CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS National Centre for Software Technology Bombay, India December 16-18, 1996 The Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will be held in Bombay, India during December 16-18, 1996. The conference is intended to 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 Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the following: o AI Applications o AI Architectures o Artificial Life o Automatic Programming o Cognitive Modeling o Expert Systems o Foundations of AI o Genetic Algorithms o Information Retrieval o Intelligent Tutoring Systems o Knowledge Acquisition o Knowledge Representation o Machine Learning o Machine Translation o Natural Language Processing o Neural Networks o Planning and Scheduling o Reasoning o Robotics o Search Techniques o Speech Processing o Theorem Proving o Uncertainty Handling o User Interfaces o User Modeling o Vision Programme Committee S. Arunkumar, IIT, Bombay Amitava Bagchi, IIM, Calcutta Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT, Bombay Margaret A. Boden, U of Sussex, UK B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Calcutta R. Chandrasekar, NCST, Bombay S. S. Gupta, TUL, Bombay Aravind K. Joshi, U of Pennsylvania, USA Robert Kowalski, Imperial College, UK H. N. Mahabala, INFOSYS, Bangalore M. Narasimha Murthy, IISc, Bangalore R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore S. Ramani, NCST, Bombay (Chair) Patrick Saint-Dizier, U of Paul Sabatier, France R. Uthurusamy, GMR, USA M. Vidyasagar, CAIR, Bangalore Format of Submission Authors should submit their papers, not to exceed 5000 words (including figures and references) either electronically or in hard copy. Papers should be in English. Papers should include an abstract of about 100-200 words in length. 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. Hard copy submissions should be sent in triplicate. Papers in electronic form can be in any of the following formats: plain text, Postscript, Latex, Microsoft Word (RTF format) or Wordstar. Submissions in electronic form are preferred. Send papers to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below. Paper Submission Deadlines o Papers due: July 31, 1996 o Acceptance Notification: October 15, 1996 o Camera Ready Copy due: December 1, 1996 Call for Tutorials Proposals are invited for post-conference tutorials. Tutorials can be half-day or full-day, and will be held on December 18th, 1996. The proposal should be presented in the form of a 200-word abstract, one page topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content. Tutorial Submission Deadlines o Proposal Submission: July 31, 1996 o Acceptance Notification: August 31, 1996 o Complete Tutorial materials due: December 1, 1996 Send proposals to the KBCS-96 Secretariat at the address below. 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 Uday Gupte, NCST For further information 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