelligent Hybrid Systems,
Evolvable Hardware, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Genetic algorithms. He is a
member of KES Executive Committee, an Associate editor of KES International
Journal, and an Associate editor of International Journal of Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut3.shtml