KBCS 2002
        INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED
                      COMPUTER SYSTEMS
              Mumbai, India, December 18 - 21, 2002
              http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2002

                      Second Call for Papers
                         +++++++++++++++

The KBCS series of conferences, held every two years,
is intended to act as a forum for promoting
interaction among researchers in the field of
Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. The
schedule includes  a three-day conference on KBCS from
Dec 19-21, and one day of tutorials,  on the 18th.
Papers are invited on substantial, original and
unpublished  research on all aspects of Artificial
Intelligence, including, but not  limited to those
given below.
         This year, ICON-2002, International
Conference on Natural Language Processing, will be
held concurrently with KBCS-2002. Authors may,
therefore, choose to submit papers focusing on Natural
Language  Processing (NLP) to ICON-2002. KBCS-2002
will also consider NLP papers  provided they have
substantial AI content. The programme committee may
shift some papers between these two conferences based
on content and  suitability.

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


   Format of Submission:
   ---------------------
Papers should be in English, not exceeding 5000 words
(including  figures and references). Papers should
include an abstract of about  100-200 words. 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. Authors should also
exercise care to see that there aue no indirect clues
to the identity of the  author or the institution
(e.g. self-citations reading in our earlier
   work cited below' ... etc)
       Submissions should be in electronic form and
can be in any of the  following formats: PDF, Latex or
Microsoft Word (RTF format). Papers  may be submitted
by E-mail or via the web at the URL given. Those who
are unable to make electronic submissions may send
four hard copies of  the paper. Papers selected for
the conference will be published in the
proceedings.

   Call for Tutorials:
   -------------------
Proposals are invited for conference tutorials.
Tutorials can be of  half-day or full-day duration.
The proposal should be presented in the  form of a
200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the
content  and bio-data of the speakers, including their
qualifications relating to the tutorial content.


   Submission Deadlines:
   ---------------------
   Papers
   Due:                             July 31, 2002
   Acceptance Notification:         September 30, 2002
   Camera Ready Copy Due:           October 30, 2002

   Tutorial Proposals
   Due:                             August 30, 2002
   Acceptance Notification:         September 15, 2002
   Materials Due:                   November 25, 2002
   Address:
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   KBCS-2002 Secretariat
   National Centre for Software Technology
   Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9
   Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India
   Phone: +91-22-6201606
   Fax: +91-22-6210139
   E-mail: [log in to unmask]

   For ICON-2002:
   http://www.iiit.net/conferences/icon2002.html
   E-mail: [log in to unmask]

   Advisory Committee:
   -------------------
   Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
   J.R. Isaac,Professor Emeritus, IIT Mumbai
   Aravind K. Joshi, U of Pennsylvania, USA
   H.N. Mahabala, Indian Inst. of IT, Bangalore
   R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore
   P.V.S. Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd., Mumbai

   Programme Committee:
   --------------------
   K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, ESN Tech Ltd., Hyderabad
   Vivek Balaraman, TRDDC, Pune
   Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Mumbai
   PP Chakraborti, IIT Kharagpur
   B.B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta
   R. Chandrasekar, Microsoft, USA
   S. Kambhampati, Arizona State Univ, USA
   M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
   Bernd Neumann, Univ Hamburg, Germany
   Arun K Pujari, Univ of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
   S. Ramani, HP India, Bangalore
   P.V.S. Rao, TataInfotech, Mumbai (Chair)
   Durgesh D. Rao, NCST, Mumbai
   P. Saint-Dizier, U of Paul Sabatier, France
   K. Samudravijaya, TIFR, Mumbai
   R. Sangal, IIIT, Hyderabad
   M. Sasikumar, NCST, Mumbai (Co-chair)
   S. Sen Gupta, Tata Infotech, Mumbai
   R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (Co-chair)

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