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Subject: KBCS-96 Call for Participation 
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                           Call for Participation

                        INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
                      KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
                      St. Andrew's Auditorium, Bandra
                               Bombay, India
                            December 16-18, 1996
               URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html
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The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will be
held in Mumbai, India during December 16-18, 1996. The conference will act
as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of
Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. There will be a two day
conference during December 16-17, 1996 followed by one day of
post-conference tutorials on December 18, 1996.

Papers have been submitted to the conference on the following topics. About
40 papers will be presented during the conference.

      AI Applications                  AI Architectures
      Automatic Programming            Cognitive Modeling
      Expert Systems                   Foundations of AI
      Genetic Algorithms               Fuzzy Systems
      Information Retrieval            Intelligent Tutoring Systems
      Knowledge Acquisition            Knowledge Representation
      Machine Learning                 Machine Translation
      Natural Language Processing      Neural Networks
      Planning and Scheduling          Reasoning
      Robotics                         Search Techniques
      Speech Processing                Theorem Proving
      Uncertainty Handling             User Interfaces
      User Modeling                    Vision

Post-Conference Tutorials:

All tutorials will be conducted on December 18, 1996 at NCST, Juhu, Mumbai.

   * T1: Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Full Day
     Larry R Medsker, The American University, USA
   * T2: Case-based Reasoning - Full Day 
     John A Campbell, University College London, UK
   * T3: Data Mining - Half Day
     R Uthurusamy, General Motors Research Labs, Detroit, USA

Registration Fees:

     Conference
             o Students in India : Rs 850
             o Delegates from not-for-profit R&D and educational
               organisations in India : Rs 1200
             o Other Indian Delegates & : & Rs 1800
             o Delegates from Abroad & : & US $100
     Tutorials
             o Half Day & : Rs 750
             o Full Day & : Rs 1000

Programme Committee:
 
S. Arunkumar, IIT, Bombay              Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Bombay      Margaret A. Boden, U of Sussex, UK
Nick Cercone, U of Regina, Canada      B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta
R. Chandrasekar, NCST, Bombay          S. K. Goyal, GTE Labs , USA
S. Sen Gupta, TUL, Bombay              J. R. Isaac, NIIT, New Delhi
Aravind K. Joshi,                      R. A.  Kowalski, Imperial College, UK
       U of Pennsylvania, USA
H. N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore     M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore          S. Ramani, NCST, Bombay (Chair)
P. V. S. Rao, TIFR, Bombay             Patrick Saint-Dizier,
                                               U of Paul Sabatier, France
R. Sangal, IIT, Kanpur                 R. Uthurusamy, GMR, USA
M. Vidyasagar, CAIR, Bangalore
 

Organizing Committee:
 
George Arakal, NCST (Chair)  K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, NCST
P. Ravi Prakash, NCST        Durgesh D. Rao, NCST
M. Sasikumar, NCST           T. Suresh, NCST
 


  For further information and the registration details  please refer
  to the KBCS-96 home page or write to the KBCS-96 Secretariat. 

___________________________________________________________________________
Address
KBCS-96 Secretariat                      Phone :  +91 (22) 620 1606
National Centre for Software Technology  Fax :  +91 (22) 621 0139
Gulmohar Cross Rd No.  9                 E-mail :  kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in
Juhu, Bombay 400 049, India
            URL : http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html
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