<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><h1 align="center" lang="en-IN"><font face="serif"><font style="font-size: 17pt;" size="5">NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software</font></font></h1> <p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>May 25<sup>th</sup> - 26<sup>th</sup>, 2009, Mumbai, India</b></p>
<p align="center">Organized by</p> <p align="center"><b>C-DAC, Mumbai</b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">Supported by </p> <p align="center"><b>IEEE Computer Society, Mumbai and Chennai chapters</b></p><div class="Ih2E3d"> <p align="center">
<b>Computer Society of India, Div II on Software & SIG-OSS</b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>* * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *</b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="justify">
<span lang="en-IN"><br></span><span lang="en-GB">NCOSS - 2009 is being
conceived of as a forum to bring together the various groups working on
developing Open Source Applications catering to specific domains in the
ICT world, including education, health, accessibility, localisation,
e-commerce, disaster management, expert systems, machine learning, etc.
A number of high quality software solutions are available in many of
these areas, for example, SugarCRM, Koha, Drupal, Moodle, Sahana,
CollabCAD, etc. Work on these systems require a combination of domain
knowledge and development expertise. Much of the public awareness in
open source is focussed on desktop, operating system and general
productivity tools. With this background, NCOSS-09 has chosen to focus
on the layer above this, bringing together groups working on various
application domains.</span></p>
<p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify" lang="en-GB">The
conference will present experiences in deploying FOSS applications,
comparative studies among competing software solutions, efforts in
adapting and localising FOSS applications, development of new
applications, etc. The conference will consist of the following:</p>
<ul type="disc"><li><p align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Invited talks by experts from India and abroad</span> </p> </li><li><p align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Presentation of contributed papers selected based on refereeing by a panel of referees</span> </p>
</li><li><p align="justify" lang="en-GB">Exhibition by industry and academia </p> </li><li><p align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Pre conference Tutorials (on May 24</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">th</span></sup> <span lang="en-GB">)</span> </p>
</li><li><p align="justify" lang="en-GB">Panel discussion </p> </li></ul> </div><p align="justify"> Papers
are invited on the topics listed below. All papers will be subject to
external refereeing and acceptance will be subject to referee
evaluation. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. We also invite proposals for tutorials.</p>
<p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>*** TOPICS ***</b></p><div class="Ih2E3d"> <p lang="en-GB"><i><b>Other application areas may also be considered.</b></i></p> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="590"> <col width="290"> <col width="290"> <tbody><tr valign="top">
<td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Accessibility</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Machine Learning and Data Mining</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top">
<td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Indian Language Computing </p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">e-Health</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top">
<td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Localisation</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Knowledge Management</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top">
<td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">e-Learning</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Collaboration Technologies</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top">
<td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Information Extraction and Retrieval</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Content Management</p> </td>
</tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Disaster Management </p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">e-Commerce</p> </td>
</tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">e-Governance</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>
<p align="center" lang="en-IN"><br><br> </p> </div><div class="Ih2E3d"><p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>*** INSTRUCTIONS ***</b></p> <ul type="disc"><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify" lang="en-GB">Papers
must report original work carried out by the authors. The work can
include enhancing existing Open Source applications for specific
requirements, development of new solutions and comparative analysis of
competing solutions. Direct survey or overview papers are not
acceptable. </p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Length should not exceed 10 pages of A4 size in length (approx. 5000 words) including figures, etc.</span> </p> </li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify">
<span lang="en-GB">Papers should be in English.</span> </p> </li><li><p align="justify" lang="en-GB">An
abstract of about 100-200 words and the area(s) under which the paper
can be categorized, must be included with the paper. </p>
</li></ul> <p align="justify" lang="en-GB">Papers
exceeding the specified length are subject to rejection without review.
Since reviewing will be blind, the author names and affiliations along
with the main area of the paper should be given only on a separate
cover sheet. Papers should be in one of the following formats: PDF, RTF
or ODT. </p>
<p align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Papers may be submitted via the web at the URL <a href="http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in/" target="_blank">http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in</a>.A
template paper is also made available at the URL for formatting
reference. Those who are unable to make electronic submissions may send
four copies of the paper to the address listed below.</span></p>
</div><p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***</b></p><div><div><span id="q_11e49599a4f220ad_11" class="WQ9l9c">- Hide quoted text -</span></div><div class="Ih2E3d"> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="588"> <col width="288"> <col width="290"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td width="288"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">
Ramakrishnan S., C-DAC, Pune (chair)</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Chakravarti A. K, DIT, Delhi</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="288"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">
Zia Saquib, C-DAC, Mumbai</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Sivakumar G, IIT, Mumbai</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="288"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">
Sasikumar M, C-DAC, Mumbai</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Venkatesh Hariharan, RedHat, Mumbai </p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="288"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">
Mohan H R, The Hindu, Chennai</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,UNU-MERIT, Netherlands</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="288"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">
Krishnan C N, AU-KBC, Chennai </p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Gora Mohanty, Sarai, Delhi </p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="288"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">
Rajagopal M R, C-DAC, Chennai</p> </td> <td width="290"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Dravida Seetharam, IBM, Bangalore</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.18cm;" align="left" lang="en-GB">
<font style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><i><b>(This list is partial)</b></i></font></p> <p> </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *</b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Submission of papers</p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">February 15, 2009</p> </td>
</tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Acceptance intimation</p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">March 15, 2009</p> </td>
</tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Camera ready due</p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">April 15, 2009</p> </td> </tr>
<tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Tutorial Proposals due</p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">March 15, 2009</p> </td> </tr>
<tr valign="top"> <td height="5" width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">Tutorial Acceptance intimation</p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;">April 15, 2009</p>
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p align="justify"> </p> <p> </p> <p align="center" lang="en-IN"><b>* * * CONTACT DETAILS * * * </b> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p lang="en-IN"><b>Address :</b></p> <p lang="en-GB">NCOSS Conference Secretariat</p>
<p lang="en-IN">CDAC-Mumbai (formerly NCST), Rain Tree Marg, Sector-7, </p> <p lang="en-IN">Near Bharti Vidyapeeth, Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,</p> <p lang="en-IN">CBD Belapur, </p> <p><span lang="en-IN">Navi</span> <span lang="en-IN">Mumbai - 400614</span></p>
<p lang="en-IN">Maharashtra, India</p> <p> </p> <p><span lang="en-IN"><b>E-mail</b></span><span lang="en-IN">: <a href="mailto:ncoss@cdacmumbai.in" target="_blank">ncoss@cdacmumbai.in</a></span></p> <p><span lang="en-IN"><b>Web</b></span><span lang="en-IN">: <a href="http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in/" target="_blank">http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in</a></span></p>
</div></div><p><span lang="en-IN"><b>Ph</b></span><span lang="en-IN">.: +91 - 22 - 27565303<br></span></p><div class="Ih2E3d"><span lang="en-IN"><b>Fax</b></span><span lang="en-IN">: +91 - 22 - 27560004 (on request)</span></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p lang="en-IN">
With warm regards,</p> <p lang="en-IN"><b>NCOSS team</b></p></td></tr></table><br>
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