kbcs98 2nd call papers k b c s98 2nd call papers international conference knowledge based computer systems national centre software technology mumbai india december 1718 1998 deadline submission papers extended august 30 1998 international conference knowledge based computer systems held mumbai india december 1718 1998 conference intended act forum promoting interaction among researchers field artificial intelligence india abroad one half day conference december 1718 1998 followed half day postconference tutorials december 18 1998 papers invited substantial original unpublished research aspects artificial intelligence including limited following ai applications ai architectures automatic programming cognitive modeling expert systems foundations ai genetic algorithms information retrieval intelligent agents intelligent tutoring systems knowledge acquisition knowledge management knowledge representation machine learning machine translation natural language processing neural networks planning scheduling reasoning robotics search techniques speech processing theorem proving uncertainty handling vision programme committee k r anjaneyulu ncst mumbai arunkumar iit mumbai amitava bagchi iim calcutta pushpak bhattacharya iit mumbai nick cercone u regina canada b b chaudhuri isi calcutta r chandrasekar u pennsylvania usa k goyal gte labs usa sen gupta tata infotech mumbai j r isaac niit new delhi aravind k joshi u pennsylvania usa h n mahabala infosys bangalore narasimha murthy iisc bangalore r narasimhan cmc bangalore ramani ncst mumbai chair p v rao tifr mumbai p saint dizier u paul sabatier france r sangal iit kanpur r uthurusamy gmr labs usa co chair vidyasagar cair bangalore confirmed organizing committee george arakal ncst chair dhawal bhagwat ncst karthik ncst parag mahadane ncst mandar padhye ncst p ravi prakash ncst durgesh rao ncst sasikumar ncst puneet srivastava ncst format submission authors submit papers exceed 5000 words including figures references either electronically hard copy papers english papers include abstract 100200 words length papers outside specified length subject rejection without review since reviewing blind authors names affiliations along main area paper given separate cover sheet submitting hard copy send four copies paper papers electronic form following formats plain text postscript pdf latex microsoft word rtf format wordstar submissions electronic form preferred papers selected presentation conference based international refereeing proceedings conference consisting papers selected presentation published ncst available internationally abstracts presented papers available web selected papers published special issue vivek call tutorials proposals invited postconference tutorials tutorials halfday held december 18th 1998 proposal presented form 200 word abstract one page topical outline content description proposers qualifications relating tutorial content send papers tutorial proposals kbcs98 secretariat submission deadlines papers due august 30 1998 acceptance notification october 10 1998 camera ready copy due november 15 1998 tutorial proposals due august 30 1998 acceptance notification september 15 1998 materials due november 25 1998 registration fees conference students rs 600 delegates notfor profit organisations rs 800 delegates rs 1200 tutorials half day rs 400 payments made crossed cheque draft payable national centre software technology information please refer kbcs98 home page write kbcs98 secretariat address kbcs98 secretariat national centre software technology gulmohar cross rd 9 juhu mumbai 400 049 india url http konark ncst ernet kbcs kbcs98 phone 91 22 620 1606 fax 91 22 621 0139 e mail kbcs konark ncst ernet